Dan Hugger is Librarian and Research Associate at the Acton Institute.
Posts by Dan Hugger
March 30, 2020
People all around the world have embraced new responsibilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some continue to work providing needed goods and services, while others are discovering new ways their work can meet those needs while they are physically distant from their colleagues and those whom they serve.
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March 25, 2020
Earlier this week, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer issued a “stay at home” order in an effort to slow the spread of COVID-19. As a result, many people have taken on new responsibilities and challenges in addition to their existing duties.
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March 18, 2020
As the COVID-19 pandemic affects more and more people across the globe, there are many duties that become plain to us as individuals, communities, and citizens. Many workplaces have innovated in response to these challenges, and churches have looked to the past for inspiration to bring hope to our present.
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March 11, 2020
While seeing is believing,
being is best. Being who you are is a lifetime’s work. This has been in the forefront of my mind this past month, as each week I’ve been turning out reading lists on natural law, how to think like an economist, and how to think and talk about politics.
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March 03, 2020
When people talk about politics, they are usually discussing passions and interests, often with a whole lot of passion and interest. This is why prohibitions exist in polite society against talking about politics.
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February 21, 2020
Everyone knows that there is a difference between knowing about something and knowing how to do something. The first is a superficial way of knowing, not a bad way to begin, but it is no substitute for the mastery which comes by integrating knowledge into experience.
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February 13, 2020
One of the occupational hazards of being a librarian is that people are always asking you for book recommendations. The truth is that recommending books is more difficult than it seems.
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January 28, 2020
Are churches tax exempt as a matter of privilege or right? What does tax exception cost communities and churches?
Christianity Today has been hosting an interesting debate on these issues. Paul Matzko, Assistant Editor for Tech and Innovation at the CATO Institute, argued in the cover story of this month’s issue that tax exemption comes at a high a cost to the communities in which they are located:
This feeling that churches don’t contribute to the common good is not uncommon in America.
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January 23, 2020
During a Martin Luther King Day discussion with the writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., made clear that she is not just a democratic socialist but a Marxian one. Evie Fordham of Fox Business has written a helpful summary of the remarks, including Ocasio-Cortez’s concise explanation of the Marxist theory of the exploitation of labor:
“No one ever makes a billion dollars.
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January 21, 2020
Note: An expanded version of this post was released as this week’s Acton Commentary.
This week, Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Bernie Sanders, I-VT, tweeted the following reaction to a story from
The Economist describing rising American rent payments:
This is a crisis.
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