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How leftist populism is crushing freedom in Bolivia

October 23, 2019 • by Samuel Gregg

How leftist populism is crushing freedom in Bolivia

As we’ve seen in countries like Venezuela, Ecuador and Nicaragua, Latin American left-leaning populists are quite content to work in democratic systems—until, that is, those systems start delivering results which they don’t like. Continue Reading...

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October 23, 2019

Celebrating ‘intrapreneurship’: The power of employee-innovators

In our pursuit of economic prosperity and progress, we tend to focus heavily on the role of the entrepreneur—and rightly so. Many of the world’s most transformative discoveries have come from people willing to take significant risks and endure painful sacrifices to bring new enterprises to life. Continue Reading...

October 23, 2019

Acton Line podcast: The morality of ‘Joker’; How Clarence Thomas is changing SCOTUS

The new super villain drama ‘Joker’ has shattered box office records and gained much controversial media attention along the way. Set to top $900 million worldwide, the dark film from director Todd Phillips and actor Joaquin Phoenix is already being heralded as the biggest R-rated movie ever. Continue Reading...

October 23, 2019

Ginsburg and Hale: Creating new laws from the bench

In a new commentary, Trey Dimsdale looks at winsome celebrity jurists Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Brenda Hale, heroines of the left wing project to change how constitutional law is understood in the United States and the United Kingdom. Continue Reading...

October 22, 2019

Why you’re richer than you think (and Jeff Bezos is poorer)

One of the most ubiquitous complaints against capitalism holds that real wages have stagnated since the 1970s. Meanwhile, CEOs such as Amazon’s Jeff Bezos earn more money than ever. The charge surfaced as recently as the fourth Democratic presidential debate, last Tuesday. Continue Reading...

October 22, 2019

Video: Andrew Klavan on reintroducing our culture to the truth

On October 15th, the Acton Institute celebrated its 29th anniversary with a dinner at the J.W. Marriott hotel in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The keynote address for the evening was delivered by Andrew Klavan, the award-winning author and screenwriter. Continue Reading...

October 22, 2019

Adam Smith and a life well-lived

Over at Law & Liberty I had the pleasure of reviewing Ryan Patrick Hanley’s new book, Our Great Purpose: Adam Smith on Living a Better Life. I highly recommend it: Ryan Patrick Hanley’s latest book offers an accessible, erudite, and concise introduction to Adam Smith in full, the moral philosopher of wisdom and prudence. Continue Reading...

October 21, 2019

Rev. Richard Turnbull: Parliament’s moral failure on Brexit

UK Parliament has twice denied Prime Minister Boris Johnson a vote on a Brexit deal favored by the majority of British citizens. The latest efforts to delay Brexit have created “a modern moral crisis in one of the world’s foremost democratic nations,” writes Rev. Continue Reading...

October 21, 2019

Alejandro Chafuen in Forbes: Young Europeans’ views of totalitarianism

Alejandro Chafuen, Acton’s Managing Director, International, wrote recently in Forbes to give his thoughts on a recent survey that examined young Europeans’ attitudes toward various strains of totalitarianism. Attitudes in different countries vary, of course, and – unsurprisingly – communism is viewed more favorably in countries that were never behind the Iron Curtain than in many eastern ones where the historical memory of it lives on. Continue Reading...

October 21, 2019

Wealth creation and the Reformed confessional tradition

I have been working as part of the Moral Markets project for the past couple of years, and as the formal end of the project looms, some of the outputs of the project are coming to fruition. Continue Reading...

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How leftist populism is crushing freedom in Bolivia

How leftist populism is crushing freedom in Bolivia

Latest Posts

Celebrating ‘intrapreneurship’: The power of employee-innovators

Acton Line podcast: The morality of ‘Joker’; How Clarence Thomas is changing SCOTUS

Ginsburg and Hale: Creating new laws from the bench

Why you’re richer than you think (and Jeff Bezos is poorer)

Video: Andrew Klavan on reintroducing our culture to the truth

Adam Smith and a life well-lived

Rev. Richard Turnbull: Parliament’s moral failure on Brexit

Alejandro Chafuen in Forbes: Young Europeans’ views of totalitarianism

Wealth creation and the Reformed confessional tradition

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