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Video: Samuel Gregg on Tea Party Catholic at the Acton Lecture Series
Video: Samuel Gregg on Tea Party Catholic at the Acton Lecture Series
Feb 11, 2026 8:07 AM

Samuel Gregg, Director of Research at the Acton Institute and author ing Europe: Economic Decline, Culture, and How America can Avoid a European Future, and more recentlyTea Party Catholic:The Catholic Case for Limited Government, a Free Economy, and Human Flourishing, delivered a lecture on November 7th in the Acton Building’s Mark Murray Auditorium focusing on the subject of his latest book as part of the 2013 Acton Lecture Series. We’ve embedded the video of his lecture below; if you’re interested in Gregg’s lecture on his earlier book, you can find that one after the jump.

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