The government has the right to remove children who are homeschooled from their parents’ custody if authorities believe their parents will not teach children “tolerance,” the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled last week. Continue Reading...
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January 14, 2019
Toward ‘humanomics’: Deirdre McCloskey on honoring the world of human creation
In her transformative Bourgeois Era trilogy, economist Deirdre McCloskey challenged our popular theories about the causes of our newfound economic prosperity, arguing that it sprung not from new systems, tools, or materials, but rather the ideas, virtues, and rhetoric behind them. Continue Reading...
January 14, 2019
What Christians should know about marginal tax rates
Note: This is the latest entry in the Acton blog series, “What Christians Should Know About Economics.” For other entries in the series see this post.
What it means: A marginal tax rate is the amount of tax paid on an additional dollar of income. Continue Reading...
January 14, 2019
PowerLinks 01.14.19
Protestant Theology and Nations as Moral Communities
Greg Forster, Law and Liberty
Is Nationalism really a unique construction of Protestant theology as Yoram Hazony claims?
How Cities Make Money by Fining the Poor
Matthew Shaer, New York Times
In many parts of America, like Corinth, Miss., judges are locking up defendants who can’t pay — sometimes for months at a time. Continue Reading...
January 11, 2019
C.S. Lewis on how the humanitarian theory of punishment threatens liberty
Over the past decade conservatives have, once again, become champions of criminal justice reform. To some this appears to be a surprising development. Why would conservatives, the self-proclaimed champions of law and order, have concern for the treatment of criminals? Continue Reading...
January 11, 2019
A call for harmony — and a demand for truth
Pope Francis’ recent Christmas message, ‘Urbi et Orbi’, was a meditation on the roots of fraternity in the incarnation:
What does that Child, born for us of the Virgin Mary, have to tell us? Continue Reading...
January 11, 2019
Samuel Gregg: Bringing natural law to the nations
“If sovereign states ordered their domestic affairs in accordance with principles of natural law,” says Acton research director Samuel Gregg at Law & Liberty, “the international sphere would benefit greatly.”
During periods of resurgent national feeling, it’s common for enthusiasts of liberal international order and human rights activists to begin emphasizing the importance of international law and the way they think it should guide and restrain the choices of nations. Continue Reading...
January 11, 2019
Is a no-deal Brexit a ‘moral failure’?
After a long postponement, the UK Parliament has resumed its debate leading up to the “meaningful vote” on Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal. As of this writing, the unpopular compromise is predicted to fail by an historically large margin – and some clerics consider this not just unfortunate but immoral. Continue Reading...
January 11, 2019
PowerLinks 01.11.19
Trump signs law to pump $430 million into anti-human trafficking efforts
Dennis Sadowski, Catholic News Service
Nationwide efforts to confront human trafficking received a boost in the new year as President Donald Trump signed a bill reauthorizing federal expenditures for prevention and assistance programs across the federal government. Continue Reading...
January 10, 2019
How economics is like Christianity
Christianity is a very other-directed religion. It requires those of us who are Christians to love our neighbors as we love ourselves (Mark 12:31). We are even required to love our enemies and appeal to God on behalf of those who persecute us (Matthew 5:44). Continue Reading...
