I grew up in Brooklyn, an environment that was decidedly urban yet dotted here and there with parks and green spaces. So it should come as no surprise that it took me at least a couple of

The recent papal encyclical Laudato si’ would have been a more rounded document if it had considered the importance of private property for the protection of the environment. A stark example

"A land ethic, then, reflects the existence of an ecological conscience, and this in turn reflects a conviction of individual responsibility for the health of the land.”

“ Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest.” Aldo Leopold, in “The River of the Mother of God.” In December, several dozen

A review of The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan (W.W. Norton & Company 2017) It’s been several months since we young-Hemingway wannabes in Michigan put away our rods and reels

A collection of short essays by Acton writers, click a link to jump to that article: "Wisdom on the environment" by Robert Sirico "Blame sin for environmental problems" by Kishore Jayabalan

For our first issue of 2018, the R&L editorial board wanted to put together a very special “green” issue. We traveled across the country and talked to many experts to bring you essays

One of the clearest consequences of school vouchers, tax credits for private schooling and other programs that provide parents with a nonpublic option for educating their children, is the

A review of Anne Applebaum's Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine. “ It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.” – Abraham H. Maslow in

As we reach the end of 2017, we look back on several important anniversaries. The waning of 2017 invites a recap of all the year represented to me and the entire Acton universe. This is one

Sometime in the early 1960s, a teenager attended a church retreat on the problem of hunger in Yakima, Washington, with his youth group. There he heard a missionary speak about working with

Elinor Ostrom was a professor at Indiana University and the senior research director of the Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, which she and her