Dylan Pahman is a research fellow at the Acton Institute, where he serves as executive editor of the Journal of Markets & Morality. He earned his MTS in historical theology from Calvin Theological Seminary.
In addition to his work as an editor, Dylan has authored several peer-reviewed articles, conference papers, essays, and one book: Foundations of a Free & Virtuous Society (Acton Institute, 2017). He has also lectured on a wide variety of topics, including Orthodox Christian social thought, the history of Christian monastic enterprise, the Reformed statesman and theologian Abraham Kuyper, and academic publishing, among others.
Posts by Dylan Pahman
May 07, 2018
First it happened to Toys ‘R’ Us, but we did nothing (except complain).
Now it may be happening to Barnes & Noble, and we will do nothing again. (Nothing except complain, that is.
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February 20, 2018
The newest issue of the
Journal of Markets & Morality has been published online and print copies are forthcoming.
This issue is the first with our new executive editor Kevin Schmiesing and our new book review editor Andrew M.
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February 15, 2018
This week, I was one of several commenters consulted in Nicholas Wolfram Smith’s article “FCC Repeal of Net Neutrality Leads to Lively Fight” for the National Catholic Register.
I think Smith did a fine job conveying my primary concern:
But according to Dylan Pahman, a researcher and managing editor of Acton Institute’s
Journal of Markets & Morality, one of the problems with the 2015 net neutrality regulations was that it gave the government far too much regulatory power over ISPs.
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October 09, 2017
A few years ago the following quote from Christopher Columbus started making the rounds:
For one woman they give a hundred castellanos, as for a farm; and this sort of trading is very common, and there are already a great number of merchants who go in search of girls; there are at this moment some nine or ten on sale; they fetch a good price, let their age be what it will.
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September 27, 2017
Today at
Public Orthodoxy, I examine the recent claim of Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew that
The human environment and the natural environment are deteriorating together, and this deterioration of the planet weighs upon the most vulnerable of its people.
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September 14, 2017
The video game developer Blizzard Entertainment, best-known today for its massively popular World of Warcraft (2004), first released a lesser-known classic in 1998: StarCraft. The science fiction warfare and strategy game was the best-selling PC game of the year, and it sold nearly 10 million copies over the next decade.
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September 13, 2017
Last week FEE published an essay by economist Dierdre McCloskey titled “The Core of Liberty is Economic Liberty.” McCloskey writes,
[E]conomic liberty is the liberty about which most ordinary people care.
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August 29, 2017
The newest issue of the
Journal of Markets & Morality, vol. 20, no. 1, has been published online and print copies are in the mail.
This issue is a special issue on “Morality, Neoclassical Economics, and John Maynard Keynes.”
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May 31, 2017
Today at
Public Discourse, I argue that in addition to idealism and self-interest, incompetence needs to be recognized as a more important factor in politics:
[U]nless we add incompetence as a category of analysis, we will tend to view every victory for our own team as a triumph of justice or freedom or equality (idealism), and every failure the result of deep and convoluted corruption (self-interest).
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April 17, 2017
This Sunday Christians all over the world (East and West together this year!) celebrated Easter or Pascha, the feast of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, the holiest day of the liturgical year, the beginning of a festive season that lasts for the next forty days.
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