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“There was once a time when the names of political prisoners were known to all Americans.” Rev. Robert Sirico “#FreeJimmyLai stands among these giants. His name should be known to every person who believes in freedom.” substack.com/profile/381104…

My proposal for a Liberty Fund colloquium on Ray Bradbury. Was accepted in 2018, and the conference was brilliant, if I do say so myself! Dan Hugger The University Bookman Russell Kirk Center John J. Miller Rev. Ben Johnson Intercollegiate Studies Institute Ray Bradbury Official Ray Bradbury Center bradleyjbirzer.substack.com/p/proposing-a-…

For my WSJ debut, I discuss Klaus Schwab, Milton Friedman, and the surprising connection between corporate social responsibility and fraud.

Trump promised a Michigan manufacturing boom, instead we get closure after closure and massive losses to our three biggest employers, costing us jobs. Auto loan delinquencies are on the rise, too. My latest with The Detroit News detroitnews.com/story/opinion/…

Simple economics is damn good at making real-world predictions. Yet, if you only read oped columns, you’d think economics was a failure. Our models are too abstract. Our predictions are always wrong. I push back in the Wall Street Journal Opinion 👇

At Acton Institute, I review The American Spectator’s Daniel J Flynn’s new biography of the father of #fusionism, Frank Meyer - one of the 20th century’s most complicated public intellectuals 1/2:

PSA for followers of Austrian Economics -- please consider the source of the knowledge you are consuming. Bad Austrian Economics is still BAD economics. The corrective is get off X and read the work of serious scholars in their articles and their books, and use the skills of

"Images are representations of mysteries, necessarily; for mere words are tools that break in the hand, and it has not pleased God that man should be saved by logic, abstract reason, alone.” -- Russell Kirk, 1977, at Hillsdale College.

I've convinced myself to start an email newsletter as a place to write about media, Christian history, and prayer. Interested? You can sign up here: sillimandaniel.substack.com/subscribe

Pleased to share this great conversation with Jenna A. Robinson of The Martin Center on the crisis in American Higher Ed, the prospects academic renewal, & the reform agenda needed to get us there! Watch & listen to the latest Acton Institute podcast episode: youtu.be/CLWZPZOjrN4?si…

🔥New episode dropped. Universities are more than job-training centers. They shape citizens. They preserve wisdom. So why are they failing? The Martin Center's Jenna A. Robinson joins Dan Hugger on the Acton Line podcast. ⬇️ acton.org/audio/jenna-ro…

Some favorite quotes regarding myth from Christopher Dawson, J.R.R. Tolkien, Owen Barfield, and Russell Kirk. Erik Bootsma🌸🇳🇱 Avi Woolf, Wilderness Conservative🐺 Dan Hugger Intercollegiate Studies Institute Acton Institute The University Bookman Russell Kirk Center Rev. Ben Johnson John J. Miller Scot Bertram bradleyjbirzer.substack.com/p/mythic-cultu…

You can take the cracker & barrel out of the Cracker Barrel logo, but you can't take the Cracker Barrel logo out of the cracker & barrel.

The ironclad assumption today is that conservatism is opposed on principle to diversity. This assumption is wrong. See here for my Civitas Outlook piece on a conservative conception of diversity—better understood as variety.

New post! Link below.

Our president, Jenna A. Robinson, joined Dan Hugger on the Acton Line podcast, produced by Acton Institute, to discuss the crisis in higher education and the prospects for academic renewal. youtube.com/watch?v=CLWZPZ…

The French Origins of Urban Renewal civitasinstitute.org/research/the-f…

Understated feature of the Postliberal movement: They all have strong economic opinions, but none of them have any formal education in economics. This makes them especially susceptible to other unqualified economic cranks and crackpots who offer confirmation of their opinions.

This is a bigger step toward socialism than NYC maybe opening 5 grocery stores.