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Acton Unwind is a weekly roundtable discussion of news and current events through the Acton Institute's lens on the world: promoting a free and virtuous society and connecting good intentions with sound economics. Host Eric Kohn is joined by Acton Institute experts for an exploration of news, politics, religion, and culture.

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1 min; September 03, 2025

The 2024 United States Presidential Election

67 hours 50 mins; November 13, 2024

How to Do Politics in Church

68 hours 30 mins; September 30, 2024

Build, Baby, Build

51 mins; August 26, 2024

Why Pot Stinks

68 hours 17 mins; August 19, 2024

Polarization to the Walz

41 mins; August 12, 2024

Is the American Economy Toast?

44 mins; August 05, 2024

Is It Safer to Offend Christians than ‘Childless Cat Ladies’?

60 hours 19 mins; July 29, 2024

No Longer Biden His Time

53 mins; July 22, 2024

Pray for Our Nation

57 mins; July 15, 2024

Is the Constitution Broken?

76 hours 7 mins; July 08, 2024

When Politics Trump Caring

47 mins; July 01, 2024

A Matter of Trust

68 hours 34 mins; June 24, 2024

A False Flag Attack on SCOTUS

46 mins; June 17, 2024

Ticketmaster in its Antitrust Era

63 hours 7 mins; June 10, 2024

Harrison Butker Misses Wide Right

78 hours 4 mins; May 20, 2024

The Enduring Power of Magazines

59 mins; May 13, 2024

Will Fraternity Bros Save America?

79 hours 26 mins; May 06, 2024

Decamping Campus Encampments

67 hours 1 min; April 29, 2024

Did OJ Simpson Break American Culture?

66 hours 12 mins; April 22, 2024

Squatters’ Wrongs

60 hours 47 mins; April 15, 2024

The Rise of Anti-Semitism Is the Fall of American Liberty

70 hours 12 mins; April 08, 2024

Key Bridge Collapse

63 hours 30 mins; April 01, 2024

DOJ Takes an Anti-Trust Bite Out of Apple?

66 hours 8 mins; March 25, 2024

Is the Clock Ticking for TikTok?

49 mins; March 18, 2024

The Vibes of the Union Are Weird

55 mins; March 11, 2024

Spice, Spice Baby

64 hours 0 mins; March 07, 2024

Baconator Arbitrage

75 hours 48 mins; March 04, 2024

Rumble in the Christian College Jungle

64 hours 38 mins; February 26, 2024

Lent So Hot Right Now

58 mins; February 19, 2024

He Gets Us. But Do We Get 'He Gets Us'?

73 hours 10 mins; February 12, 2024

Look What You Made Us Do (Discuss Taylor Swift)

80 hours 26 mins; February 05, 2024

Messing with Texas

60 hours 57 mins; January 29, 2024

Javier Milei vs. Davos Man

61 hours 28 mins; January 22, 2024

What Fr. Sirico Saw at Jimmy Lai’s Trial in Hong Kong

96 hours 9 mins; January 15, 2024

Plagiarism and Its Defenders

60 hours 44 mins; January 08, 2024

Jimmy Lai on Trial in Hong Kong

61 hours 53 mins; December 18, 2023

Remembering Henry Kissinger

68 hours 54 mins; December 11, 2023

Poverty: Not One Solution, But Many

81 hours 17 mins; December 04, 2023

Milei Wins the Day in Argentina

54 mins; November 27, 2023

You Don’t Gotta to Hand It to Osama bin Laden

69 hours 27 mins; November 20, 2023

MrBeast of Burden

66 hours 20 mins; November 13, 2023

WeWork Don’t Work Anymore

66 hours 49 mins; November 06, 2023

The Meltdown Over the Robert E. Lee Meltdown

62 hours 12 mins; October 30, 2023

They Don’t Speaker for Us

72 hours 36 mins; October 23, 2023

Anti-Semitism Rears Its Ugly Head

62 hours 51 mins; October 17, 2023

Saving St. Louis & Terror in Israel

69 hours 8 mins; October 09, 2023

Synodality in Reality

66 hours 45 mins; October 02, 2023

Did Compassionate Conservatism Kill Welfare Reform?

61 hours 27 mins; September 25, 2023

Has Organized Labor Overplayed Its Hand? Again?

68 hours 3 mins; September 18, 2023

What Is Populism’s Place in American Conservatism?

65 hours 39 mins; September 11, 2023

To Indict, Swipe Right?

55 mins; August 28, 2023

A Crisis in Masculinity?

58 mins; August 21, 2023

Is the New Right Fascist?

74 hours 55 mins; August 07, 2023

Barbenheimer and the Future of the Movies

66 hours 38 mins; July 31, 2023

Conservatism Is Alive and Well

62 hours 22 mins; July 24, 2023

SCOTUS Says “No” to Compelled Speech, Again

69 hours 18 mins; July 17, 2023

The Violent Faith of Cormac McCarthy

70 hours 28 mins; July 10, 2023

When Is a Coup Not a Coup?

60 hours 45 mins; June 26, 2023

Patrick Deneen and Our Otherworldly Postliberal “Future”

63 hours 47 mins; June 19, 2023

The Trump Indictment and Whataboutism

57 mins; June 12, 2023

The Responsibility of Business Is Business

64 hours 49 mins; June 05, 2023

Under the Light of La Sombrita

50 mins; May 22, 2023

What’s Next for Pakistan and Turkey

46 mins; May 15, 2023

TikTok Bans the Acton Institute’s The Hong Konger Documentary

54 mins; May 08, 2023

Housing, Fake Drake, and ‘Everything-Bagel Liberalism’—All at Once!

44 mins; May 01, 2023

National Conservatism Revisited

64 hours 58 mins; April 10, 2023

How Not to React to the Trump Indictment and the Nashville Shooting

57 mins; April 03, 2023

Tick Tock for TikTok?

57 mins; March 27, 2023

The French Enlightened on Pensions

57 mins; March 20, 2023

SVB Is DOA

63 hours 22 mins; March 13, 2023

What Are You Searching for, Dave?

63 hours 24 mins; February 27, 2023

Thoughts, and Especially Prayers, Matter

59 mins; February 20, 2023

What’s Wrong with Journalism Today?

60 hours 37 mins; February 13, 2023

Popping the China Balloon Story

58 mins; February 06, 2023

Ticketmaster Haters Gonna Hate, Hate, Hate

60 hours 12 mins; January 30, 2023

The Conscience of a Defenseman

63 hours 55 mins; January 23, 2023

Are We Mishandling Biden’s Mishandled Documents?

57 mins; January 16, 2023

Remembering Benedict XVI

63 hours 6 mins; January 09, 2023

China Relents On Zero-COVID Policies

52 mins; December 19, 2022

How Important Are the “Twitter Files” and Twitter Itself?

48 mins; December 12, 2022

Ukraine Moves to Ban Russian Orthodox Church

58 mins; December 05, 2022

Sam Bankman-Fried's Fall & The Sentencing of Elizabeth Holmes

61 hours 35 mins; November 21, 2022

What the Midterm Elections Say About American Civic Health

52 mins; November 14, 2022

Is Affirmative Action History?

53 mins; November 07, 2022

Musk sinks his teeth into Twitter

41 mins; October 31, 2022

Truss Interrupted

53 mins; October 24, 2022

The Iranian Uprising (Almost) No One Is Talking About

55 mins; October 17, 2022

Columbus or Indigenous People's Day: Why not both?

52 mins; October 10, 2022

Into the Metaverse

54 mins; October 03, 2022

What happened at NatCon3?

59 mins; September 26, 2022

The New York Times Takes Aim at Orthodox Jewish Education

59 mins; September 19, 2022

Remembering Queen Elizabeth II & Mikhail Gorbachev

61 hours 30 mins; September 12, 2022

Is there a case for canceling student loan debt?

55 mins; August 29, 2022

Afghanistan, one year later

62 hours 22 mins; August 22, 2022

No one is above the law or beneath contempt in Trump raid

66 hours 13 mins; August 15, 2022

The future of Roe isn’t as simple as pro-lifers may think

63 hours 57 mins; August 08, 2022

A recession by any other name still stinks

59 mins; August 01, 2022

Political violence and the attack on Lee Zeldin

59 mins; July 25, 2022

Bonus episode: Stranger Things 4

57 mins; July 22, 2022

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