Acton Institute Powerblog Archives

Post Tagged 'c.s. lewis'

July 07, 2026

AI, or This Stranger We Keep Inventing

At the end of Terminator 2, the machine lowers itself into a crucible of molten steel, gives the thumbs-up it learned from a child, and disappears. It is one of the strangest images American cinema has produced: a killing machine that learned to love and chose its own unmaking so that the future might live. Continue Reading...
April 30, 2026

C.S. Lewis and the Dance of Masculine and Feminine

Debates about gender within and without the Church tend to operate on a hidden fear: If gender is real in some way, then that might lead to an artificially rigid understanding of gender roles—for example, women must stay in the kitchen and men must work outside the home, as if every age were the 1950s, complete with Sunbeam Mixmasters and assembly lines. Continue Reading...
March 19, 2026

Seeking God at the End of the World

Is the end of the world drawing nigh? This is the question at the heart of Christopher Beha’s 2020 blockbuster novel, The Index of Self-Destructive Acts. A deranged-looking street preacher appears at the beginning of the novel, predicting the end times, setting a concrete date to the end of it all. Continue Reading...
December 23, 2025

A Book That Will Shock You

Dr. Michael Pakaluk, a philosopher and professor at the Catholic University of America, has written 11 books, but somehow this was the first to make it into my hands. Pakaluk is a bit of a legend in certain circles. Continue Reading...
October 09, 2025

Taking Charles Murray Seriously

All happy conversion stories are alike. Every unhappy conversion story is unhappy in its own way. Is how Tolstoy might have put it, if he weren’t, you know, dead. Charles Murray, he of Bell Curve fame and attendant controversy, has gotten religion. Continue Reading...
June 13, 2025

Of Fathers and Friends

Every man needs a father and friends. Sadly, both seem to be in short supply these days. My own father is a great man. He’s not perfect, famous, educated, or wealthy. Continue Reading...