Politics
The Christian Vision of the Human Person
Add to favoritesThe Christian Vision of Government
Add to favoritesGetting Social Justice Right (Engage the Speaker AU2021)
Add to favoritesInternational Religious Freedom: Politics and Policies (Engage the Speaker AU2021)
Add to favoritesEngage 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)
Add to favoritesChristian Vision of Government – Engage the Speaker
Add to favoritesChristian Vision of the Human Person – Engage the Speaker
Add to favoritesCorruption and Economic Development
Add to favoritesInternational Religious Freedom: Politics and Policies – Engage the Speaker
Add to favoritesHow 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
Add to favoritesSome 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
Add to favoritesHow 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
Add to favoritesSome 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
Add to favoritesSuicide of the West
Add to favoritesIn 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
Add to favoritesDeltan 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
Add to favoritesThere 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
Add to favoritesIn 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
Add to favoritesThe 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
Add to favoritesCommunism in Cuba
Add to favoritesCommunism 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: …