Website Privacy Policy

This privacy policy sets out how we, the website operator, collect, store and use any personal information we collect from you, or that you provide to us, through our website.

Collection of Personal Information

We may collect personal information about you when you use our website, for instance, when you contact us via email, or when you fill in a contact form on our website. The personal information we may collect includes your name, email address, and any other information you choose to provide to us.

Use of Personal Information

We use the personal information we collect from you for the following purposes:

a) to provide you with the information or services you request;

b) to process and respond to your inquiries and requests;

c) to send you marketing emails or newsletters if you have opted in to receive them;

d) for internal recordkeeping; and

e) to improve our services and website.

Disclosure of Personal Information

We may disclose your personal information to any third party if we are required to do so by law, or if we believe that such disclosure is necessary to protect our rights or the rights of others.

Retention of Personal Information

We will retain your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy. We will delete your personal information when it is no longer required, or when you request that it be deleted.

Access to and Correction of Personal Information

You have the right to request access to the personal information that we hold about you. If your personal information is incorrect or incomplete, you may request that it be corrected. To access or correct your personal information, please contact us using the contact details provided below.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies

Our website may use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect information about your use of our website. Cookies are small files that are placed on your computer or device when you visit our website. We use cookies to track your use of our website, remember your preferences, and improve your user experience. We may also use cookies to serve targeted advertising and measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns. You can set your browser to refuse cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. However, if you disable cookies, some features of our website may not function properly. We do not collect personal information for the purpose of targeting advertising. We do not sell or disclose any information about your use of our website to third parties.

Security of Personal Information

We take reasonable measures to protect the personal information we collect from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. However, please note that no internet transmission is ever fully secure or error-free. In particular, email sent to or from our website may not be secure. Therefore, you should take special care in deciding what information you send to us via email. Please keep this in mind when disclosing any personal information online, especially via email.

Links
‘Call of the Philanthropist’
The new issue of Philanthropy Magazine features a cover story on Frank Hanna, vice chairman of the Acton Institute board of directors, and winner of the 2007 William E. Simon Prize for Philanthropic Leadership. The story is titled “Call of the Philanthropist,” a play on Acton’s Call of the Entrepreneur documentary, which features Hanna prominently. The lengthy profile by Christopher Levenick offers insights into Hanna’s philanthropic activities and his philosophy of giving. Rev. Robert Sirico is quoted extensively, as are...
Fair Trade’s Faded Facade
The Free Exchange blog at (HT) concludes a long and thoughtful post on fair trade, specifically in response to this recent NYT article, “Fair Trade in Bloom,” by wondering: And how does this affect coffee supply? If a premium is available for fair-trade coffee, shouldn’t other growers enter the market to take advantage of it until the price of coffee is bid down to market levels, leaving total producer take–baseline coffee price plus premium–where it stood before? Such a scenario...
Clarence Thomas Interviews
You are probably aware by now that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has published a memoir. The interview-avoiding judge has lately been giving, as Kathryn Jean Lopez puts it, “a lifetime of interviews.” Given the controversy surrounding his public life since his nomination to the Court, not much remains to be said about him, good or bad, that has not already been said. Suffice it to say that I draw attention to him now because: 1) My own view is...
‘The Idolatry of the Porn Worldview’
The folks over at the Reformation21 blog, produced of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, have a great discussion going about the spiritual, cultural, and pastoral implications of pornography (here, here, and here). The first post takes up the Naomi Wolf article, “The Porn Myth,” which also occasioned in part my reflections on the pornification of culture in general and technology in particular. Carl Trueman aptly wonders (in the second post), Could it be that pornography is the ultimate free market...
Positive Freedom and Paternal Government
A quote from T. H. Green, refuting the view that the law’s “only business is to prevent interference with the liberty of the individual,” construed as doing what you like as long as it does not infringe on others’ rights to do what they want. Green writes: The true ground of objection to ‘paternal government’ is not that it violates the ‘laissez faire’ principle and conceives that its office is to make people good, to promote morality, but that it...
Journal of Markets & Morality, Volume 10, Issue 1
This issue of the Journal of Markets & Morality features a scholia translation of Cardinal Cajetan’s (1469-1534) influential treatise On Exchanging Money (1499). Cajetan is the author of the officially mentaries on the Summa of Thomas Aquinas, which are easily available in the magnificent Leonine edition of this magnum opus. He is even more famous as the papal legate whom Leo X (1513-1521) dispatched to Germany in a futile effort to bring Martin Luther back into the Roman fold. Economic...
Abandon SCHIP: Big Government Returns
The mammoth Congressional expansion of SCHIP is such a bad idea, even the normally big spending President Bush vetoed the bill. I wrote a piece titled, “Abandon SCHIP: Big Government Returns,” which is now available on the Acton Website. The political posturing concerning the program has reached a troubling level. Supporters are using using kids as props to usher in socialized medicine and government expansion. But one of the main problems with the bill is the regressive characteristic of the...
Pentecostalism, Poverty, and the Global South
Related to last week’s post about Reformed education and Pentecostalism, I point you to this post by Rod Dreher, who discusses his interview with Josiah Idowu-Fearon, the Anglican Archbishop of Kaduna state in Nigeria. Dreher relates the following: Pentecostalism is growing like wildfire, but there’s less to it than you might think. He said that in many cases, people are drawn to the emotional experience, and can tell you exactly when they gave their life to Jesus — but can’t...
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