Joshua Gregor is International Relations Assistant at the Acton Institute. Before coming to Acton he received a BA in philosophy from the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome and an MA in linguistics from Indiana University.
Posts by Joshua Gregor
November 01, 2019
Alejandro Chafuen, Acton’s Managing Director, International, published a piece in Forbes yesterday on the place of state-owned enterprises in international trade. The question also extends to industries that, even if not owned by the state, are significantly influenced by government interests, regulation, and so on.
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October 21, 2019
Alejandro Chafuen, Acton’s Managing Director, International, wrote recently in Forbes to give his thoughts on a recent survey that examined young Europeans’ attitudes toward various strains of totalitarianism. Attitudes in different countries vary, of course, and – unsurprisingly – communism is viewed more favorably in countries that were never behind the Iron Curtain than in many eastern ones where the historical memory of it lives on.
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October 14, 2019
Sports have already been an Acton topic in the past week, so another sports story can’t hurt: 100 years ago this month was the 1919 World Series between the Chicago White Sox and Cincinnati Reds, infamous ever since for the “Black Sox” scandal, in which eight members of the heavily favored Chicago team accepted money from gamblers to throw the series to Cincinnati.
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October 01, 2019
“We have a sense that, actually, we do not have to be redeemed by Christianity but, rather, from Christianity,” wrote Pope Benedict XVI in an outstanding essay first published in English last year with the title
Salvation: More Than a Cliché? Continue Reading...
September 19, 2019
On this date in 1796, near the end of his second term as president, George Washington published
The Address of Gen. Washington to the People of America on His Declining the Presidency of the United States. Continue Reading...
September 17, 2019
Acton’s own Alejandro Chafuen recently returned from a visit to England, and today in
Forbes he offers a few of his impressions and analyses of the contentious Brexit process. The political machinations of the current situation are seemingly endless, but its ramifications are more than just political.
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September 13, 2019
Why is it that the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century is so often our go-to mental paradigm for poverty? CapX’s John Ashmore, for instance, recently wrote of those who “feel an argument about poverty is incomplete without claiming we’ve somehow gone back to the 19th century.” Were there no poor people before that?
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August 29, 2019
Alejandro Chafuen, Acton’s Managing Director, International, attended last month’s inaugural National Conservatism conference in Washington, DC, sponsored by the Edmund Burke Foundation. Today in Forbes he offers a few reflections on the event.
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August 09, 2019
Luc Plamondon’s
Le Temps des cathédrales, the opening number of the 1998 musical
Notre-Dame de Paris, ends on a somber note somewhat at odds with the rest of the song:
But it is doomed, the age of the cathedrals. Continue Reading...
July 22, 2019
For most of the 20th century, Marxism set its sights on state authority and openly political and economic goals. In more recent decades, though, many proponents of Marxism and other socialist stripes have sought to sow change on a societal and cultural level – a trend which some have termed “cultural Marxism.” Two authors who not only condemned Marxism but also saw its cultural transition early on are Monsignor Fernando Ocáriz Braña, current prelate of Opus Dei, and Rev.
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