Acton University 2026
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Divinely Made, Man-Made Poor
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Building an Ecosystem of Human Flourishing
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Believe!
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Hope Is Not A Strategy, But It Is Reality
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The Crisis of Dependency: How Our Efforts to Solve Poverty Are Trapping People in It and What We Can Do to Foster Freedom Instead
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Panel: The Soul of the Machine: Technology, Desire, and the Free Society
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Immigration: Facts, Economics, and Morality
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Getting Social Justice Right
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Islam 101
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AI and Humanity’s Future: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Perspectives
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The Future of Fusionism Panel
Kevin Vallier, Stephanie Slade, James Patterson and Jason Duncan
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Excellent Leaders Seek Wisdom
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Thinking Theologically about Entrepreneurship
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Religious Liberty and the American Founding
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The Importance of Fatherhood to a Stable and Free Society
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Islam, Reason, and Freedom
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Transformation and Reform in Higher EducationÂ
David Hoag, Noah Gould, Esther Larson Lenger and Brad Johnson
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Globalisation and Free Trade
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Radical Re-humanization: Lessons from the Rwandan Genocide
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Economist and American Revolutionary: Adam Smith and 1776
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Community and Economic Development
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The Fertility Gap: Barriers to Fertility Around the World
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Alexander Hamilton vs. Thomas Jefferson
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Stakeholder Capitalism and ESG Under the Trump Administration
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Domestic Poverty and Social Engineering
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A lecture on his upcoming book The One and the Ninety-Nine
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C.S. Lewis and Politics
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Theology of Work
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The Intellectual Legacy of Bob Woodson on Poverty Alleviation
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More Homes, Better Neighborhoods, More Babies: Family-Friendly Housing and Urban Policy
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Debt, Crowding Out and Economic Growth
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Instead of Unions: A better way to empower workers through Mission-Focused Self-Management
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The Baby Bust and the Free Society
Dan Hugger, Stephen Barrows, Ph.D., Tim Carney and Carroll Rios de Rodriguez
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Principled Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurship, Creativity and Faith and Work, Culture
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Building Bridges to the Marketplace
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The Ethics and Economics of Sports Gambling
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Medical Conscience Rights: Indispensable to the Common Good
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An Introduction of Abraham Kuyper’s Public Theology
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More Than the Bottom Line: The Moral Case for Business
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Cultural Critiques of Capitalism
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Christian Mission & Integral Human Development
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Humans First, Models Second: Subsidiarity and the Practical Economics of the Human Person
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Juristocracy and State-of-Exception Democracy: The Case of Brazil
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The Economics of the Parables
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Introduction to Orthodox Social Thought
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2026: The Year of Adam Smith
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Technology, Propaganda, and the Future of Work
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Fertility Decline: Why Government Cannot Engineer a Baby Boom
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The Use and Abuse of Anti-Discrimination Law: On Private Property and the Free Exercise of Religion
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Libertarian-Conservative Fusionism and What It Isn’t
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Free and Virtuous Medicine: To Heal, Not Harm
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Lord Acton, Liberty, Conscience, and the Social Order
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Transitional Justice: Civil-Society Solutions For America’s Race History
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Profiles in Courage: Exceptional Christian Entrepreneurs in Marginalized Communities
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Sources of the Declaration of Independence
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Education and the Free Society
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The Austrian Temptation: Can Austrian Economics Serve a Humane Vision of the Person?
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Robert Nisbet: Conservative and Communitarian
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Natural Law: Philosophical Roots
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Integralism and Post-Liberalism
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East Meets West: Consumerism and Asceticism
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Mere Economics: The Rest of the Story
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The Environment, Markets and Christian Stewardship
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Set Free for Freedom
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Social Teaching of John Paul II
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Islam and Economics
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Who Owns Poverty? Transforming How We Measure and Address Poverty
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Acton University 2026
Acton University is not your typical conference. It’s a four-day exploration of theology, philosophy, entrepreneurship, international development, and market-based economics. Each day is packed with thought-provoking presentations on the intellectual and practical foundations of a free society. Bringing together leaders from all over the world in business and the church, academia and the ministry, the developing and developed world, and students of all ages, Acton University is a conference dedicated to connecting moral and religious principles to economic and personal liberty.
Sharpen your intellect. Expand your worldview. Learn the foundations of genuine human flourishing.