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The human desire for peace and liberty
When faced with occurrences like the bombing at the Boston Marathon, our lives seem to make a little less sense, to be a little less free, a little less calm. The problems seem magnified by the 24/7 barrage of media coverage.Clare Boothe Luce
I refuse the compliment that I think like a man. Thought has no sex; one either thinks or one does not.Why does Acton publish "In the Liberal Tradition" and why is it important to our mission?
The writer and Nobel Prize laureate William Faulkner once said, "The past is never dead. It's not even past." Every day at Acton, we find the truth in those words. We work at cultivating a rich tradition rooted in economic liberty, moral reflection, and the dignity of the person. We are passionate about bringing this tradition forward to new audiences.Work & play
An excerpt from Faithful In All God's House by Gerard Berghoef and Lester Dekoster.America's European past and future
A review of Samuel Gregg's Becoming Europe: Economic Decline, Culture, and How America Can Avoid a European Future.(Encounter Books, January 2013) Hardcover, 384 pages; $25.99.Double-edged sword: The power of the Word - Isaiah 6:3
And they were calling to one another: "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty; the whole earth is full of His glory."Principle and prudence: two shrines, two revolutions, and two traditions of religious liberty
One of the charges often leveled against the Protestant Reformation is that it essentially continued, and in some accounts exacerbated, fundamental problems with the received medieval models of the relationship between church and state. As Lord Acton put it memorably, "From the death of St.The moral crisis of crony capitalism
An Interview with Peter Schweizer.
Editor's note
There is no evidence that Mark Felt, identified by the code name Deep Throat, ever whispered "follow the money" to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward during the Watergate investigation just over 40 years ago. It's a line that lives on in the film All the President's Men. It's assumed to be true because it accurately depicts the situation in our government where many corporations and politicians profit from state power and expansion.The role of profits
Profits are central to capitalism, and I am often asked whether profit making is evidence of greed. Not in itself. The fact that a business is profitable tells us little that is morally relevant. Profit, after all, is simply the name that accounting attaches to the condition of income outpacing costs. In other words, a company that earns a profit brings in more money than it expends for all of its costs, including materials, real estate, labor, and taxes. The opposite of profits is financial loss. A firm that is losing rather than making money cannot long survive.Metropolitan Philip II
Metropolitan Phillip II of Moscow, a saint of the Orthodox Church, was a casualty of Ivan the Terrible.What is the 'Our Great Exchange' curriculum and why is it an important stewardship resource?
Starting in 2010, the Acton Institute began developing a seven-part stewardship curriculum to strengthen the connection of faith, calling and economics in the daily life of the believer. The small group curriculum for Our Great Exchange is largely tailored for evangelical small group engagement and features over two hours of creative storytelling and practical insight. In a particularly moving scene, Chuck Colson, in his last-ever extensive interview, talks about his calling and its impact upon his life.