Dr. Jay Richards, Acton's Director of Media, joins host Frank Pastore on KKLA in Los Angeles to discuss the recent proposal by some Democrat members of Congress to nationalize the US domestic oil industry in response to this year's spike in gasoline prices. Richards addresses the idea that such a move would decrease prices, arguing that it would be more likely to increase prices and lead to shortages. Richards and Pastore also talk about Jim Wallis' argument that Christians need to de-emphasize social issues like abortion and place more emphasis on issues such as poverty, global warming, and the like.

Quick Links

• Taking a Left Turn at Chavez Boulevard by Marc VanderMaas
• Religion, Economics, and the Market Paradox by Robert H. Nelson
• What Latin Americans Want by Dr. Samuel Gregg
• Entries tagged as Socialism on the Acton Institute PowerBlog

Argentine author and professor Dr. Carlos Hoevel is the winner of the Acton Institute’s 2008 Novak Award.

Named after distinguished American theologian and social philosopher Michael Novak, the Novak Award rewards new outstanding research by scholars early in their academic careers who demonstrate outstanding intellectual merit in advancing the understanding of theology's connection to human dignity, the importance of limited government, religious liberty, and economic freedom.

Read the press release here.

In “Freedom, the Family and the Market: A Humane Response to the Socialist Attack on the Family,” Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse describes how the socialist ideal of equality has played an independent role in the breakdown of the family, arguing that socialism has attacked the family directly and has adopted policies that have led to demographic collapse. An outlined version of the lecture is available on the media page.