Michael Matheson Miller is a Senior Research Fellow at the Acton Institute
Posts by Michael Matheson Miller
May 29, 2019
At the recent Vatican meeting of Catholic Charities Pope Francis praised the participants for their concern for the poor and marginalized, but warned them of the danger of “fake charity.”
Carol Glatz writes in Catholic Herald:
Charity is not a sterile service or a simple donation to hand over to put our conscience at ease,” he said.
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May 24, 2019
Here is a podcast interview I did recently with my friend Matt Leonard, host of
The Art of Catholic and Next Level Catholic Academy.
Matt and I talked about some of the foundational ideas of Christian thinking in contrast with the dominant secular way of seeing the world.
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May 07, 2019
I find some of the work of behavioral economists, especially that of Daniel Kahneman to be very interesting and important.
Thinking Fast and Slow is essential reading. His distinctions between what he calls Type I and Type II thinking is very insightful, and the broad critique that human beings don’t always act like rational maximizers is a correct.
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April 24, 2019
This is the season of Jewish Passover and Christian Easter (or Pascha.) This is the time when Jews recall how God passed over their homes and spared their first born, led them dry shod across the Red Sea and saved them from slavery in Egypt.
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April 12, 2019
Mark Zuckerberg has finally admitted he needs help. From the government. After years of shady dealing, data collection, and intentionally designing addictive technologies, Zuckerberg has asked the government to regulate tech.
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April 03, 2019
Here is a piece I wrote for the Stream on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her comments on climate change and whether “it is still ok to have children.”
When an American politician asks if it is still okay to have children, this is something to notice.
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March 22, 2019
NYU Stern professor Amy Webb gave her annual Emerging Tech Trends this week at the South by Southwest conference. (Hat tip to Dan Churchwell for the recommendation.) She highlighted a number of trends from food grown in warehouses and 4D printing to genome editing.
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March 15, 2019
When we think about economics we can tend to immediately focus on mathematics, data, and graphs, but at its core economics is the study of human action in a marketplace. Economics is a human science.
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February 26, 2019
Business Insider reported last week that Google failed to disclose the existence of a microphone in their home security system, NestSecure.
This came as a surprise to many Nest customers who complained that they were not informed that the security system even had a microphone.
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February 13, 2019
President Trump said in a press conference Tuesday that he may postpone the March 1st deadline for the extension of tariffs on Chinese goods as US trade representatives are in China working on a trade agreement.
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