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When British author Douglas Murray debated comedian Dave Smith and podcaster Joe Rogan on the latter’s show, many in the audience expressed frustration that Murray didn’t make certain points in defense of Israel he’s made in the past and could easily have brought up again. Continue Reading...

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April 22, 2025

The Future of American Religion and Liberty

As America nears the 250th birthday of her existence as a republic, there is no shortage of Americans fretting, wondering, and ruminating on not only its future but whether this experiment in ordered liberty is a worthy one. Continue Reading...

April 21, 2025

Requiem Aeternam: Pope Francis (1936–2025)

On behalf of our colleagues, families, and friends at the Acton Institute in the United States and Rome, we express our heartfelt sorrow and the pledge of our prayers for the eternal repose of the soul of Pope Francis, the 266th Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, who passed away today at the age of 88 during the 13th year of his papacy, which began March 13, 2013. Continue Reading...

April 18, 2025

Joe Rogan, Kid Rock, Bigfoot … and the Resurrection

A little over a year ago, on one of the world’s most popular podcasts, The Joe Rogan Experience, the host Joe Rogan asked the musician Kid Rock, “If you could go to one place, where would you go? Continue Reading...

April 17, 2025

Restoring the Broken Embrace after Tragedy

In December 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed. My family had left just a few months earlier to immigrate to Israel from Leningrad—which reverted post-collapse to its pre-revolutionary name of St. Petersburg. Continue Reading...

April 16, 2025

Live Not by Lies Is More than a Movie

Angel Studios is a rare enterprise in American film, trying to put together popularity, prestige, Christianity, and new media. They had a major hit with Sound of Freedom (2023), then aimed for the Oscars with Bonhoeffer (2024). Continue Reading...

April 15, 2025

God and Mr. Lincoln

Today marks the 160th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s death. Almost immediately after the terrible event of his assassination, the martyred president was elevated to the heights of American civil religion. Despite their earlier opposition to the conduct of the war, Radical Republicans sought to appropriate his legacy to justify their extreme plans for Reconstruction. Continue Reading...

April 10, 2025

America Poured Billions into DEI Initiatives. Who Benefited?

Less than a month after George Floyd’s death, evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience to explain the sentiment behind America’s new reckoning on race. “There’s a cybernetic principle: the purpose of a system is what it does,” he asserted. Continue Reading...

April 09, 2025

Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Champion of Life

There’s a line that’s been attributed to Martin Luther that goes something like this: “Even if I knew the world was going to end tomorrow, I would still plant a tree today.” Continue Reading...

April 07, 2025

There Is No ‘Just Tariff’

James Hartley provided a thought-provoking and insightful discussion of tariffs at a recent Acton Lecture Series event. Far be it from me to say he is completely off-base when it comes to tariffs. Continue Reading...

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