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In this episode, Dan speaks with Noah Gould, Alumni and Student Programs Manager at the Acton Institute, about his recent op-ed “‘New Fish’ and ‘Old Fish’ Revive an Iconic Section of Philly,” published on June 5 in The Wall Street Journal. It’s a reported piece about how the working-class Philadelphia neighborhood of Fishtown has been gentrifying and what that means for the community there.

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‘New Fish’ and ‘Old Fish’ Revive an Iconic Section of Philly

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This month on the Acton Rundown, Dan and Mark chat about upcoming Acton events, new video content, and Battlestar Galactica.

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Why Postliberalism Failed | James M. Patterson & Thomas D. Howes

The Christian Roots of American Liberty | Dylan Pahman & John C. Pinheiro

Essays:

Have We Been Spiritual but Not Religious Forever? | J.C. Scharl

Winston Churchill, American Patriot | Michael Lucchese

The Personal God of George Washington | John Pinheiro

Video Content:

Dave Hebert Explains the Economic Consequences of the Iran War

Ismael Hernandez Is Rethinking Charity

Dylan Pahman and John Pinheiro Are Exploring the Christian Roots of American Liberty

James Patterson Explains Why Postliberalism Failed

Believe! | Acton University 2026 Plenary with Doug DeVos

Thomas Dias Compares Dorothy Day’s and Zohran Mamdani’s Approaches to Fighting Poverty

Acton University 2026 Acton On-Demand

Upcoming Events:

The Faith and Traditions That Shaped America: Protestantism, the Classical World, and English Common Law: July 23, 2026

Acton Experience Brasil: August 7–8, 2026

Acton’s 36th Annual Dinner: November 10, 2026

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In this episode, Dan speaks with Thomas Dias, Foundation Relations Officer at the Acton Institute, about his essay “Zohran Mamdani Is Not Radical Enough,” which was published at Public Discourse back in March of this year. In the essay, Thomas contrasts Dorothy Day’s and Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s approaches to fighting poverty in New York City.

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Zohran Mamdani Is Not Radical Enough

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In this episode, Dan Hugger speaks with James M. Patterson, associate professor of public affairs in the Institute of American Civics at the University of Tennessee’s Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs and president of the Ciceronian Society, about his and Thomas Howes’s new book, Why Postliberalism Failed.

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Why Postliberalism Failed | Patterson & Howes

Why Postliberalism Failed Podcast

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In this episode, Dan Hugger speaks with John Pinheiro, director of research at the Acton Institute, and Dylan Pahman, research fellow at the Acton Institute and founder and president of the St. Nicholas Cabasilas Institute, about the reception thus far of their new book, The Christian Roots of American Liberty: A Reader.

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The Christian Roots of American Liberty: A Reader

Christianity and the Founders’ Liberalism| Alexander William Salter

The Millennia-Long History of American Liberty | Daniel N. Gullotta

Wealth and Commerce in Eastern Christian Thought | Wilson Whitener & Alexander W. Salter | 

The Kingdom of God and the Common Good: Orthodox Christian Social Thought | Dylan Pahman

The Economics of the Parables | Robert Sirico

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In this episode, Dan Hugger speaks with Ismael Hernandez, founder and president of the Freedom & Virtue Institute, about his book Not Tragically Colored: Freedom, Personhood, and the Renewal of Black America and Rethinking Charity: Restoring Dignity to Poverty Relief. The book explores what people get wrong about charity and the truths about the human person we need to understand before we start rethinking charity.

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Freedom and Virtue Institute

Effective Compassion Training

Self-Reliance Clubs

Rethinking Charity: Restoring Dignity to Poverty Relief | Ismael Hernandez

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In this episode, Dan speaks with Dave Hebert, Director of Economics & Economic Freedom and Senior Research Fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research and an affiliate scholar here at the Acton Institute, about the economic impact of the ongoing conflict in Iran—from gas prices to consumer spending.

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⁠Economics Reality Check | Dave Hebert, Substack⁠

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This month on the Acton Rundown, Dan and Mark chat about upcoming Acton events and new video content.

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Why Postliberalism Failed | Patterson & Howes

Essays:

Can We Moderate a Politicized Church Without Politics? | Stephen O. Presley, Religion & Liberty Magazine

Freedom and Responsibility: Seven Takeaways from Magnifica Humanitas | John C. Pinheiro

The Economics of Magnifica Humanitas | Stephen Barrows

Humanity, Magnificent, at a Crossroads | Francis X. Maier

Magnifica Humanitas: Between Babel and Jerusalem in the Age of AI | Michael Severance

Video Content:

On The New Things | AI & Economics with Dr. Stephen Barrows

On the New Things | Were the Luddites Right About AI? with Dr. John Pinheiro

On the New Things | AI & Humanity with Michael Matheson Miller

Caleb Whitmer on Fraud and the Flood of Cataclysmic Money in Minneapolis

Thomas Howes Explains Why Postliberalism Failed

Anne Bradley Unpacks What Makes Things ‘Affordable’

Pope Leo XIV Defends Humanity in the Age of AI: Magnifica Humanitas Roundtable

Upcoming Events:

Acton University 2026 | Acton Institute June 22–25, 2026

Evenings at Acton University 2026

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In this episode, Dan speaks with Dylan Pahman, research fellow at the Acton Institute and founder and president of the St. Nicholas Cabasilas Institute, and Caleb Whitmer, project manager at Acton’s Center for Social Flourishing, about Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, on safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence.

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MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS

Freedom and Responsibility: Seven Takeaways from Magnifica Humanitas

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Pope Leo XIV has signaled that artificial intelligence will be a defining concern of his pontificate, with an encyclical expected to address it directly. In this three-part series, the Acton Institute's Dan Hugger sits down with scholars across economics, history, and anthropology to ask what Catholic social teaching has to say about the AI revolution, as well as what an encyclical on AI will need to grapple with.

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