In a recent article in World magazine, Acton senior fellow Marvin Olasky urged evangelical minister Jim Wallis to drop the pretense of being post-partisan. Olasky, World magazine’s editor-in-chief, went on to assert that (1) Wallis’s organization, Sojourners, received money from…

Last month, in “Europe’s Choice: Populate or Perish,” Acton Research Director Samuel Gregg observed:
At a deeper level … Europe’s declining birth-rate may also reflect a change in intellectual horizons. A cultural outlook focused upon the present and disinterested in…

[Yesterday's] Wall Street Journal has a nice piece about the problem of graffiti in Rome and the obstacles to cleaning it all up.
While the graffiti are certainly an eyesore in an otherwise beautiful city, there is also great economic…

The grand lesson of the 20th century is that Big Government retards economic progress.
The evidence of this lesson goes beyond the socialist countries and their dramatic economic failures. Several decades ago, as a young economist, I encountered repeated studies…