Dan Hugger is Librarian and Research Associate at the Acton Institute.
Posts by Dan Hugger
December 11, 2019
This week’s Acton Commentary, adapted from my preface to the newest Acton Institute publication
The Humane Economist: A Wilhelm Röpke Reader, illustrates what makes Röpke such an interesting and vital economist:
Röpke saw his project in holistic terms involving intersecting and interdependent spheres or
orden that to be fully appreciated and understood scientifically must be examined in their economic, social, and moral dimensions.
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December 04, 2019
Senator Marco Rubio’s interest in Catholic social teaching is exciting even if confused in its economic analysis and public policy recommendations. On the Acton Line Podcast released today I discuss with Fr.
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November 27, 2019
In this week’s Acton Commentary I examine Sen. Marco Rubio’s case for “Common-Good Capitalism”:
Americans are searching for answers for the disintegration of the family, falling participation in religious and civic institutions, drug dependency, suicide, and economic dislocation.
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November 25, 2019
Stephanie Slade writes in next month’s edition of
Reason Magazine about, ‘Regulation and ‘the Right Ordering of Economic Life” according to Catholic social teaching:
The Church’s surprising lesson for partisans of big government is that the best tools for correctly ordering economic life are found in the choices of individual market actors.
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November 19, 2019
I try to guard my attention closely for, as King Solomon admonishes, “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.” (Proverbs 4:23). I don’t always succeed, but on my best days I focus on things I truly wish to understand through diligent study and things which I am able to do something about.
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November 13, 2019
In this week’s Acton Commentary I explore Presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris’s proposal to federalize day care to align school and work schedules as, “an economic growth and child development strategy”:
Economists, politicians, and even everyday people often talk of “the economy” as if it were a separate and distinct thing from the values, choices, and actions of everyday people.
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November 08, 2019
I’m just about halfway through my third reading of Umberto Eco’s marvelous first novel
The Name of the Rose. Every time I return to it I find something new. It is a murder mystery set in a medieval monastery but it is also so much more.
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November 01, 2019
Early last month there was a great debate over the question “What is Liberalism?” on the Free Thoughts Podcast. The debate was between Helena Rosenblatt, professor of history at City University of New York and Daniel Klein, professor of economics at George Mason University.
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October 25, 2019
Last night I gave an address at The Grand Castle in Grandville, Michigan on the occasioning of its library opening. I spoke on the importance of books and libraries. As the Librarian and a Research Associate at the Acton Institute it is a topic of professional interest but is also an abiding private passion.
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October 15, 2019
In last week’s Acton Commentary I expressed my hope that LeBron James wouldn’t just shut up and dribble in the wake of NBA appeasement and a coordinated sports media blackout regarding the protest movement in Hong Kong.
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