Jay W. Richards, Ph.D., Distinguished Fellow at the Institute for Faith, Work & Economics and New York Times bestselling author, delivers an address entitled “Why Libertarians Need God” as part of the 2014 Acton Lecture Series in the Mark Murray Auditorium of the Acton Building in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In his address, Richards argued that core libertarian principles of individual rights, freedom and responsibility, reason, moral truth, and limited government make little sense in an atheistic and materialist context, but make far more sense when grounded in a theistic belief system. This lecture took place on January 30, 2014.