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Almost fifty years ago, introducing my biography of Lord Acton, I wrote: “He is of this age, more than of his. He is, indeed, one of our great contemporaries.” A decade and a half later, in an essay ...

Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being. -Lord Acton It was during my first full ...

Many Americans can identify Lord Acton as the author of that truism. But they know little else about the British historian John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton – First Baron Acton of Aldenham. That is a ...

Among Washington’s younger political columnists, few might have been expected to cheer more loudly for the Kennedy Administration than balding William V. Shannon, 33, pundit-in-residence for the ...

It's a bad sign when you get halfway through a presidential campaign with no sages wagging their heads sagaciously as they cite Lord Acton. No wonder the politicians get away with so much. Their ...