Acton University 2019 came to a close on June 21 with an address by Acton Institute President Rev. Robert A. Sirico, who urged participants to take what they had learned at the conference and put it to use in their day-to-day work. Continue Reading...
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July 17, 2019
Acton Line podcast: First Step Act brings home thousands of prisoners; A win for property rights
In a few short days, thousands of federal inmates will be returning home on “earned good time.” That’s a result of The First Step Act, a federal prison reform bill which was signed into law in December. Continue Reading...
July 17, 2019
7 Figures: Trends in global hostility toward religion
July 16, 2019
Understanding America’s anti-market soccer system
July 16, 2019
Washington’s ‘Public Option’ meets economic realities
Sarah Kliff did some fine reporting on, ‘The Lessons of Washington State’s Watered Down ‘Public Option’’ for the New York Times last month,
For those who dream of universal health care, Washington State looks like a pioneer. Continue Reading...
July 16, 2019
BBC’s ‘Years and Years’: Economic progress causes the apocalypse
Scanning bookshelves crammed with titles like Divergent, The Hunger Games, and countless imitators, this is the literary era of dystopian fiction. BBC One entered the genre with its “woke” TV series “Years and Years,” which offered UK viewers the unique analysis that technological progress and economic freedom triggered the apocalypse. Continue Reading...
July 16, 2019
How market forces can help preserve the environment
July 15, 2019
Solzhenitsyn: Freedom’s habits and hindrances (video)
July 15, 2019
Recalling the one lesson: The US-China trade war revisited
July 15, 2019
The Bookmonger podcast talks to Samuel Gregg about his new book
Samuel Gregg, director of research at the Acton Institute, released a new book titled, Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization. In his book, Gregg discusses the dangers that an unbalanced relationship between faith and reason imposes on a society. Continue Reading...