October 6, 2026 6:00pm POVERTY TRAP in Chicago: Advance Screening and Filmmaker Q&A ABOUT THE EVENT You are invited to join the Acton Institute on Tuesday, October 6, 2026 in Chicago at the Chicago History Museum for an Read more »
October 16, 2026 9:30am Acton Institute Sixth Annual Academic Conference: The Spirit of ‘76: Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson, and the American Founding Celebrate the 250th Anniversary of American independence, and the 250th anniversary of the publication of Adam Smith’s On the Wealth of Read more »
October 16, 2026 12:00pm Lecture series Virtue as the Wealth of Nations Adam Smith and many of the American founders understood freedom to be a proximate cause of the wealth and prosperity of a nation. Somewhat Read more »
October 22, 2026 5:00pm Conference series The Wealth of Nations at 250: A Free and Virtuous Society Conference A recent poll of Americans found that more members of Gen Z favor socialism than capitalism, while other findings from this same poll Read more »
