Joe Carter is a Senior Editor at the Acton Institute. Joe also serves as an editor at the The Gospel Coalition, a communications specialist for the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, and as an adjunct professor of journalism at Patrick Henry College. He is the editor of the NIV Lifehacks Bible and co-author of How to Argue like Jesus: Learning Persuasion from History's Greatest Communicator (Crossway).
Posts by Joe Carter
February 08, 2019
5 Ways to Teach Liberty to Young Children
Nancy Littlefield,
FEE
The best way to preserve liberty for posterity is to make sure that those going into the future understand its importance.
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February 07, 2019
Surging Wealth Inequality Is Poverty’s Greatest Enemy
John Tamny,
Mises Wire
The rich get rich by virtue of making what’s dear rather cheap, thus helping the poor the most.
Millennials Aren’t as Cause-Oriented as You May Think
Grant Skeldon,
TGC
If young people are looking for a cause community, then they should look no further than the church.
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February 06, 2019
Last night President Trump delivered his second State of the Union address before Congress. And within hours media outlets had already produced dozens of articles fact-checking the claims made by the president.
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February 06, 2019
Solzhenitsyn on the One Thing Marxism Can’t Control—The Soul
Bruce Ashford
Whether or not one had rejected the Marxist view, he argues, is the decisive factor in whether one’s soul ascended or descended under the horrors of camp life.
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February 05, 2019
Note: This is post #109 in a weekly video series on basic economics.
Rather than moving at a steady pace, economic growth ebbs and flows and has booms and busts. Economists refer to these ups and downs around a country’s long-term GDP growth trend as “business fluctuations.”
In this video by Marginal Revolution University, Alex Tabarrok discusses one of the most significant forms of fluctuations: recessions.
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February 05, 2019
The Crumbling Anti-Politics of Constitutional Patriotism
Samuel Gregg,
Law and Liberty
The Kantian dream of undoing real nations keeps foundering on the shoals of human nature’s need for real attachments to place.
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February 04, 2019
The Kantian dream of undoing real nations keeps foundering on the shoals of human nature’s need for real attachments to place, says Acton research director Samuel Gregg in a new article for
Law & Liberty:
If there’s anything that political earthquakes like Brexit and the ongoing spread of nationalist feeling throughout the European Union demonstrates, it’s that popular support for Europe’s integration project is floundering.
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February 04, 2019
On a recent episode of this Fox News show, Tucker Carlson called on Congress to ban smartphones for children.
Those who assume Carlson is still a conservative might be confused by his abandonment of limited government and his embrace of a nanny-state policy.
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February 04, 2019
How Populist Progressives Ignore the Unseen
John O. McGinnis,
Law and Liberty
What separates a wise political economist or politician from a foolish one is the ability to consider the unseen consequences of their policies.
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February 01, 2019
Contrary to the trite assertion made every year by people who don’t know how to appreciate football, it is not really true that the commercials are the best thing about the Super Bowl (at least not always).
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