Acton Institute

@ActonInstitute

For the study of religion and liberty. Connecting good intentions with sound economics. Toward a free and virtuous society.

Grand Rapids, MI

Joined May 2009

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Acton Institute@ActonInstitute · Jul 21

1/ Fusionism isn't "dead." It's evolving. And it may solve conservatism’s biggest crises: 👉liberty vs. virtue 👉culture vs. politics 👉markets vs. community Here’s how. 🧵

ActonInstitute's tweet image. 1/ Fusionism isn't "dead."

It's evolving.

And it may solve conservatism’s biggest crises:

👉liberty vs. virtue
👉culture vs. politics
👉markets vs. community

Here’s how. 🧵

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Acton Institute@ActonInstitute · 4 h

Unity isn’t cheap. Doctrine isn’t optional. Sometimes the tension is the point.

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Acton Institute@ActonInstitute · 4 h

C.S. Lewis didn’t convert to Christianity in a chapel. He did it on the bus home from work. acton.org/religion-liber…

ActonInstitute's tweet card. If the well-examined life is worth living, then C.S. Lewis’s must have been extraordinarily worth living, because few lives have been quite so well and thoroughly examined. Even in the midst of a...

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Acton Institute@ActonInstitute · 5 h

The Ivy League’s dirty secret isn’t woke dogma. It’s intellectual incoherence. rlo.acton.org/archives/12727…

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A good observation from @dwchurchwell

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The first Great Awakening sparked abolition. The second came with capitalism. The third helped power the Cold War. Now, a fourth is quietly stirring.—in Palo Alto boardrooms. acton.org/religion-liber…

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ActonInstitute's tweet card. Religious revivals have been a part of the American historical landscape even before the republic existed. Most were linked and intertwined with other social movements happening at the time. The...

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Acton Institute@ActonInstitute · 16 h

So many pro "free-market" professors who rend their garments when they see a subsidy to private business, keep silent about the support their universities get from tax-payers

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You can’t take public funds and expect private freedom. Choose one. rlo.acton.org/archives/12713…

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Acton Institute@ActonInstitute · 17 h

The best novels are not moral instruction manuals for your political tribe. Read for the joy. Defend for the form. rlo.acton.org/archives/12714…

ActonInstitute's tweet card. Is discerning a political bent the key to appreciating literature or judging its place in the Western Canon? Not really.Read More...

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Acton Institute@ActonInstitute · 17 h

You can’t take public funds and expect private freedom. Choose one. rlo.acton.org/archives/12713…

ActonInstitute's tweet card. Is academic freedom a luxury that taxpayers should be forced to subsidize?Read More...

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Acton Institute@ActonInstitute · 18 h

Some men want power. Others want worship. Mao wanted both. rlo.acton.org/archives/12721…

ActonInstitute's tweet card. The manifold crimes committed by Mao Zedong in his pursuit of an industrialized China beggar the imagination. If only the author had left it there.Read More...

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Acton Institute@ActonInstitute · 19 h

Tickling the Ivies: Can Higher Education Be Saved acton.is/40BOfFg via Jeffrey Polet cc: @kissel_adam @madisonfaith_m @EncounterBooks

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Acton Institute@ActonInstitute · Jul 24

Grace often feels like discipline before it feels like love.

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Acton Institute@ActonInstitute · Jul 24

The Constitution is clear: The state was made for the citizen, not the citizen for the state. Don’t flip the script. rlo.acton.org/archives/12726…

ActonInstitute's tweet card. The former Harvard law professor’s new book fails to recognize a basic fact of U.S. constitutional law: the state was made for the citizen, not the citizen for the state.Read More...

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Acton Institute@ActonInstitute · Jul 24

You don’t need your job to fulfill your soul. But you also don’t need to abandon your soul to fulfill your job. acton.org/religion-liber…

ActonInstitute's tweet card. Human beings will always have work. It is part of the human condition. Work itself is a good that is part of God’s original design and therefore contributes to human flourishing. And while work and...

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Acton Institute@ActonInstitute · Jul 23

He called himself a Lutheran. He wasn’t. acton.org/religion-liber…

ActonInstitute's tweet card. Thomas Hobbes and Martin Luther are two of the most influential thinkers in the development of the early modern world. While neither figure is a liberal in the proper sense (it is Locke who provides...

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Acton Institute@ActonInstitute · Jul 23

History doesn’t repeat. It just forgets to read itself. rlo.acton.org/archives/12704…

ActonInstitute's tweet card. The story of how one local congregation not only survived but thrived amid the controversies and contretemps of 150 years of American history.Read More...

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Acton Institute@ActonInstitute · Jul 23

The purpose of work? No, it's not just a paycheck.

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Acton Institute@ActonInstitute · Jul 23

Americans love Jesus. They just can’t agree on which one. rlo.acton.org/archives/12708…

ActonInstitute's tweet card. Which Jesus you like best may say more about you than it does Him.Read More...

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Acton Institute@ActonInstitute · Jul 23

What gives law its authority? Not majority vote. Not moral agreement. Not fear of punishment. acton.org/religion-liber…

ActonInstitute's tweet card. Anglophone analytic legal philosophy has for decades been oriented around the work of H.L.A. Hart and Joseph Raz. According to Hart, law is based on social sources, particularly rules of recognition....

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