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Report: Largest North Korean prison camp has expanded

November 16, 2015 • by Sarah Stanley

Report: Largest North Korean prison camp has expanded

Do Google Earth satellite images point to more grim news from inside North Korea? According to an article from United Press International (UPI), Curtis Melvin of the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University noticed a substantial difference in satellite images of a North Korean prison camp from 2013 to some taken last month: [A]erial snapshots from Oct. Continue Reading...

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November 16, 2015

Will the Earth Ever Have Too Many People?

At the beginning of human history, God gave mankind a mandate to “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth” (Genesis 1:28). Sometime later—around the 19th-century—people started wondering, “Is the earth close to being filled with humans?” Continue Reading...

November 16, 2015

Bourgeois Equality: The Modern World Can’t Be Explained By Material Causes

Economist Deirdre McCloskey is set to release the long-anticipated conclusion of the Bourgeois Era trilogy sometime next spring. The book, Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World, will build on her thesis that our newfound prosperity is not primarily due to systems, tools, or materials, but the ideas and rhetoric behind them. Continue Reading...

November 16, 2015

Registration for Acton University 2016 is now open

We are now 211 days from the opening day of Acton University 2016! University.Acton.org is updated, full of brand new information, and ready to go for next year’s conference, held at The De Vos Place in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan on June 14-17, 2016. Continue Reading...

November 16, 2015

Why Don’t Christian Victims of Islamic State Qualify As Victims of Genocide?

The Obama administration is moving to designate the Islamic State’s persecution of the Yazidi in Iraq an act of “genocide.” For the past few years the Yazidi, a tiny religious minority in the Kurdish region of the country, have been forced to flee the killings, rapes, and enslavement by Islamic State (the terrorist group formerly known as ISIS). Continue Reading...

November 13, 2015

Arthur C. Clarke’s Inhuman Trade-Off in ‘Childhood’s End’

The fears of the past resonate in the present, and it’s no wonder humanity sometimes grasps desperately for answers in response to a frightening and unknowable future. Sometimes these answers come to us through literature and film which may allow us to dispense with the worst of them, given enough time. Continue Reading...

November 13, 2015

Explainer: What You Should Know About the Latest Contraceptive Mandate Challenge

The Supreme Court recently agreed to hear a challenge from religious nonprofit groups to federal government’s contraceptive mandate. Here are some answers to questions you may have about that case. What is this case and what’s it about? Continue Reading...

November 13, 2015

Acton Institute’s ‘Poverty Inc.’ Wins Templeton Freedom Award

Poverty Inc., the new documentary that has grown out of the Acton Institute’s PovertyCure initiative, was awarded Atlas Network’s Templeton Freedom Award at an event last night in New York. Continue Reading...

November 12, 2015

Over-Educated and Under-Trained: Mike Rowe on the Need for Philosophizing Welders

Marco Rubio has inspired plenty of chin-stroking over his recent remarks about welders earning more than philosophers. “We need more welders and less philosophers,” he concluded in a recent debate. Continue Reading...

November 12, 2015

Sisters of St. Dominic Rap ExxonMobil’s Knuckles

Religious shareholder activists egging on a federal investigation of ExxonMobil include the Tri-State Coalition for Responsible Investment, which counts the Sisters of St. Dominic of Caldwell, New Jersey, among its faith-based members. Continue Reading...

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Report: Largest North Korean prison camp has expanded

Report: Largest North Korean prison camp has expanded

Latest Posts

Will the Earth Ever Have Too Many People?

Bourgeois Equality: The Modern World Can’t Be Explained By Material Causes

Registration for Acton University 2016 is now open

Why Don’t Christian Victims of Islamic State Qualify As Victims of Genocide?

Arthur C. Clarke’s Inhuman Trade-Off in ‘Childhood’s End’

Explainer: What You Should Know About the Latest Contraceptive Mandate Challenge

Acton Institute’s ‘Poverty Inc.’ Wins Templeton Freedom Award

Over-Educated and Under-Trained: Mike Rowe on the Need for Philosophizing Welders

Sisters of St. Dominic Rap ExxonMobil’s Knuckles

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