Acton Line podcast: A trial for religious liberty; defining honorable business

April 04, 2019 • by Caroline Roberts

Acton Line podcast: A trial for religious liberty; defining honorable business

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April 04, 2019

A Spaniard defends Conservative Liberalism

“Conservative liberalism” isn’t a term commonly used in the United States. Indeed, to American ears, it seems positively oxymoronic. In Europe, however, it constitutes a venerable tradition of political thought and embraces figures ranging from the French thinkers Alexis de Tocqueville and Raymond Aron to economists such as the primary intellectual architect of the German economic miracle, Wilhelm Röpke, and the French monetary theorist Jacques Rueff. Continue Reading...
April 03, 2019

All homeschoolers may have to register with the government

The Department of Education has proposed new guidelines that all homeschool parents must register with the government. Officials say the registry, which comes as a booming number of children are being educated at home, would be used for government officials to check up on students and assure the pupils are receiving the government’s definition of a quality education. Continue Reading...
April 03, 2019

AOC and the New Eugenics

Here is a piece I wrote for the Stream on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her comments on climate change and whether “it is still ok to have children.” When an American politician asks if it is still okay to have children, this is something to notice. Continue Reading...
April 02, 2019

The U.S. money supplies

Note: This is post #117 in a weekly video series on basic economics. What exactly is money? That may seem like a really simple question, but it’s actually kind of complicated, notes economist Alex Tabarrok. Continue Reading...