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Christopher Sandford
Christopher Sandford is a British-born writer who now makes his home in the Pacific Northwest. He's the author of many books, including Union Jack, a bestselling account of John F. Kennedy's special relationship with the United Kingdom.
Blake Scott Ball
Blake Scott Ball is assistant professor and chair of the Department of History and Political Science at Huntingdon College. He is the author of Charlie Brown’s America: The Popular Politics of Peanuts. His writing has also appeared in The Washington Post and The Bulwark. Posts by Blake Scott Ball February 22, 2022 Charles Schulz believed that life was hard and lonesome. That is why he believed that life was best experienced with others.
David Hein
David Hein is a senior fellow at the George C. Marshall Foundation, in Lexington, Va., and the author of more than 70 articles for "Modern Age," the "New Criterion," the "Journal of Military History," "Army" magazine, the "Intercollegiate Review," and other periodicals. Posts by David Hein February 21, 2022 Cancel—as in noisily toppling George Washington’s statue and striking his name off of buildings?
Eric Kohn
Eric Kohn is director of communications at the Acton Institute. In that role, he works to bring Acton's vision of a free and virtuous society characterized by individual liberty and sustained by religious principles to a wider audience. Prior to joining Acton, Eric was director of community management at the Illinois Policy Institute, one of the nation's premier state-based think tanks. He was also the founder and CEO of Curious Task Strategies, a public affairs consulting firm.
David Mills
David Mills is a senior editor of The Stream and a columnist for several Catholic publications. Posts by David Mills January 27, 2022 In the classic way of religious institutions, the pope picked up the term just as it seems to be going out of regular usage. It feels a bit like yesterday’s news. Continue Reading...
Rachel Ferguson
Rachel Ferguson is a professor of business ethics, assistant dean of the College of Business, and director of the Free Enterprise Center at Concordia University Chicago. She is a board member for LOVEtheLOU, a neighborhood stabilization ministry in North St. Louis; the Freedom Center of Missouri; and ReThink315. She is also on the editorial board of the Journal of Religion, Culture & Democracy.
Peter Chattaway
Peter T. Chattaway is a freelance film critic who has written for Christianity Today, Books & Culture, and BC Christian News. He has also contributed essays to several books about movie adaptations of the Bible, including "Re-Viewing The Passion," "Scandalizing Jesus?," "The Bible in Motion," and "The T&T Clark Handbook on Jesus and Film." He keeps a blog, "FilmChat," at Patheos.com and lives in Surrey, British Columbia.
Samuel Gregg
is director of research at the Acton Institute. He has written and spoken extensively on questions of political economy, economic history, ethics in finance, and natural law theory. He has an MA in political philosophy from the University of Melbourne, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in moral philosophy and political economy from the University of Oxford.
Robert G. Kennedy
Robert G. Kennedy (MBA, Ph.D.) is a professor in the Department of Catholic Studies at the University of St. Thomas, where he was previously a professor of management. He writes on business and the Catholic social tradition. Posts by Robert G. Kennedy December 13, 2021 Most people have intuitions about moral issues of consequence, but we often find it difficult to put these intuitions into words.
The high price of human trafficking
Human trafficking is an open wound on the body of contemporary society, a scourge upon the body of Christ. It is a crime against humanity. The very fact of our being here to combine our efforts means that we want our strategies and areas of expertise to be accompanied and reinforced by the mercy of the Gospel, by closeness to the men and women who are victims of this crime. – Pope Francis, in his address at a 2014 Conference on Human Trafficking.
A Vulnerable World
About Elise Hilton Elise Graveline Hilton holds a BA in religious studies from Alma College and an MA in world religions from Western Michigan University. After taking time to raise her five children, she returned to the paid workforce a decade ago. As the Communications Specialist for the Acton Institute, she writes regularly at the Acton PowerBlog and speaks on faith, family, and sanctity of life issues.
Acton University Lecturer: Islam's Fatalism
Longtime Acton University lecturer (and author of “Islam Without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty”) Mustafa Akyol discusses the recent tragic deaths at Mecca in The New York Times. More to the point, Akyol talks about the fatalism which seems inherent in Islamic theology. More than 100 people died when a crane collapsed in Mecca earlier this month.
Five Adults And A Baby: Is This A Family?
Five adults (three men, two women) in the Netherlands are having a child together, and plan to raise said child together. I know this is a little tricky so let me explain. Jaco and Sjoerd (those are the guys) and Daantje and Dewi (the women) are all homosexual. They’ve known each other for 10 years. Then there is Sean, who is the third person in Jaco and Sjoerd’s relationship. They would marry him, but cannot legally. The five folks want a child.
Pope’s Encyclical: Eschew Air Conditioning?
I know why Victorian women fainted so much. They were too hot – literally. Wearing layers and layers of clothes, corseted to the point of not being able to breath, attempting to make merry in rooms draped and swathed and festooned with velvet furniture and bric-a-brac. If you think about London in the summer … you’d faint too. I will happily keep my modern clothing and my air conditioning, thank you. Not so fast, says Pope Francis.
Samuel Gregg On The Dangers Of Public Debt, Welfare State
In today’s Public Discourse, Acton’s director of research, Samuel Gregg, discusses the enormous debt crisis the U.S. and many nations currently face. While debt crises are hardly new, Gregg states, America’s current debt situation is frightening. In 2013, 49 percent of federal government expenditures was on major entitlements such as Social Security and Medicare, with another 20 percent on income security and other benefits. Just 18 percent was on national defense.
A Healthy Dose Of Skepticism For Scientific Consensus
My husband and I had a conversation about science on the way home from church yesterday. Since he is a scientist, it drives him a little buggy when people talk about “consensus” as a way to come to a scientific conclusion, or that scientific facts can be “bent” to uphold a particular opinion or viewpoint. As he said, science is about discovery and fact, not about agreement.
Unholy Alliance: Who is Advising Pope Francis on Global Warming?
Smiling, lovable, Pope Francis says and does the darndest things. Wildly popular, this Argentine pontiff provides the common touch that for millions, and not just Catholics, offers a welcome and very public picture of how the world’s most influential religious leader can live, pray and lead as a humble pastor.
Wasting Away In Refugee Camps
A refugee camp, by definition, is meant to be temporary. Yet, in many places in Africa, young people know nothing but life in a refugee camp. And they are wasting away – perhaps not physically, but mentally, emotionally and in terms of feeling useful. In Tanzania, Ezad Essa explored some of these camp, talking to young people. Ilunga Malea Shabani, 26, says he does not recall his journey to Tanzania well.
The Moral Limits of Psychology
Defenders of the free market insist that virtue is essential to a just and thriving economy. If morality is relevant to economics, it is equally so to allied fields of social science, all of which have as their object of investigation the human person. Indifference to the moral dimension distorts the study of human action in economics; so too does it deform the discipline that reaches behind that action to the human mind: psychology.
American Higher Education: Where Free Speech Goes To Die
You’ve heard of that mythical place where elephants go to die? Apparently, these giants “know” they are going to die, and they head off to a place known only to them. Free speech in the United States goes off to die as well, but there is no myth surrounding this. Free speech dies in our colleges and universities. Just ask American Enterprise Institute’s Christina Sommers. Sommers is a former philosophy professor and AEI scholar who recently spoke at Oberlin College.
Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act: What's The Deal?
Last week, Indiana Governor Mike Pence (R) signed his state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Social media went a bit, well, bonkers. Hillary Clinton tweeted, “Sad this new Indiana law can happen in America today. We shouldn’t discriminate against ppl bc of who they love #LGBT.” The CEO of SalesForce, headquartered in Indiana, says they will pull out. Tim Cook, the chief executive of Apple, has called religious freedom laws “dangerous” and likens them to Jim Crow laws. What’s all of this about?
The Greatest 'Privilege' In America? Get Married, Stay Married
There is a lot of talk about “privilege” in our nation: white privilege, the privilege of the “1%,” privilege of living in one school district versus another. Yet, the greatest “privilege” in America is hardly ever mentioned. It’s a privilege that creates happy, healthy, smart kids, a privilege that helps ensure economic stability for everyone involved, a privilege that keeps our neighborhoods and cities safer and more productive. It’s marriage.
Women and the Academy Awards: Hashtag Nonsense and Factual Farce
My Academy Awards confessions: I have not seen Birdman. I use the time allotted for the best sound editing award to get a snack and let the dog out. I like to watch the pre-show and see the beautiful gowns (and reel in horror at some of the couture creations.) This year, the Academy Awards got a little injection of faux feminism. Hollywood’s female elite, woefully tired of being asked, “Who are you wearing?” cried out for more substantial red carpet questions.
‘Work Is A Good Thing For Man’
I was transfixed by this video the other day. The simplicity of the video itself, the careful, skillful work, the lovely hands of a master at work – all brought to mind the goodness of work and creation that God granted to us.
Don’t Want To Be Called Racist? Then Let The Children Suffer
It seems far too bizarre to be true: an entire town where on-going child molestation continued for years, despite the fact that the molestation was no secret. Children were doused in gasoline and told they’d be set on fire. They were sexually abused, trafficked to other countries, passed around from abuser to abuser. And on and on. For years. Somebody on the Rotherham Borough Council finally had the brains and guts enough to request an inquiry and report.
The Mysterious Case Of The Disappearing Doctors
No, it’s not a Sherlock Holmes book. It’s reality: American is losing doctors. When most of us have a medical concern, our first “line of defense” is the family physician: that person who checks our blood pressure, keeps on eye on our weight, looks in our ears and our throat for infections, and does our annual physicals. And it’s these doctors that are becoming scarce. In American Spectator, Acton Research Fellow Jonathan Witt takes a look at this issue.
‘No Religion, Please. We’re European.’
It is no secret that Europe is becoming less and less religious. A 2010 survey stated that only about half of Europe’s citizens believed in God, with some places (such as Sweden and the Czech Republic) registering belief in only about 20 percent of the population. And it’s not just that less people believe; it’s that there is growing hostility to religion in the EU. Take for example Slovakia.
The Problem With ‘Buy American’
The call to “buy American” is one we hear frequently or see plastered on the bumper of the car in front of us. Donald Boudreaux, senior economics advisor at Mercatus Center, explains the problem with this ideal in a letter to the Washington Post: Let’s make a deal. Government will agree to protect only those American workers and small-business owners who in return agree to stop buying foreign-made products.
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