The American science fiction author Philip K. Dick was a strange guy. In addition to being a prolific author of many science fiction classics like The Man in the High Castle, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Continue Reading...
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June 14, 2019
A European social democrat critiques Bernie Sanders’ ’21st Century Bill of Rights’
Senator Bernie Sanders has refused to grapple with the fact that socialist governments regularly suppress human rights and devolve into despotism, according to a social democrat from Germany. Even as Sanders proposed an economic “Bill of Rights” this week, he ignored the fact that civil liberties depend on preserving “private economic initiative,” the political scientist said. Continue Reading...
June 14, 2019
The Laymen’s Lounge: Everyday Theology for Everyday Life
I was happy to be interviewed recently for The Laymen’s Lounge, a new site focused on providing everyday theology to encourage and edify Christians in everyday life.
My interview is titled, “Work and the Mundane,” and I get some plugs in for resources by figures including Lester DeKoster, Abraham Kuyper, Herman Bavinck, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Continue Reading...
June 14, 2019
Why you’ll love Acton University (even if you hate conferences)
I don’t like conferences.
I don’t like seminars or conventions, either. I also don’t like colloquiums, symposiums, forums, or summits. I love people (really, I do) and I love discussions about ideas. Continue Reading...
June 14, 2019
The BBC scraps free TV for the elderly: A lesson from Boxer in ‘Animal Farm’
The BBC is renowned for its educational programming, but its most valuable lesson is being presented on a global stage right now. The BBC is facing backlash for doing away with a universal beneft for the elderly and, in the process, teaching an audience of millions how government programs really work. Continue Reading...
June 14, 2019
PowerLinks 06.14.19
How the US Is Promoting Religious Liberty Around the World
Daniel Davis, The Daily Signal
Around the world, religious liberty remains under threat. In China, a million Uighurs Muslims are now in internment camps—and it’s not the only nation where there’s no true freedom of religion. Continue Reading...
June 13, 2019
New French language article: « Bonne nouvelle, même les socialistes aiment le marché libre! »
The Acton Institute’s Religion & Liberty Transatlantic website has published its second article translated into French: « Bonne nouvelle, même les socialistes aiment le marché libre! »
It is a translation of the article, “Great news: Even ‘socialists’ love the free market (poll),” which notes that the same Gallup poll showing socialism’s growing popularity also finds that the vast majority of Americans trust the free market, rather than the government, to regulate the economy. Continue Reading...
June 13, 2019
Why Simonetti is wrong to slander David French
We live in a strange age when good Christian men are slandered in defense of men of low character. Still, I would have never suspected to see such calumny on the Acton PowerBlog. Continue Reading...
June 13, 2019
Why not to be a “polite” conservative in the age of French/Ahmari debate
The debate surrounding David French-ism started by New York Post’s Sohrab Ahmari in First Things is, in my view, less about content — or political proposals, to use another term — than about the future and, to a large extent, the recent past of the American Conservative movement. Continue Reading...
June 13, 2019
PowerLinks 06.13.19
How Adam Smith became a (surprising) hero to conservative economists
Glory M. Liu, Aeon
Whatever your political leanings, one thing is clear: Smith speaks on both sides of a longstanding debate about the fundamental values of modern market-oriented society. Continue Reading...