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Panhandling Pitfalls

Chris Horst | March 15, 2012 | Poverty

Originally posted at Smorgasblurb. It was a late, humid Pennsylvania night. I walked down the city street which led to my home. In the distance, I heard the thump-thump of bass beats, resounding loudly from tire-sized speakers. The streetlights, fashioned like...

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Chris Horst is the Director of Development for HOPE International.

Book Review: Free to Choose

Faith and Public Life | March 15, 2012 | Economics

Kurt Jaros is walking us through Milton Friedman’s “Free to Choose.” Below are the links to each of his pieces. Free to Choose: Introduction This Christmas I asked for and received “Free to Choose” by Milton and Rose Friedman. I’ve been a...

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The Tyranny of Controls

Kurt Jaros | March 15, 2012 | Economics

This is part of a series on Milton Friedman’s “Free to Choose.” In my previous post I explained the role of government in the marketplace. This is part four of a book series on Free to Choose by Milton Friedman. In the second chapter, Friedman writes...

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Kurt Jaros is the Executive Director of Defenders Media.

Renewing Energy With Common Sense

Faith and Public Life | March 14, 2012 | Environment

In a recent Washington Post op-ed, Arnold Schwarzenegger stressed the economic benefits and environmental necessity of renewable energy expansion. Specifically (and unsurprisingly) the ex-Governator called for government to “level the playing field” of the energy...

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On the Right Side of the Schism

Jacqueline Isaacs | March 13, 2012 | Politics

In case you have missed it, there has been quite the conversation on this blog and the Acton Power Blog on the topic of Christian libertarians. During the course of the conversation, I took the side of Christian libertarians and even wrote an exhaustively lengthy post...

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Jacqueline Isaacs is the Director of Strategy for Bellwether Communications, where she crafts content strategies for thought leaders.

Communism’s Rational Faith in Man

Joseph Sunde | March 8, 2012 | Politics

I’m currently reading Witness, an autobiographical account of former Soviet spy Whittaker Chambers’s flight from communism and the events that ensued thereafter. The book’s forward, “A Letter to My Children,” has become somewhat of a classic in and of itself—for its...

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Joseph Sunde is an associate editor and writer for the Acton Institute.