Dear friends of Istituto Acton, It’s not good manners to begin the year with dire predictions, but with continuing Islamic terrorist attacks, increasing concern over Russian aggression, and

The original version of this article was featured in the Brazilian magazine Veja on January 4, 2017. Translated from the original Portuguese. While the poor get poorer, professionals that

Dear friends of Istituto Acton, I write to you 30,000 feet somewhere over Siberia, returning from a nearly month-long trip that took me from Boston to Hawaii, followed by short stays in

Dear friends of Istituto Acton, With the U.S. elections mercifully drawing to a close and the city of Rome mired in continual administrative turmoil, I’ve been thinking how we are

Dear friends of Istituto Acton, As followers of the US presidential election can readily attest, few political choices are between good and evil. This is especially true in the large

Dear friends of Istituto Acton, Last month, I broke from the Italian vacation tradition of “mare o monte” (sea or mountains) and took part in a medium-sized gathering of American and

Dear friends of Istituto Acton, I just spent a couple of days at World Youth Day in Kraków, courtesy of the Bund der Deutschen Katholischen Jugend (BDKJ), an umbrella organization of German

Dear friends of Istituto Acton, I happened to be in New York City during last week’s dramatic Brexit referendum, which had an upside and a downside. The upside was that being in NYC made the

Dear friends of Istituto Acton, More than a few Church leaders and intellectuals here in Rome have been scratching their heads, trying to make sense of Pope Francis’s post-synodal

The last months and weeks have been a period of extreme turbulence in American politics, bringing changes that deserve to be called radical and perhaps even revolutionary. In one of the