Dan Hugger is Librarian and Research Associate at the Acton Institute.
Posts by Dan Hugger
October 14, 2019
Kai Weiss, Research Fellow at the Austrian Economics Center, has a new essay on
Law and Liberty exploring Lord Acton’s thoughts on nationalism:
A little-known 1862 work called
Nationality by Lord Acton can perhaps shed new light, too, on the topic.
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October 09, 2019
In this week’s Acton Commentary I discuss the raging controversy between the National Basketball Association, Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey, and China. Morey’s since deleted tweet expressing solidarity for the protest movement in Hong Kong led to criticism from the the Chinese regime, Chinese firms which sponsor the NBA, and NBA team owners.
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September 17, 2019
I am in the curious position of being a blogger who distrusts opinions. The late yoga master B.K.S. Iyengar put it best when he wrote, “An opinion is yesterday’s right or wrong knowledge warmed up and re-served for today’s situation.”
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September 11, 2019
Thirty five years ago the American novelist Thomas Pynchon asked the question, “Is It O.K. To Be A Luddite?” The occasion was the then 25th anniversary of C.P. Snow’s Rede Lecture, “The Two Cultures of the Scientific Revolution,” which argued, way back in 1959, that our culture was increasingly polarized into “literary” and “scientific” factions unable to understand each other.
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August 28, 2019
Jordan Ballor recently brought to my attention this remarkable passage from Michael Novak’s
The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism, “Our moral and cultural traditions have not kept pace with our economic possibilities.
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August 19, 2019
Kimberly Uslin reports on the discovery of a of previously unknown manuscript by the philosopher John Locke
at the Greenfield Library at St. John’s College:
According to Walmsley and Waldmann, this was the first major discovery of new work by Locke in a generation.
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August 09, 2019
Deutsche Bank, once one of the giants of European finance, is in deep financial trouble. Matt Egan of CNN Business helpfully summarizes the difficulties,
Germany’s biggest lender is rapidly slashing jobs, it’s losing a ton of money and the stock is trading near all-time lows.
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August 05, 2019
There are several things, universally known, which one is never supposed to discuss over dinner: religion, politics, and money. I violate this generally well regarded rule on a regular basis while never impeding my digestion.
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July 23, 2019
Economics is often dismissed as ideological, reductionist, and mendacious. In the United States we see these criticisms increasingly from both the political left and right. This should come as no surprise as the lessons of economics have implications for the prudential decisions that make up much of our political life.
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July 16, 2019
Sarah Kliff did some fine reporting on, ‘The Lessons of Washington State’s Watered Down ‘Public Option’’ for the New York Times last month,
For those who dream of universal health care, Washington State looks like a pioneer.
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