Michael Matheson Miller is a Senior Research Fellow at the Acton Institute
Posts by Michael Matheson Miller
November 18, 2019
Jeffrey Tucker wrote a good piece at The American Institute for Economic Research. It is an important reminder about how hard business is and how the idea that most entrepreneurs are young is a myth.
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November 14, 2019
Law & Liberty just published a talk I gave at the Philadelphia Society meeting earlier this year on conservatism and the future of truth.
We live in an age of propaganda.
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October 31, 2019
I just was introduced to Bastion Magazine , founded by a group of young libertarians who have realized that in order to have a limited state, we also need strong civil and cultural institutions and especially strong families.
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October 31, 2019
The Thomistic Institute has a new video series introducing the work of St. Thomas Aquinas called Aquinas 101.
The videos are well done, concise, and clear, and if you are looking for an introduction to St.
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September 30, 2019
The Gospel reading on Sunday was the story of Lazarus and the rich man. I often refer to this parable in discussions about poverty, because Augustine points out that it was not wealth that sent the rich man to hell, but his indifference.
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September 30, 2019
Secular materialists and atheists like Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris like to mock religious people for being superstitious and illogical: resorting to fanciful explanations of events by invoking the work of God or miracles.
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September 24, 2019
What is friendship? What does it mean to be or to have a friend? And why does Aristotle consider friendship a virtue and an important for political life?
Wilfred McClay has a nice essay on friendship at the Hedgehog Review, where he reflects on the title of the song “My New, Old Friend.”
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August 31, 2019
It is a common theme in fairy tales and other stories that the loser of the struggle will tell the victor that their victory will come with a cost. We see a similar theme in the Bible with the prophets–perhaps most famously when Israel finally gets the king they wanted so they could be like the other nations.
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August 31, 2019
The other evening I was at a pool with my family. It was beautiful and warm, and we decided to order some pizza and have dinner at one of the tables overlooking the pool.
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August 29, 2019
One of the constant refrains in economic development—and now environment issues—is the topic of population control. Evidence notwithstanding, the claim that population causes poverty and that the planet is facing a population explosion is taught as settled science—even in the face of serious population decline in some countries.
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