June 07, 2005
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June 02, 2005
Bono: aid or trade?
May 05, 2005
(In)Direct aid
March 28, 2013
Diaspora-Driven Development
February 06, 2006
Acton ad campaign update
February 20, 2024
Oppenheimer and a Future Worth Waiting For
I remember looking at all the social media reactions of critics and friends who had seen Oppenheimer, now up for a Best Picture Oscar. So many of them described walking out of the movie “devastated” and “depressed.” Continue Reading...
February 16, 2024
Public Life, Private Vice in American Life
In his latest book, Moral Vision: Leadership from George Washington to Joe Biden, Marvin Olasky, author of the highly influential Tragedy of American Compassion (and Acton affiliate scholar), examines American history in light of a Turkish saying, “the fish stinks first at the head,” meaning that moral decay at the highest echelons of society inevitably affects the whole. Continue Reading...
February 06, 2024
The Abolition of America
Christopher Rufo is the American right’s man on fire. Perhaps no person has done more than Rufo to expose the true aim of identity politics and its enforcement arm, the diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI) project: the abolition of American life. Continue Reading...
February 01, 2024
John M. Perkins and the Gift of Drawing Closer
Last month I wrote about John M. Perkins, who is black, and wealthy philanthropist Howard Ahmanson, who is white. Forty years ago, together in a hotel near the Mumbai, India, airport, they wanted their driver, a Dalit (“untouchable”), to have a room. Continue Reading...
January 26, 2024
St. Augustine Speaks to the Suicide of a Civilization
Americans are killing themselves in record numbers. According to a study published in August by the Kaiser Family Foundation, between 2011 and 2022, more than half a million lives were lost to suicide, with 2022 showing the highest number of deaths on record, an increase of 16%. Continue Reading...