Acton Director of Research Samuel Gregg offers five lessons from the financial crisis. "One measure of a society’s inner strength is its willingness to learn from mistakes and alter behavior appropriately," Gregg writes. Will we heed the lessons?

We relegated socialism to the dustbin of history, but socialism never actually died and in many ways it has actually gained influence," writes Michael Miller. He looks at the long march of determined cultural Marxists through Western institutions.