Joshua Gregor is International Relations Assistant at the Acton Institute.
Posts by Joshua Gregor
February 20, 2019
No one event prompted me to write about this topic—it is a general, and certainly growing, impression. But a glance at various happenings in recent years gives some indication of what I want to comment on.
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February 20, 2019
Yesterday in
Forbes, Alejandro Chafuen, Acton’s Managing Director, International, weighed in on Jair Bolsonaro’s new administration in Brazil. Bolsonaro’s coalition includes people of many different backgrounds and ideas, and collaboration among them will be key for the administration’s success.
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February 12, 2019
Though certainly not well known in North America, Juan Bautista Alberdi is a towering figure in the history of Argentina. He was a major influence on the Argentine constitution and was an intellectual force in 19th-century South America.
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February 05, 2019
Last week the Think Tank and Civil Societies Program at the University of Pennsylvania released their 2018 think tank rankings. These results rank think tanks both overall and by category, with various classifications according to geography, policy focus, and so on.
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January 18, 2019
“Most urgently of all,” asked George Weigel in
The Cube and the Cathedral, “why is Europe committing demographic suicide?” Weigel’s book was published almost fifteen years ago, but his question on Europe’s infertility is as urgent as ever—even more urgent now, in fact.
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January 09, 2019
Alejandro Chafuen, Acton’s Managing Director, International, describes in
Forbes how a good businessman ought to be first a good man. The principles that guided François Michelin apply not only in business but also in personal life.
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January 03, 2019
John Locke is well-known as a philosopher. Perhaps less well-known, though, are the religious convictions that underlie many of his ideas. Alejandro Chafuen, Acton’s Managing Director, International, recently published an article in
Forbes describing the influence of Locke’s Christianity on his views of the human person.
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December 04, 2018
Interpreting works of literature is always a dicey task—it’s all too easy to find the conclusions we want to find and turn authors into spokesmen for our own ideas. In these reflections on Victor Hugo’s
Les Misèrables, I don’t claim that what I say is necessarily what Hugo himself intended.
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November 28, 2018
Not one of Benjamin Franklin’s better-known works, but one worth reading nonetheless, is a brief 1751 essay called
Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, &c. Franklin covers a lot of ground in just a few pages, and brings up quite a few ideas worth commenting on, but I wanted to highlight one paragraph and its relevance for the “birth dearth” we see in the West today.
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November 27, 2018
The following article is written by Ignacio Ibáñez of Red Floridablanca and translated by Joshua Gregor.
On behalf of Red Floridablanca, I would like to thank the Acton Institute for translating and publishing this series of articles, which I had the honor to coordinate, to commemorate the 170th anniversary of the death of Father Jaime Balmes (Vic, Spain, 1810-1848). Continue Reading...
