Thinking clearly in a time of ideology

<p>Today on <em>Acton Unwind</em>, Stephen Barrows, Dan Hugger, and Dylan Pahman join Michael Matheson Miller—guest editor of the new double issue of <em>Religion & Liberty</em>, Acton’s quarterly journal of religion, economics, and culture—to discuss the issue’s theme: the challenges of thinking clearly in an age dominated by ideology. How can we function in a time when the pursuit of truth, and even the meaning of “truth” itself, is subservient to a suffocating ideology that makes real dialogue between opposing viewpoints difficult if not impossible? What are the risks that come with the adoption of a rigid ideology? What is the difference between ideology and worldview? And how do we resist the temptation of adopting ideological thinking ourselves?</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.acton.org/pub/religion-liberty" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Religion & liberty Summer/Fall 2021</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOgWLlp9bmw" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Carter Snead at the Acton Lecture Series: What it means to be human</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.acton.org/research/history-freedom-antiquity" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The History of Freedom in Antiquity</a> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://oll.libertyfund.org/page/bastiat-class" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bastiat’s Theory of Class: The Plunderers vs. the Plundered</a> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.acton.org/pub/religion-liberty/volume-9-number-6/biblical-worldview-crucial-new-millennium" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Biblical Worldview Crucial for the New Millennium</a> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Subscribe to </strong><a href="https://www.acton.org/actonunwind" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Acton Unwind</strong></a><strong>, </strong><a href="https://www.acton.org/actonline" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Acton Line</strong></a><strong> & </strong><a href="https://www.acton.org/actonvault" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Acton Vault</strong></a><strong> </strong></p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

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