April 16, 2014
April 15, 2014
It’s Tax Day: How Generous Do You Feel?
April 02, 2014
When Caesar Meets Peter
April 01, 2014
Video: Kishore Jayablan on Obama & Francis – BBC World News
Kishore Jayabalan, Director of Istituto Acton in Rome, was tapped by BBC World News last week for his analysis of the meeting between Pope Francis and President Obama at the Vatican. Continue Reading...
April 01, 2014
Jindal: ‘America Didn’t Create Religious Liberty. Religious Liberty Created America.’
March 31, 2014
Homeschooled Students are More Politically Tolerant Than Their Peers
Critics of homeschooling have long maintained that it fails to inculcate students with the civic virtues necessary to maintain our republican form of democracy. But a study finds that when it comes to willingness to extend basic civil liberties to people who hold views with which one disagrees, homeschooled students are more tolerant than their peers:
Scholar Albert Cheng’s just-published fascinating and provocative study provides one of the first solid portions of empirical evidence about whether the homeschooled become more or less politically intolerant than others.[3] Continue Reading...
March 28, 2014
Video: Sirico on President Obama’s Meeting with Pope Francis
In this short talk, Rev. Robert A. Sirico, co-founder and president of the Acton Institute, offers some general observations about this week’s meeting between President Obama and Pope Francis at the Vatican, and reflects on the differences in philosophy that make a Presidential/Papal alliance such as what occurred during the time of Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II unlikely. Continue Reading...
March 26, 2014
Crony Capitalism’s Favorite Trick
March 18, 2014
Explainer: What’s Going On in Crimea?
March 18, 2014