Dear friends of Istituto Acton, It’s good to be back in Rome following lots of travel in December and January, although it’s sad to see that the Italian capital is not changing for the
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
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 have
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 anything
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 is
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 this
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”, basically
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 society
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 world
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
"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
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