Past Lecture Series

If we face America’s racial history squarely, must we conclude that the American project is a failure? Conversely, if we think the American

Digital technology has brought many benefits. But it also comes with growing threats to our privacy, our families and businesses, our health

Religious-liberty litigants have won 18 of their past 19 cases in the U.S. Supreme Court, 14 of them unanimously or by supermajority vote

We are excited for a return to in-person for the Acton Lecture Series! Books connect us in a very real way to people and ideas from the past

The natural limits of the human body make us vulnerable and therefore dependent on others. Yet American law and policy disregard these

For over half a century America has been suffering from a growing but strangely overlooked crisis: a flight from work by men in the prime of

Modern culture is obsessed with identity. Since the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court decision in 2015, sexual identity has

Too loosely is the word "Marxist" used to insult a conflicting viewpoint. When we conscript people to a "side" and reduce them with a label

Beginning with a conversation prompted by African American scholars like Dr. Alvin Poussaint of Harvard Medical School, to the current Black

Please join us in welcoming our 2020 Novak Award recipient, Gregory Collins, as our first Acton Lecture Series speaker for the 2021 season