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What the Frame-Breakers Knew
In the winter of 1811, weavers in Nottinghamshire began breaking into workshops at night and taking hammers to stocking frames.
Jul 15
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Dan Hugger
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The Neighborhood That Outlived Its Obituary
In Fishtown these days, you can eat a top-rated meal inside a former factory.
Jul 8
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Dan Hugger
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Two New Yorkers, Two Ways to Love the Poor
On the newest episode of Acton Line, Thomas Dias sets Dorothy Day beside New York’s new mayor and finds two irreconcilable answers to an old question.
Jul 1
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Dan Hugger
June 2026
Why "Catholic Liberal" Is Not a Contradiction in Terms
To a great many people, on both the secular left and the religious right, the phrase “Catholic liberal” sounds like a contradiction in terms.
Jun 30
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Dan Hugger
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The Wages of Throne and Altar
Lord Acton was a Catholic who knew better than most that the Church is not made stronger by grasping at temporal power and is very often corrupted by…
Jun 29
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Dan Hugger
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A Liberty Older Than Locke
Dylan Pahman and John Pinheiro on the Christian roots of the American founding
Jun 17
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Dan Hugger
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"We Need You": Ismael Hernandez and the Recovery of Charity
Every act of charity is a gift, but is it a thing or a recognition?
Jun 10
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Dan Hugger
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The Seen and the Unseen at the Pump
Dave Hebert on the economic consequences of the Iran war
Jun 3
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Dan Hugger
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May 2026
The New Things, The New Batch!
In our own day, the Church offers to everyone the treasury of her social teaching in response to another industrial revolution and to developments in…
May 27
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Dan Hugger
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On The New Things: Three Conversations on AI
In his first official address to the College of Cardinals on May 10, 2025, Pope Leo XIV signaled what he understood to be among the defining tasks of…
May 22
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Dan Hugger
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Affordability Is Not Abundance
Walk through any American living room and you can read the last quarter-century of economic history in the furniture.
May 20
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Dan Hugger
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The Postliberal Moment Has Passed
A conversation with Thomas D. Howes on the rise, intellectual lineage, and quiet failure of a movement
May 13
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Dan Hugger
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