Stephanie Slade Is Chronicling the New Right
03 Dec 2025
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In this episode, Dan Hugger speaks with Stephanie Slade, senior editor at Reason magazine and a fell...
Acton Rundown | December 2026
01 Dec 2025
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This month on the Acton Rundown Dan & Mark chat about upcoming Acton events and new video content. ...
Andrew Abela Is Popularizing the Virtues with “Superhabits”
26 Nov 2025
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In this episode, Dan Hugger speaks with Andrew Abela, founding dean of the Busch School of Business ...
John Wilsey Is Priming Conservatives for Religious Freedom
19 Nov 2025
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In this episode, Dan Hugger speaks with John Wilsey, professor of church history and chair of the De...
Peter Lipsett Is Podcasting to Answer the Question, "What Is the Right?"
12 Nov 2025
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In this episode, Dan Hugger speaks with Peter Lipsett, vice president at DonorsTrust, about the rece...
Anne Bradley Interrogates Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s Abundance
05 Nov 2025
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In this episode, Dan Hugger speaks with Anne Bradley, vice president of academic affairs at The Fund...
Acton Rundown | November 2025
03 Nov 2025
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This month on the Acton Rundown, Dan & Dylan chat about upcoming Acton events and new video content....
John Pinheiro Interrogates Thomas Jefferson on Limited Government
29 Oct 2025
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In this episode, Dan Hugger speaks with John Pinheiro, director of research at the Acton Institute, ...
Dylan Pahman Is Starting the Conversation on Orthodox Christian Social Thought
22 Oct 2025
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In this episode, Dan Hugger speaks with Dylan Pahman, research fellow at the Acton Institute and fou...
Anthony Bradley Finds the Answer to Anxiety in Exodus
15 Oct 2025
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In this episode, Dan Hugger speaks with Anthony Bradley, Distinguished Research Fellow at the Acton ...
Pope Leo XIV Exhorts Us in DILEXI TE to See Christ in the Poor
10 Oct 2025
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In this episode, Dan Hugger speaks with John Pinheiro, director of research at the Acton Institute, ...
Brent Beshore Stewards Companies That Care About the Future
08 Oct 2025
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On today’s episode, Acton’s director of research and programs, Dan Churchwell, talks to CEO and ...
Acton Rundown | October 2025
06 Oct 2025
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This month on the Acton Rundown, Dan and Dylan chat about upcoming Acton events and new video conten...
Jeffery Degner Says the Family Has a Future
01 Oct 2025
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On this episode, Acton’s director of program and education, Dan Churchwell, interviews Dr. Jeffery...
Noah Gould Links Corporate Social Responsibility … and Fraud
24 Sep 2025
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In this episode, Dan Hugger speaks with Noah Gould, Alumni and Student Programs manager at the Acton...
Brad Birzer Wonders if Russell Kirk’s Conservative Movement Has a Future
17 Sep 2025
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In this episode, Dan Hugger speaks with Bradley J. Birzer, Russell Amos Kirk Chair in American Studi...
Stephen Barrows Integrates Catholic Social Teaching and Economics
10 Sep 2025
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In this episode, Dan Hugger speaks with Stephen Barrows, chief operating officer at the Acton Instit...
Acton Rundown | September 2025
08 Sep 2025
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This month on the Acton Rundown Dan, Mark, and Nathan chat about upcoming Acton events and new video...
Nathan Mech on Interfaith Dialogue at the Collins Center for Abrahamic Heritage
03 Sep 2025
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In this episode, Dan Hugger speaks with Nathan Mech, Founding Director of the Collins Center for Abr...
Clara Piano on Markets, Morals, and Vocations Professional and Personal
27 Aug 2025
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In this episode, Dan Hugger speaks with Clara Piano, visiting assistant professor of economics at th...
Jenna Robinson on the Crisis in Higher Ed and the Prospects for Academic Renewal
20 Aug 2025
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In this episode, Dan Hugger speaks with Jenna Robinson, president of the James G. Martin Center for ...
Samuel Gregg Remembers the Thoroughly Catholic Capitalist Michael Novak
13 Aug 2025
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In this episode, Dan Hugger speaks with Samuel Gregg, president of and Friedrich Hayek Chair in Econ...
Dave Hebert Unpacks America’s Recent Economic Policy Missteps
06 Aug 2025
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In this episode, Dan Hugger speaks with Dave Hebert, a senior research fellow at AIER and an affilia...
Acton Rundown | August 2025
04 Aug 2025
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This month on the Acton Rundown: Dan and Mark chat about upcoming Acton events and announce two new ...
Acton’s 2025 Emerging Leaders
30 Jul 2025
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On today’s episode, Noah Gould, Acton’s Alumni and Student Programs manager, speaks to three mem...
Kevin Vallier Is Infusing Fusionism with New Arguments
23 Jul 2025
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In this episode, Dan Hugger speaks with Kevin Vallier, professor of philosophy at the University of ...
How the CEO of America’s Future Is Preparing for America’s Future
16 Jul 2025
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In this episode, Dan Hugger speaks with Eric Kohn, CEO of America’s Future. They discuss just that...
David Bahnsen on the State of the U.S. Economy
09 Jul 2025
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In this episode, Dan Hugger speaks with David Bahnsen, founder, managing partner, and CIO of The Bah...
Acton Rundown | July 2025
07 Jul 2025
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This month on the Acton Rundown: Dan and Mark recap Acton University 2025 and discuss Acton’s upco...
Marcel van Hattem on the Fight for Freedom in Brazil
02 Jul 2025
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In this episode, Dan Hugger speaks with Marcel van Hattem, a Brazilian politician, journalist, and p...
Silicon Valley Revival?
25 Jun 2025
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In this episode, Dan Hugger speaks with Dan Churchwell, director of programs and education at the Ac...
A Preview of Acton University 2025
18 Jun 2025
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On today’s episode, Dan Hugger speaks to Dan Churchwell, Acton’s director of programs and educat...
Acton Line: Now on Video!
16 Jun 2025
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Today, Acton librarian Dan Hugger and podcast producer Mark Townsend announce that the podcast will ...
Technological Threats to Liberty
11 Jun 2025
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On today episode, Acton’s director of programs and education, Dan Churchwell, speaks to Philip Bun...
The Role of Business in Society
04 Jun 2025
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On today’s episode, Acton librarian Dan Hugger speaks with James Otteson from Acton University 202...
Who Benefitted from DEI Initiatives?
28 May 2025
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In this episode, Dan Hugger speaks with Isaac Willour, journalist and analyst at Bowyer Research. T...
An Ascetic Way of Life in a World of Abundance
21 May 2025
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In this episode, Dan Hugger speaks with Dylan Pahman, research fellow and executive editor of the Jo...
Pope Leo XIV and 'New Things'
14 May 2025
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In this episode, Dan Hugger speaks with John Pinheiro, director of research at the Acton Institute, ...
All Things Conclave
07 May 2025
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In this episode, Dan Hugger speaks with the Acton Institute’s John Pinheiro, director of research,...
Being Rich in This World and the Next
30 Apr 2025
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On today’s episode, Dan Churchwell, Acton's director of programs and education, interviews Raymond...
The Legacy of Pope Francis
23 Apr 2025
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In this episode, Dan Hugger speaks with the Acton Institute’s Stephen Barrows, chief operating off...
Markets and Dignity in the Fight Against Global Poverty
16 Apr 2025
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The 2024 PovertyCure Summit “Dignity, Agency & Charity” was a virtual event put on by Acton’s ...
Encouraging Better Journalism
09 Apr 2025
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In this episode, Dan Hugger speaks with Marvin Olasky, executive editor for News and Global at Chris...
Understanding DOGE
02 Apr 2025
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In this episode, Dan Hugger speaks with Ryan Bourne, R. Evan Scharf Chair for the Public Understandi...
Secularist Violence in Modern History
26 Mar 2025
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In his latest book, “Broken Altars: Secularist Violence in Modern History,” Thomas Albert Howard...
Lessons from Three Decades of Studying Economics
19 Mar 2025
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On today’s episode, Dan Churchwell, Acton’s director of programs and education, talks to James H...
Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at a Time
12 Mar 2025
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The 2024 PovertyCure Summit, “Dignity, Agency & Charity,” was a virtual event put on by Acton’...
Medical and Business Ethics
05 Mar 2025
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On today’s episode, we bring you a conversation from Acton University between Acton’s director o...
The Christian Humanist Tradition Today
26 Feb 2025
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In this episode, Dan Hugger speaks with Stephen Smith, dean of the humanities, Temple Family Chair i...
Early Modern Economics, Ethics, and Law
19 Feb 2025
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In this episode, Dan Hugger speaks with Andrew M. McGinnis, assistant director of research at the CR...
Finding Solutions to America’s Housing Shortage
12 Feb 2025
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The 2024 PovertyCure Summit, “Dignity, Agency, & Charity,” was a virtual event put on by Acton’...
Leading Citizenship
05 Feb 2025
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On today’s episode, Acton’s director of research, John Pinheiro, speaks to Gerard Wegemer, found...
Presidential Transitions
29 Jan 2025
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This week, host Dan Hugger is joined by John Pinheiro and Dylan Pahman to discuss the presidential t...
American Fusionism
22 Jan 2025
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In this episode, Dan Hugger speaks with Kevin Vallier, professor of philosophy at the Institute of A...
Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations Today
14 Jan 2025
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Director of the Acton Institute’s Collins Center for Abrahamic Heritage Nathan Mech mediates a dis...
What Financialization Does and Doesn’t Mean
08 Jan 2025
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Though often used, the term “financialization” is largely misunderstood. In order to address thi...
Thinking About Think Tanks
01 Jan 2025
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On today’s episode, Acton librarian Dan Hugger sits down Kris Mauren, co-founder and president of ...
REBROADCAST: A chat with the filmmakers behind 'The Chosen'
25 Dec 2024
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On today’s episode, we’re bringing you a rebroadcast from December 1, 2021. Eric Kohn, Acton’...
America's Status as a 'Christian Nation'
18 Dec 2024
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In recent years, America’s status as a “Christian nation” has become an incredibly vexed quest...
Focusing Christian Higher Education
11 Dec 2024
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On today’s episode, Acton’s director of research, John Pinheiro, speaks with Joe Creech, executi...
Jimmy Lai: The Troublemaker
04 Dec 2024
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In this episode, Dan Hugger speaks with Mark Clifford, award-winning journalist and historian of Hon...
Panel Discussion | Jimmy Lai’s Fight For Freedom Continues
27 Nov 2024
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Join Acton Institute’s president emeritus Rev. Robert Sirico as he hosts a live panel featuring Ma...
Ronald Reagan: The Peacemaker
20 Nov 2024
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With decades of hindsight, the peaceful end of the Cold War seems to have been inevitable. But in th...
The 2024 United States Presidential Election
13 Nov 2024
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This week, host Dan Hugger is joined by John Pinheiro, Anthony Bradley, and Dylan Pahman to discuss ...
C.S. Lewis on Modern Social Thought
06 Nov 2024
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While the challenge of poverty has always been a part of the human condition, the rise of modernity ...
Faithful Christian Political Action
30 Oct 2024
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In this episode, Dan Hugger speaks with Jordan Ballor, Director of Research at the Center for Religi...
The Founding Father of Abolitionism
23 Oct 2024
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On today’s episode, Noah Gould, Acton’s Alumni and Student Programs manager, talks to author Cal...
Fertility Gap
16 Oct 2024
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Named after distinguished American theologian Michael Novak, the Acton Institute’s prestigious Nov...
The Complementarity of Business and Philanthropy
09 Oct 2024
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For this episode of Acton Line, we’re bringing you one of the plenary talks from Acton University ...
Promises and Challenges of Interreligious Dialogue
02 Oct 2024
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On today’s episode, we bring you a wide-ranging conversation between Acton librarian Dan Hugger an...
The Connection Between Childhood Trauma and Poverty
25 Sep 2024
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For this episode of Acton Line, we’re bringing you one of the plenary talks from Acton University ...
Giving Is Not God’s Way of Raising Money
18 Sep 2024
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How should you allocate your personal wealth? How do the decisions you make regarding personal wealt...
The Explosion of Bailout Culture
11 Sep 2024
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Capitalism didn’t fail—it was ruined, says Ruchir Sharma. In his new book, “What Went Wrong...
Ismael Hernandez: Rethinking Charity
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Too much of the conversation about poverty, whether in government, among social service providers, o...
Principled Entrepreneurship with a Commitment to the Social Good
28 Aug 2024
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For this episode of Acton Line, we’re bringing you one of the plenary talks from Acton University ...
Richard Nixon's Faith
21 Aug 2024
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In this episode, Dan Hugger speaks with Daniel Silliman, historian and news editor for Christianity...
Faith and the Future of Philanthropy
14 Aug 2024
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In this episode, Acton’s director of research, John Pinheiro, speaks to Jeremy Beer from Acton Uni...
Potential Truths in Anti-Liberal Ideologies
07 Aug 2024
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In this episode, Acton director of marketing and communications Eric Kohn talks to Kevin Vallier abo...
Universities in a Free Society
31 Jul 2024
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In today’s episode, we bring you one of the plenary talks from Acton University 2024. Here Dr. Joh...
Acton's Emerging Leaders
24 Jul 2024
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Each summer, the Acton Institute welcomes a cohort of students to Grand Rapids, Michigan, as part of...
The Constitution Is Still the Answer
17 Jul 2024
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Common ground is hard to find in today’s politics. In a society teeming with irreconcilable politi...
Economic Potpourri
10 Jul 2024
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In this episode, Eric Kohn, Acton’s director of marketing and communications, sits down with finan...
Fighting for Freedom with Renato Moicano
03 Jul 2024
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In the 34-year history of the Acton Institute, never have we had an opportunity to combine Ludwig Vo...
Pursuing A Life of Action
26 Jun 2024
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Gurcharan Das was born in Lyallpur, Punjab, during World War II. His mother noted in her diary that ...
A Preview of Acton University 2024
19 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For four days each summer, Acton University brings together from around the developing and the devel...
Orthodox Communities in the Middle East
12 Jun 2024
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Resources on Catholic and Protestant social thought abound, but where are the resources for answers ...
Diet, Health, and the Christian Faith
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
That America has a weight problem is no surprise. According to the most recent statistics from the C...
DEBATE: Christianity and the State
29 May 2024
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In 2022, the Acton Institute launched The Collins Center for Abrahamic Heritage. The mission is to a...
Seeking Civility: Important Principles for Divided Times
22 May 2024
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During times of extreme divisiveness, civility can help us transcend important differences and flour...
Fr. James Schall and the Crisis in Higher Education
15 May 2024
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On today’s episode, Acton librarian and research associate Dan Hugger sits down with Acton researc...
DEBATE: Islam and the State
08 May 2024
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In 2022, the Acton Institute launched The Collins Center for Abrahamic Heritage to advance research ...
Finding Christ in a Busy World
01 May 2024
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The modern world is a busy and complicated place for Christians. Obligations to jobs, friends, and f...
Progress on a Work in Progress
24 Apr 2024
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When celebrated American novelist and short story writer Flannery O’Connor died at the age of 39 i...
AI, Disruptive Technology, and the Future of Work
17 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There is no question today that new technology is changing the way we think about and experience wor...
The Historian's Craft: Gertrude Himmelfarb
10 Apr 2024
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Gertrude Himmelfarb was one of the foremost historians of Victorian life. She produced page-turning ...
Understanding Hybrid Worship
03 Apr 2024
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Many Christian congregations now offer hybrid worship services: you can worship in person or online....
The Reformation, the Body, and a Murder
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Noah Gould, Acton’s alumni and student programs manager, speaks to Jane Clark Sch...
The Failed Experiment of Over-Parenting
20 Mar 2024
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Our culture tells parents there’s one best way to raise kids: enroll them in a dozen activities, p...
Closing the Gap Between Work and Life
13 Mar 2024
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In this episode, we bring you a conversation from our recent Business Matters virtual conference bet...
Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative
06 Mar 2024
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In 1980, Nobel Prize–winning economist Milton Friedman released a 10-part documentary series on PB...