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Letter from Rome: Why Catholic Social Teaching falls on deaf ears
- Dear friends of Istituto Acton, Happy New Year! I spent December travelling to Washington DC for an Acton conference on public spirit and public virtue and then led a week-long course on
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Letter from Rome: Socialism still kills
Dear friends of Istituto Acton, Talk long enough to European conservatives and they will eventually remind you that the communists in the western and eastern parts of the Old Continent haveLetter from Rome: Europe is all talk, no action
Dear friends of Istituto Acton, This may sound hypocritical and undiplomatic coming from someone who works at a think tank and spends a lot of time at conferences, but is there anythingLetter from Rome: Quid est homo economicus?
Dear friends of Istituto Acton, Intellectuals are often vocal critics of capitalism. Most of them lean left politically, so it is easy to identify anti-capitalism with progressivism. It isLetter from Rome: How populism feeds identity politics
Dear friends of Istituto Acton, The rise of populist nationalism, most prominently in Great Britain and the United States, was the big news story of 2016, with dire warnings of what thisLetter from Rome: Anti-Americanism at the Vatican
Dear friends of Istituto Acton, It’s been a couple of weeks since La Civiltà Cattolica published “ Evangelical Fundamentalism and Catholic Integralism: A Surprising Ecumenism”, basicallyLetter from Rome: Religious liberty and the quest for social unity
Dear friends of Istituto Acton, Having just concluded this year’s edition of Acton University, my mind is overflowing with reflections on the current status of the free and virtuous societyLetter from Rome: The problem with “Good-Shepherd” economics
Dear friends of Istituto Acton, Capitalism is often the victim of its own success. The expansion of the division of labor and trade has resulted in many, many more people across the worldLetter from Rome: Forza Blu!
Dear Friends of Istituto Acton, Forgive the blatant boosterism of this month’s letter, but I’m still recovering from the euphoria of seeing my alma mater’s football team in Rome last week
Samuel Gregg on the basis of human flourishing
- "Do good and avoid evil." So summarizes economist and scholar Samuel Gregg, director of research at the Acton Institute in the United States. This is the core of the message he tried to
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Letter from Rome: Nationalism is here to stay
- Dear friends of Istituto Acton, Last December, I offered you the confessions of a chastened globalist, but in this Lenten season I realize my penance is not yet complete. Over the last few
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Letter from Rome: Who speaks for the “people”?
Dear friends of Istituto Acton, We are in the midst of a major political upheaval in the West. The recent World Meeting of Popular Movements in Modesto, California is just one of many left