Acton Institute continues its Mini-Grants on Free Market Economics program to support college faculty for research and teaching
iStock With the application now live, the successful Mini-Grants on Free Market Economics: Research & Teaching continues for the 2019 year. This grant program is intended to enhance the effectiveness in the research and teaching of market economics for faculty at colleges, universities, and seminaries in the United States and Canada. With minimal application requirements and a streamlined application process, there is an ample amount of time to prepare your ponents and apply by the March 31, 2019 deadline. The...
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Global Warming Consensus alert: I hope your earth hour party was as crazy as mine!
It’s been a while since we’ve seen pletely meaningless gesture on behalf of the unsinkable global warming consensus. As such, it’s my pleasure to announce that the next meaningless gesture will occur… last Saturday? Oops. Yes, Saturday evening saw the arrival of Earth Hour, an 8-9 pm extravaganza of switching off lights that apparently not many people knew about. For example, here’s the local reaction from the Grand Rapids Press: …some of Grand Rapids’ most prominent environmentalists, including Mayor George...
Spending the stimulus
Last week the Providence Journal ran a piece by me on the ing “rebate” checks from the government intended to be an economic stimulus, “The mandate is to ‘spend all you can’.” I take issue with the idea that the government gives us money that is our own in the first place, and then tells us how we ought to spend it: on consumables and retail goods to spur growth in the economy. Instead, I propose that people “should use...
CAGW names names
Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) has released their “Pig Book” for 2008, which is an pilation of the pork-barrel projects in the federal budget. The 2008 Pig Book identified 11,610 projects at a cost of $17.2 billion in the 12 Appropriations Acts for fiscal 2008. A ‘pork’ project is a line-item in an appropriations bill that designates tax dollars for a specific purpose in circumvention of established budgetary procedures.” According to CAGW, “despite last year’s ethics and lobbying ‘reform,’ pork-barrel...
Humans and hybrids
In recent years the UK has emerged as a key player in both genetic experimentation and in corresponding legal battles over the extent to which the government ought to regulate such research. The latest ing from across the pond involves passage of a bill legalizing the creation of human-animal hybrids with certain restrictions (regarding type and length of survival). Three members of the governing cabinet were “reportedly considering resignation if forced to back the Bill.” Controversy arose over the call...
New Deal for April Fools
Last month marked the 75th anniversary of the beginning of FDR’s “New Deal”. The Great Depression is the most famous event in U.S. macro-economic history. Most or all of my students know that it happened in the first half of the 20th century. They have no sense of what caused it– except perhaps to lay blame on the 1929 stock market crash. And they have a vague sense that the New Deal policies of FDR were helpful in ending it....
The burden of Italian red tape
In yesterday’s Wall Street Journal Europe, Alberto Mingardi of Istituto Bruno Leoni (and long-time Acton friend) lists some of the reforms Italy needs to boost economic growth, which is forecast at a measly 0.6 – 0.8 percent for 2008. Mingardi advocates a number of tax cuts and a more determined privatization of state assets. Some of these issues are being discussed – timidly – in the current election campaign; Mingardi also focuses on de-regulation and de-bureaucratization, issues heretofore neglected by...
Straight talk on poverty & the family
A call to end poverty through more spending by the federal government is forever professed by some candidates and politicians. Maybe, they say, if just more money was appropriated and distributed this time, the results and relief for those in financial need would be conclusively different? Former President Clinton at least ran for office as a “new Democrat,” went on to declare the end of the era of big government, and signed welfare reform. Clinton was the first Democrat to...
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A Higher
　　The past five years have been tumultuous ones for elite higher education. Campuses have been rocked by plagiarism scandals, ugly and violent protests, and revelations about admissions discrimination that went on under the guise of affirmative action. Meanwhile, reformers are trying out new approaches, from civics institutes to more robust legislative oversight of public universities to brand-new private institutions. How...
May 2, 2026
Honor My Husband...How Do I Do That?
　　Honor My Husband... How Do I Do That? 　　By Gina Smith 　　“It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome woman.” – Proverbs 21:19 　　“An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain. She does him...
May 2, 2026
The Fear of Missing Out
　　“Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.” Hebrews 10:23 　　Sitting in my living room, I often drift off into my own thoughts. I wonder what other people are doing today and how much more they are living life to the fullest. Due to depression and fear, I often self-isolate myself. Self-isolation has...
May 2, 2026
Frank Capra’s Halloween Classic
　　Halloween has gradually become an occasion for horror movies, even as it has emerged as part of a new kind of autumn-worship very well catered to by every aspect of our commercial society. It may, in a secularizing America, even be making a run at Christmas’s place as the national holiday. Both of these tendencies somehow come from our rejection...
May 2, 2026
Common Law Conservatism
　　As the West supposedly undergoes a “political realignment,” many thinkers from the right-of-center have attempted to reassess the meaning of conservatism. Some propose we abandon our commitments to market economics, while others seek to double down on classical liberalism. Unfortunately, relatively few of these debates focus on what might be the most operative of conservative institutions today: the common law....
May 2, 2026
How to Stay Peaceful through Election Day and Beyond
　　How to Stay Peaceful through Election Day and Beyond 　　By Lynette Kittle 　　Bible Reading 　　“If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.” - Romans 12:18 　　Political divisiveness in our nation is at blood boiling temperatures, where rather than just having differing viewpoints between people, there is a growing disdain towards those who...
May 2, 2026
What Is Reformation Day and How Can Christians Remember It?
　　What Is Reformation Day and How Can Christians Remember It? 　　By Lynette Kittle 　　Bible Reading 　　“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God.” - Ephesians 2:8 　　Some may wonder what Reformation Day is all about and why it is considered such a big deal in Church...
May 2, 2026
The Roots of Jeffersons Union
　　It is hard to think of a less conservative approach to cultural continuity and civilizational inheritance than Thomas Jefferson’s claim: “The earth belongs always to the living generation. … Every constitution, then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force and not of right.” Such claims...
May 2, 2026
We Are Placed Where We Are on Purpose (John 7:28)
　　BIBLE VERSE OF THE DAY:So Jesus proclaimed, as he taught in the temple, “You know me, and you know where I come from. But I have not come of my own accord. He who sent me is true, and him you do not know. -John 7:28 　　We are Placed Where We are on Purpose 　　By Meg Bucher 　　The hallway light...
May 2, 2026
The Coming Drone Wars
　　Halfa league, half a league, 　　Half a league onward, 　　All in the valley of Death 　　Rode the six hundred. 　　Charge, was the captains cry; 　　Theirs not to reason why, 　　Theirs not to make reply, 　　Theirs but to do and die, 　　Into the valley of Death 　　Rode the six hundred. 　　– Alfred, Lord Tennyson,The Charge of the Light Brigade, 1856 　　Tennyson’s...
May 2, 2026
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