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The European Union: ‘A secular heaven on earth’

May 04, 2016 • by Sarah Stanley

The European Union: ‘A secular heaven on earth’

The New Totalitarian Temptation “is the best book ever written about the European Union,” says John Fonte, who just reviewed it for National Review. Acton’s director of international outreach, Todd Huizinga, wrote Totalitarian Temptation based on his experience with the U.S. Continue Reading...

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Lord Acton was a man of multitudes: he had a scholar’s library of about 67,000 volumes, his notes and manuscripts in the Cambridge library fill some 50,000 pages, and he produced 200 definitions of liberty. Continue Reading...

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The European Union: ‘A secular heaven on earth’

The European Union: ‘A secular heaven on earth’

Latest Posts

Lord Acton: Man of Multitudes and Contradictions

Is Pope Francis’ Audit of Vatican Bank Over?

Now Available: ‘On Sale, Securities, and Insurance’ by Leonardus Lessius

What is (and isn’t) Mercy?

Report: Incarceration of Prisoners of Conscience ‘Astonishingly Widespread’

Did President Obama save the world from a Great Depression? Probably not.

Rev. Sirico on Chuck Colson and His Legacy

David Brat on the Need for Theologians Who Understand Economics

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