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Samuel Gregg: Europe Can’t Face Economic Reality
Protesters outside parliament on May 5 in Athens, Greece. On the blog of The American Spectator, Acton Research Director Samuel Gregg looks at how Europe refuses to address the root causes of its...
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Kishore Jayabalan: Vatican Radio interview on French election
On May 15, Socialist Francois Hollande will be sworn in as France’s new President following elections this past weekend. According to Vatican Radio, Hollande is vowing to overturn many of current...
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Samuel Gregg: Unions and the Path to Irrelevancy
Wis. Gov. Scott WalkerOn National Review Online, Acton Research Director Samuel Gregg demolishes the left’s knee-jerk explanation for labor union decline, which blames “the machinations of conservative...
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Bastiat’s Vision
Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) This Saturday, June 30, is the 211th birthday of Frédéric Bastiat, one of the greatest political philosophers of the modern era. Considered among the founding fathers of...
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Hollande’s ‘Idol of Egalité’
French President François Hollande has promised a 75% tax rate on those in his country who earn an annual salary above one million euros ($1.24 million). Not surprisingly, this number has struck fear...
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Samuel Gregg: United States succumbing to ‘Eurosclerosis?’
New York Post illustrationIn the New York Post, Acton Research Director Samuel Gregg looks at “the spread throughout America of economic expectations and arrangements directly at odds with our...
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Review: Nile Gardiner on ‘Becoming Europe’
In the Washington Times, Nile Gardiner praises Becoming Europe: Economic Decline, Culture, and How America Can Avoid a European Future, the new book by Acton Research Director Samuel Gregg. Gardiner,...
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Like Putting a Beret on a Cowboy
“[He] belongs more in an insane asylum than at the head of a multinational corporation.” That was the reaction by a French union official to an amusingly harsh letter by Maurice Taylor, chief executive...
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Samuel Gregg: California, Illinois and New York Going Euro
In a lengthy interview in the Daily Caller, Acton Research Director Samuel Gregg picks up many of the themes in his terrific new book, Becoming Europe: Economic Decline, Culture, and How America Can...
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Video: Kishore Jayabalan discusses Pope Francis on France 24
Kishore Jayabalan, Director of Instituto Acton in Rome, Italy, joined France 24 News today to discuss the pontificate of Pope Francis I as he assumes his new office of leadership. Read more on Video:...
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Samuel Gregg: The Incredible Shrinking Monsieur Hollande
François HollandeAt The American Spectator, Acton Research Director Samuel Gregg looks at France’s embattled Socialist president, François Hollande, as the first anniversary of his term in office...
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Fleeing France’s Failing Economy
For those of us on this side of the pond, France conjures up images of baguettes, beautiful women and lush countryside. For the French, the image conjured up might be taxes, taxes and more taxes.Read...
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France: What Not To Do
Since the French Revolution, Americans have glanced over to our friends across the Atlantic Ocean as a model of what a country should not do. That tradition continues. France’s centralized planning of...
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Explainer: The Charlie Hebdo Terror Attack in Paris
What just happened in Paris?Today at 11:30 a.m. local time in Paris (5:30 a.m. ET), two gunmen wearing black hoods and carrying Kalashnikovs killed twelve people, including two police officers, and...
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The Real Time-Bomb in Europe
Much attention has been given to Greece’s fiscal and political issues, but one European country may have even bigger problems: France. Writing in the American Spectator, Samuel Gregg discusses...
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Radio Free Acton: John Horvat on Order; Samuel Gregg on Chaos
In this edition of Radio Free Acton, we speak with John Horvat, author of Return to Order: From a Frenzied Economy to an Organic Christian Society, about what’s gone wrong with our economy and culture...
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A Catholic revolution in France
Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris Despite a decline in the number of individuals attending Mass, Catholicism in France is becoming more self-confident and, surprisingly, more orthodox. Writing for the...
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Letter from Rome: Paris and the Progressive Denial of Reality
In his book Living the Truth, the German Thomist Josef Pieper presents the following thesis: All obligation is based upon being. Reality is the foundation of ethics. The good is that which is in accord...
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The predicament facing France (and the rest of Europe)
Pens are piled up as people hold a vigil at the Place de la Republique for victims of the terrorist attack on January 7, 2015 in Paris. Dan Kitwood / Getty Images Read more on The predicament facing...
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Sirico: ‘Christianity safeguards balance of anthropology between social,...
Rev. Robert A. Sirico, second from left, takes time to chat with participants at the April 20 Rome conference “Freedom with Justice: Rerum Novarum and the New Things of Our Time” Read more on Sirico:...
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