Rev. Robert Sirico, the president and co-founder of the Acton Institute, discussed the proper balance between preserving public health and staving off economic collapse in a sweeping interview with Raymond Arroyo on Thursday night’s edition of EWTN’s The World Over. Continue Reading...
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April 10, 2020
Tom Coburn: Remembering an American statesman
A “statesman” is defined as “a wise, skillful, and respected political leader.” On March 28, America lost such a person when former U.S. Representative, Senator, and Doctor Tom Coburn died at the age of 72. Continue Reading...
April 10, 2020
COVID-19 reminds us work is not just about money
We’re starting to have serious discussions about how and when to get our economy moving again. But like the medical response to the COVID-19 virus, the prospective economic cures are tentative, often conflicting and invariably contentious. Continue Reading...
April 10, 2020
COVID-19 could inspire an ‘age of dispersion’ from megacities
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the constraints of “social distancing” have inspired new waves of innovation across spheres and sectors. “Life will never be the same” has become a common refrain—an ominous nod to the steady “Zoomification” of everyday life and its looming influence on the future of work, school, church, the family and beyond. Continue Reading...
April 10, 2020
Bernie Sanders drops out, but socialism marches on
Senator Bernie Sanders suspended his presidential campaign on Wednesday. Sanders faced insurmountable problems in the Democratic primaries, but his socialism was not one of them. Arguably, the substance of his campaign, with his enthusiastic speaking style, was his greatest selling point. Continue Reading...
April 09, 2020
Bernie Sanders, AOC would ‘cure’ COVID-19 with ‘short-term’ socialism
California Governor Gavin Newsom raised eyebrows last week when he told Bloomberg News that he sees the global coronavirus pandemic as an “opportunity” for “reimagining a progressive era as it pertains to capitalism.” Continue Reading...
April 09, 2020
How to keep your bearings in a crisis
As the COVID-19 epidemic continues to sweep the world, people are experiencing rapid changes in all spheres of their lives. Change is the common thread of my writing on this epidemic: changes people made to protect others, changes we are called to make to grow in wisdom, and changes we are called to make to our knowledge and skills in order to meet new economic challenges and serve our neighbors’ needs. Continue Reading...
April 08, 2020
Acton Line rebroadcast: Russell Kirk and the genesis of American Conservatism
Russell Kirk has long been known as perhaps the most important founding father of the American conservative movement in the second half of the twentieth century. In the early 1950s, America had emerged from the Great Depression and the onset of the New Deal, and was facing the rise of radical ideologies abroad; the American Right seemed beaten, broken, and adrift. Continue Reading...
April 08, 2020
Innovation vs. intervention during the coronavirus crisis
What sort of innovation, rather than government intervention, can come from the current crisis? What sort of long-term changes might we see in medicine and education? Rev. Robert Sirico, president and co-founder of the Acton Institute, shares his views on what may come. Continue Reading...
April 07, 2020
Thomas Aquinas versus Adrian Vermeule
The relationship between law, morality, and liberty is one of those topics that invariably generates fierce debate. And it usually plays out in very predictable ways.
On the one hand, there are some whose first instinct is to lurch for a comprehensive legal response to any number of moral evils to which legal coercion may not be the most optimal or even just response: “There ought to be a law against that!” Continue Reading...