The Acton Institute is helping popularize a left-leaning professor’s stark criticism of the universal basic income among the world’s 275-million Francophones. A new French language translation of “Marx vs. the universal basic income” recounts the findings of Ive Marx, a supporter of income redistribution. Continue Reading...
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April 29, 2020
‘Mrs. America’: How Hollywood rewrites history
In an interview about her creation of FX’s new Hulu miniseries, Mrs. America, Dahvi Waller tells Esquire magazine that the idea for the series was born out of her childhood home. Continue Reading...
April 29, 2020
Acton Line podcast: COVID-19 and job loss: Where do we go from here?
The United States has been in a state of emergency since mid-March as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak. In order to slow the spread of the virus, states have implemented various measures, including shelter-in-place orders, forcing millions of Americans to stay at home. Continue Reading...
April 29, 2020
Alejandro Chafuen in Forbes: Latin America’s coronavirus situation
Last month Alejandro Chafuen, Acton’s Managing Director, International, published a piece on Forbes.com detailing Latin America’s response to and preparedness for COVID-19. He recently followed up with a new post that brings his analysis up to date and highlights the situation’s relationship to the rest of the Americas. Continue Reading...
April 28, 2020
J.D. Vance and the politics of resentment
Resentment is a complicated emotion, a curious mix of disappointment, disgust, anger, and fear. The villainous court composer Antonio Salieri in Miloš Forman’s Academy Award-winning film Amadeus is a study in resentment. Continue Reading...
April 24, 2020
A free-market agenda for rebuilding from the coronavirus
On June 18, 1940, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill steeled his people for the Battle of Britain with a stirring speech in the House of Commons that concluded: “Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves, that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, ‘This was their finest hour.’” Continue Reading...
April 23, 2020
Science: Human beings were made for creative cooperation
Popular culture presents the human race as competitors in a selfish struggle for the survival of the fittest. However, new scientific research finds that the human race has a natural tendency to cooperate—and that religion increases philanthropic giving and voluntarism during a crisis. Continue Reading...
April 22, 2020
Rethinking free markets in an age of anxiety
On December 26, 1991, the USSR’s Supreme Soviet passed its final piece of legislation. Declaration Number 142-Н formally stated that the Soviet Union had ceased to exist as a sovereign entity. Continue Reading...
April 22, 2020
Acton Line podcast: Responding to a Harvard prof’s call to ban homeschooling
Homeschooling is growing in popularity. In fact, the U.S. Department of Education has shown that it’s grown at a rate of over 60% in the last decade, as many families are deciding that educating their children at home is better than sending them to public or private schools. Continue Reading...
April 22, 2020
Build yourself, build society
One of Christ’s best-known parables is the Parable of the Talents, but its familiarity disguises just how strange and unsettling its message is. It is a parable of a master who departs on a journey and entrusts three servants, each according to his ability, with his property. Continue Reading...