Robert T Sirico

In 2000 the Institute began a series of lectures, endowed by Michael Novak and the John Templeton Foundation, entitled the Templeton Forum on Markets and Morality. The four papers given in the first series, and revised by the authors, are included in this volume. Brian Griffiths considers the busine...

The search for government revenue in fiscally tight times tempts legislators to impose unusually high excise taxes on cigarettes, liquor, gambling, and so on, to raise revenue. This type of charge, often called a 'sin tax,' appeals to voters who view it as a way of discouraging consumption of certai...

From its beginnings, the Catholic Church's moral teaching has always had a social dimension. As the centuries have passed, this teaching has developed as the Church has deepened its knowledge of the truth of the Gospel, while simultaneously taking account of social, political, and economic changes i...

A fair and honest debate about religious responses to environmental issues should always distinguish theological principles from prudential judgments. The Cornwall Declaration and the accompanying essays in this volume were written to do just that. They were not written to provide theological ration...

Do you feel like something big is missing from your life? Do you feel trapped, bored, stuck in a meaningless routine? It may be you think you're too ordinary to ever do something special. Perhaps you're afraid that if you try, you'll fail.The startling truth is this: Just about anyone can do great t...

The Left has seized on our economic troubles as an excuse to blame the rich guy” and paint a picture of capitalism and the free market as selfish, greedy, and cruel. Democrats in Congress and Occupy” protesters across the country assert that the free market is not only unforgiving, it’s morally corr...

The recent economic crisis in the United States has highlighted a crisis of understanding. In this volume, Bradley C. S. Watson and Joseph Postell bring together some of America's most eminent thinkers on political economy—an increasingly overlooked field wherein political ideas and economic theorie...

"'Lord Acton on Revolution' rehearses familiar Kirkean themes-the abiding importance of tradition, the moral purpose of politics, the danger of ideological obsession-with characteristic thoroughness and felicity. It also represents a happy conjunction of author and subject. Acton, too, was historian...