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Economics of Immigration
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Political Economy of Government Debt: A Public Choice Perspective
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Like a Tree Planted by Still Water: Navigating the Rising Tide of Political Polarization
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From Prosperity, Liberty: The Political Economy of Distributism
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The Christian Vision of the Human Person
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The Christian Vision of Government
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Even in the midst of extreme polarization, religion can still be our common ground. Judeo-Christian principles provide a framework that transcends both policies and parties and establishes a system for human flourishing. In this lecture, Michael Matheson Miller explains the Ten Principles of Christian Government which are fundamental to any and all just, free, and …
Getting Social Justice Right (Engage the Speaker AU2021)
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International Religious Freedom: Politics and Policies (Engage the Speaker AU2021)
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Engage the Speaker Session for “International Religious Freedom: Politics and Policies” (AU2021). Original Lecture description below. How and why does the US government promote religious freedom abroad? Is it in America’s interest, or is it just American values? And what are the internal politics of the policy debate? This course will draw not only on …
Corruption and Economic Development (Engage the Speaker AU2021)
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Christian Vision of Government – Engage the Speaker
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Christian Vision of the Human Person – Engage the Speaker
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Corruption and Economic Development
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International Religious Freedom: Politics and Policies – Engage the Speaker
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How and why does the US government promote religious freedom abroad? Is it in America’s interest, or is it just American values? And what are the internal politics of the policy debate? This course will draw not only on the presenter’s experience as a political scientist but also as a former chairman of the US …
Getting Social Justice Right – Engage the Speaker
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Some people think social justice is a twentieth century invention of left-leaning thinkers, but this starts the history of social justice midstream. To understand its true meaning, we must look farther back to its real historical origins. The first known use of the phrase “social justice” was by a Jesuit Thomist, Luigi Taparelli, in his …
International Religious Freedom: Politics and Policies
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How and why does the US government promote religious freedom abroad? Is it in America’s interest, or is it just American values? And what are the internal politics of the policy debate? This course will draw not only on the presenter’s experience as a political scientist but also as a former chairman of the US …
Getting Social Justice Right
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Some people think social justice is a twentieth century invention of left-leaning thinkers, but this starts the history of social justice midstream. To understand its true meaning, we must look farther back to its real historical origins. The first known use of the phrase “social justice” was by a Jesuit Thomist, Luigi Taparelli, in his …
Corruption and Economic Development – Engage the Speaker
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Suicide of the West
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In the great span of human history we are living in the lowest rates of poverty. Over the past 10,000 years humans have materially prospered beyond the scope of that thought to be possible. However, our civilization and environment forms us, and left to our own devices we revert back to barbarianism. Jonah Goldberg explains …
The Fight Against Corruption in Brazil
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Deltan Dallagnol delivers the Thursday evening plenary address at Acton University on June 20, 2019. A Harvard-trained attorney, Deltan Dallagnol gained international attention as the lead prosecutor in Operation Car Wash, one of the largest corruption probes in Latin American history. The Car Wash investigation implicated four former presidents and dozens of congressmen and high …
William Penn and the Experiment of American Liberty
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There are competing creation “myths” about the origins of American liberty. The Jamestown, Virginia settlers of 1607 have vied with the Pilgrims of the Plymouth Colony in New England for dominance in America’s self-understanding of its origins. In this lecture Alan Crippen argues that these narratives have obscured the role of William Penn and his …
John Foster Dulles: Faith, Freedom, and the Cold War Architect
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In this lecture, John D. Wilsey, Ph.D. (Associate Professor of Church History at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) explores the legacy of John Foster Dulles. John Foster Dulles was Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Secretary of State from 1953 to 1959. He served in the early years of the Cold War and pursued a vigorous foreign policy …
Modern Parallels to the Fall of Rome
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The greatest civilization of ancient times expired more than 1,500 years ago but the lessons to be learned from its experience are eternal. In this lecture, Mr. Reed focuses on the Roman Republic—the key features, personalities and events that defined its rise as well as those that caused its decay in the First Century B.C. …
The Need for Christian Statemanship
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Hunter Baker’s lecture proposes recovering ideals in statesmanship and citizenship as the answer to the intense political polarization seen today.
Communism in Cuba
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Communism took power in Cuba through deceit and intrigue in 1959. While Fidel Castro denied he was a communist, promising to restore democracy in the island, he began consolidating totalitarian rule and exporting revolution in Latin America and Africa. As the totalitarian dictatorship became evident, Cuba’s democratic resistance defied the Castro regime in two phases: …
A Judicial Renaissance? The Trump Administration and the Future of the Federal Judiciary
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The US Supreme Court hangs in the balance when it comes to some of the most important areas of the law, with a couple of more vacancies possible, and there are an unprecedented number of vacancies anticipated on the Federal appeals courts. This state of affairs presents a unique opportunity to transform the courts so …
The False Promise of Big Government
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The debate over the size and scope of the federal government has raged since the New Deal. So why have opponents of big government so rarely made political headway? Because they fail to address the fundamental issue.
The Growth of Leviathan
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Everyone knows that the Federal Government has far transcended the limited role envisioned by the Founders. In this address, retired United States Magistrate Judge Joseph Scoville explores the main events in American Constitutional history responsible for the eclipse of the checks and balances designed to limit federal power.
Just Right: A Life in Pursuit of Liberty
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In this fascinating memoir, historian Lee Edwards who knew and worked with Ronald Reagan, Barry Goldwater, and William F. Buckley, Jr. for nearly five decades reveals what motivated these giants of the modern conservative movement—a staunch belief in free enterprise and a love of God. Called “The Voice of the Silent Majority” by the New …
Bringing America Together
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Politicians and pundits are struggling to understand this populist moment. Are a shrinking workforce and a contemptuous, divided culture simply America’s “new normal”? Is free enterprise fundamentally at odds with defending the national interest? Arthur Brooks draws on history and social science to explain these unusual times – and offers a set of strategies, from …
Indispensable: How Philanthropy Fuels American Success
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Philanthropy in America is a bursting, bubbling impulse that has vital effects on almost every sector of our society. In this lively talk, author and former White House domestic policy adviser Karl Zinsmeister sketches the unappreciated size and scope of charitable giving, and argues that without it there would be no America as we know …
American Presidents: The Best and the Worst
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What makes a president “good” or “bad”? Are the views of conventional historians right on such things or should we be looking for second opinions? In this lecture, Lawrence W. Reed offers his answers to these questions, while taking us on a stroll through the triumphs and the follies of some of the 43 men …
American National Character and the Future of Liberty
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In 1783 George Washington said that “we have a national character to establish.” 110 Years later Frederick Jackson Turner published “The Significance of the Frontier in American History” and wrote these words: “to the frontier the American intellect owes its striking characteristics… coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of …