Many people believe that Brexit will be bad for the environment. The EU has major responsibilities in this policy area, and it is feared that, after Brexit, policy priorities will be

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

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Almost half a century separates us from May 1968 revolution, which derided bourgeois values and made the classical virtue of courage seem dubious, if not obsolete. Intellectuals of a Marxist

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In The Ethics of Rhetoric, University of Chicago rhetorician Richard Weaver wrote of “god terms.” By this phrase, Weaver meant the terms to which a culture attaches absolute goodness and

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Many educated people - though perhaps not enough - know that it was medieval monks who preserved classical culture. Between their daily offices, the monks huddled in their cells by

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At the start of the Syrian migration crisis, an Israeli security official warned of a coming “European intifada.” Few noticed it at the time. But after a series of attacks on largely Jewish