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July 15, 2013

The Middle Way of Work

Over at Think Christian, I reflect on an “authentically Christian” view of work, which takes into account its limitations, failings, and travails, as well as its promises, prospects, and providential foundations. Continue Reading...

June 21, 2013

Fr. Michael Butler: Orthodoxy and Natural Law

Today at Acton University, Fr. Michael Butler gave an engaging lecture on the subject of Orthodoxy and natural law. Despite the contemporary ambivalence among many Orthodox (if not hostility) toward natural law, Fr. Continue Reading...

June 05, 2013

The Dark Ages – Not So Dark, Really

The Dark Ages: that time when people knew the Earth was flat, the civilization of the Western Roman Empire had collapsed, and people basically sat around waiting for something – anything – good to happen. Continue Reading...

May 30, 2013

Augustine, Aquinas, and Fusionism

As I noted previously, I’ve been involved this month in a panel discussion over at Cato Unbound on the issue of “Conservative-Libertarian Fusionism.” My two most recent contributions to the discussion phase focus on possible resources for the question that can be gleaned from Augustine and Aquinas. Continue Reading...

May 13, 2013

Gerson on the Common Good

Michael J. Gerson’s encomium to Jim Wallis’ book on the common good includes this curious paragraph: Nearly every Christian tradition of social ethics encompasses two sorts of justice. The first is procedural justice: giving people what they deserve under contracts and the law. Continue Reading...

May 02, 2013

No Executive Is An Island

As Michael Novak observes in The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism, “A successful corporation is frequently based upon the principle of subsidiarity. According to this principle, concrete decisions must be made on the level closest to the concrete reality. Continue Reading...

April 10, 2013

Samuel Gregg: What is Social Justice?

Update: Acton now has a PDF of this article available. You can download a color or black and white copy of it here: Gregg on Social Justice Gregg on Social Justice (black & white) There seems to be a great deal of confusion about “social justice” and what that term actually means. Continue Reading...

March 22, 2013

Samuel Gregg: Pope Francis and the Renaissance of Natural Law

Those who thought Pope Francis was going to be a “a jolly, badly-dressed, Gaia-worshipping baby-boomer from 1972 received a severe jolt of reality today”, says Sam Gregg, Acton’s Director of Research. Continue Reading...

March 07, 2013

Orthodoxy and Natural Law: A Reappraisal

At Ethika Politika today, I examine the recent critique by David Bentley Hart in the most recent issue of First Things of the use of natural law in public discourse in my article, “Natural Law, Public Policy, and the Uncanny Voice of Conscience.” Continue Reading...

February 07, 2013

New Issue of the Journal of Markets & Morality (15.2)

The newest issue of the Journal of Markets & Morality has been published. The issue is available in digital format online and should be arriving in print in the next few weeks for subscribers. Continue Reading...

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