The Economic Way of Thinking
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Anthropology
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The Christian View of Government
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Company Culture and the Human Person: A Compelling Vision
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Created for More
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The Role of Economics in the Social Order
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Why Black Lives Matter
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Solzhenitsyn against Propaganda
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The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self
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Men Without Work
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What It Means to be Human
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Time Machines from the Past: Old Books are Still Cool
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The Future of Religious Liberty in America
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The Rise of Morality in Public Discourse
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Liberty & Morality in the Midst of Crisis
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America After the 2020 Election
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Transformational Leadership in a Time of Crises
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The Good Society: Life Lessons from Stickball
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How can a childhood game display the truths of human nature? Father Robert Sirico recollects what a game of stickball taught him about concepts such as rule of law, division of labor, and comparative advantage. He provides anecdotes on the differences between governance and government, as well as power and authority.
The Person at the Center of the Economy
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All economic systems are based on a particular vision of the human person. But what if we get the vision wrong? How does that affect the way we see trade, economics and business? *** Volume 1 of The Good Society is a 6-part series that that focuses on the intersection between the human person and …
The Tocqueville Option: Social and Technological Decentralization (Engage the Speaker AU2021)
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Engage the Speaker Session for “The Tocqueville Option: Social and Technological Decentralization” (AU2021). Original Lecture description below. This lecture addresses Alexis de Tocqueville’s concerns about individualism and centralization in democratic life, and argues that part of our response to the cultural challenges of today is to build revitalize civil society with new associations and mutual …
The Fire of Invention: Intellectual Property and the Power of Human Beings (Engage the Speaker AU2021)
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Engage the Speaker Session for “The Fire of Invention: Intellectual Property and the Power of Human Beings” (AU2021). Original Lecture description below. In the realm of invention and technology, what makes the difference between good and evil, prosperity and destruction, is not the material world itself but the way in which humans exercise our rational, …
Artificial Intelligence, Religion, and Anthropology
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning brings great promise. But what is artificial intelligence, and how does machine learning differ from human learning? How does religious faith inform our approach to artificial intelligence? What are we to make of transhumanist claims of a merger of humans and machines? This panel examines AI, religion, and anthropology.
Foundations Panel
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Join Dr. Anne Rathbone Bradley, Dr. Samuel Gregg, and Michael Matheson Miller as they engage in a Question and Answer session about Acton University’s four Foundational Lectures: 1) A Christian Vision of Government, 2) An Introduction to Natural Law, 3) The Economic Way of Thinking, and 4) A Christian Vision of the Human Person.
The Tocqueville Option: Social and Technological Decentralization
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This lecture addresses Alexis de Tocqueville’s concerns about individualism and centralization in democratic life, and argues that part of our response to the cultural challenges of today is to build revitalize civil society with new associations and mutual aid societies. It also looks at the possible role that distributed ledger technology/blockchain could play in promoting …
The Fire of Invention: Intellectual Property and the Power of Human Beings
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In the realm of invention and technology, what makes the difference between good and evil, prosperity and destruction, is not the material world itself but the way in which humans exercise our rational, creative powers. The Creator empowers his image-bearers to partner with Him to bring order out of chaos and prosperity out of poverty …
The Road to and Away from Poverty: The Fatal Attraction of Socialism
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Poverty Voices: Interview with Michael Fairbanks
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Work as a Calling
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Does God care about my work? Oye Waddell looks into the biblical examples of work and calling and practically promotes those ideas to further the kingdom. Waddell explains how our work can serve others and contribute to human flourishing in a God honoring way.
Economic Way of Thinking – Engage the Speaker
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Human Flourishing is why God created us. When we live into his designs and desires for us and his created order: we both experience and contribute to the common good and human well-being. Things work as they are supposed to. The fall makes this more difficult–but our task to build a flourishing world remains. When …
Christian Vision of the Human Person – Engage the Speaker
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Open Q&A with Rev. Robert Sirico
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The Pursuit of Happiness
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In this lecture, Jay Richards, Ph.D. connects Aristotle’s account of happiness with modern sociological and psychological surveys of happiness, and explains how they overlap and differ. He then explores how our work, especially in a high tech information economy, can contribute to both our happiness, and the happiness of others.
The Human Advantage: Don’t Get Replaced by a Robot
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Many experts predict that in coming years, as many of half of all jobs could be replaced by robots and artificial intelligence, leading to widespread technological unemployment. Jay Richards argues that these claims are based more on bad philosophy, not on solid evidence. Moreover, they ignore basic lessons of both history and economics. There is …