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A world of kindness: Morality and private property in the Torah
True kindness can only come from giving from that which is one's own.Irrigating deserts with moral imagination
Children's and adolescents' imaginations need to be fed, not starved.Editor's note
Perhaps in this issue there is a little more emphasis on the “virtuous” rather than the “free.”The market, the movies, and the media
It is consumers that make violence and moral degradation in movies profitable. The best way to discourage this is by refraining from buying.Investing in the industry of influence
Modern media has the emotional power to make ideas feel true even when they are not. A single moment caught on film can render an entire story somehow “truthful” to an undiscerning audience.The twin vocations of art and work
Art and work are simply two manifestations of an essential human trait: creativity. Perhaps both artists and laborers are simply entrepreneurs working with different materials.Tinseltown's tin ear
A recent slide in movie attendance suggests a film industry crisis of major proportions, but pop culture potentates seem reluctant to confront it.Editor's note
The Acton Institute is, at heart, a cultural enterprise. We are not concerned so much with politics or economics or sociology or philosophy as we are with the whole package—the effect they have on our culture. Our concern is with the health of society as a whole—the free and virtuous society.Freaked out: Liberty, choice, and rogue economics
Levitt has done a service by bringing that truth to light, albeit in a somewhat freaky way.Papal economics 101: Freedom and truth
It is a particular contribution of Pope John Paul II to have introduced the “right of economic initiative” into the theological vocabulary.Editor's note
This first issue of the new format is unlike any we have published before. It is devoted entirely to the late Pope John Paul II.Duties of the consumer
he party most responsible for Third World workers receiving low wages may be the person in the mirror: the consumer.