Dan Hugger is Librarian and Research Associate at the Acton Institute.
Posts by Dan Hugger
March 04, 2021
Ideas are inherently social. Teaching and learning, talking and listening, and all forms of salutary social change are cooperative. As the prophets teach, “Do two walk together, unless they have agreed to meet?”
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February 23, 2021
On Monday, a grim milestone was passed: 500,000 COVID-19 deaths have been reported in just over a year since the arrival of the pandemic in the United States. President Joe Biden has ordered the American flag to be flown at half-staff on public buildings and grounds until sunset on Friday.
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February 18, 2021
Imagine a world where you log into your social media account and find pictures of babies, discussion of ideas, notifications from community groups with which you are involved, updates from family and friends, and cat memes.
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February 08, 2021
On Monday, the automaker Tesla Inc. announced that it had acquired $1.5 billion in Bitcoin and may accept the cryptocurrency as a form of payment in the near future. The business intelligence software company MicroStrategy began purchasing large amounts of Bitcoin last August.
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January 10, 2021
Sunday January 10, 2021, is Lord Acton’s 187th birthday. This difficult era of a global pandemic, a crisis in institutions, and civil unrest seem strange times indeed to look back on the life and legacy of a Victorian historian of ideas – but, as Lord Acton himself remarked, “if the Past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and surest emancipation.”
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November 13, 2020
The Acton Institute’s Mini-Grants on Free Market Economics: Research & Teaching program continues for the upcoming 2021 academic year, and the application is now live. This grant program is intended to enhance the effectiveness of research and teaching about market economics for faculty at colleges, universities, and seminaries in the United States and Canada.
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September 29, 2020
Much of our national debate around the COVID-19 pandemic and the appropriate government response to it has been framed as opposition between those who say they follow “science” and those who do not.
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September 24, 2020
In recognition of Gregory M. Collins’ outstanding research in the fields of ethics, politics and economics, the Acton Institute will be awarding him the 2020 Novak Award.
Gregory M. Collins is a postdoctoral associate and lecturer in the program on ethics, politics, and economics at Yale University.
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September 01, 2020
Widespread civil unrest, social media fueled hysteria, and political polarization have infected our public life. Vice President Joe Biden suggested on Monday that these problems have been fomented by his opponent.
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August 25, 2020
Karl Marx famously concluded in his 1845
Theses On Feuerbach with his eleventh thesis: “Philosophers have hitherto only
interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to
change it.” How this change from analysis to activism can be justified in light of Marx’s own materialist conception of history is an enduring puzzle.
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