January 29, 2014
November 14, 2013
Richard Weaver on Liberty and Christianity
Richard Weaver, one of the great intellectuals of the 20th Century, and author of Ideas Have Consequences, published an essay in the early 1960s on Lord Acton (pdf only). Much of Weaver’s essay is worth highlighting, but one excerpt in particular reminds us of the central significance of Christianity in the battle for freedom. Continue Reading...
October 31, 2013
Reformation and the Need for Truth
Martin Luther “did more than any single man to make modern history the development of revolution,” declared Lord Acton. (Lectures on Modern History) The Protestant Reformation profoundly changed the trajectory of Western Civilization. Continue Reading...
August 06, 2013
Lord Acton and America’s Moral Absolutes Concerning Liberty
Lord Acton once said of the American revolution: “No people was so free as the insurgents, no government less oppressive than the government which they overthrew.” It was America’s high view of liberty and its ideas that cultivated this unprecedented freedom ripe for flourishing. Continue Reading...
May 16, 2013
Senator Cornyn Quotes Lord Acton on Abuse of Power
May 03, 2013
Justice Scalia Echoes Lord Acton’s Warning on Corrupting Power
September 14, 2012
Speed Cameras and Moral Culture
September 11, 2012
Review: A Free People’s Suicide
July 17, 2012
Os Guinness on Solzhenitsyn and Truth
July 01, 2011
Coolidge and ‘the best ideas of democracy’
If we are to maintain the great heritage which has been bequeathed to us, we must be like-minded as the fathers who created it. — Calvin Coolidge.
The Wall Street Journal published today a timely, and much needed, reflection by Leon Kass on Calvin Coolidge’s address delivered at the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 1926. Continue Reading...