About John C. Pinheiro

John C. Pinheiro is Director of Research at the Acton Institute. He is the author of the award-winning, Missionaries of Republicanism: A Religious History of the Mexican-American War (Oxford, 2014) and The American Experiment in Ordered Liberty (Acton Institute, 2019). Dr. Pinheiro was also Professor of History and the founding Director of Catholic Studies at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

STEM is for Grandmothers: Educating for Truth & Freedom

By |2022-12-07T10:03:04-06:00December 7th, 2022|Categories: Catholicism, Christianity, Education, Freedom, Imagination, Liberal Learning, Moral Imagination, Truth|

At a time when a child should be exposed to wonder, awe, play, and fairy stories, the STEM brigade tells us we should instead prepare children for careers in engineering and the sciences. My mother-in-law, a wonderful grandmother and award-winning artist to boot, is fond of buying my nine-year-old daughter STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) [...]

Humility, Prudence, and Other Lost Virtues

By |2022-09-12T17:33:09-05:00September 12th, 2022|Categories: Democracy, Virtue|

Democracy requires compromise, and compromise requires the two virtues lacking most in American society–prudence and humility. What hope is there, then, now that technology and social media have only deepened the virtue deficit? In October 2012, during a televised presidential debate President Barack Obama earned laughs and pleased pundits when he mocked his opponent, Governor [...]

An Education for the Future

By |2024-02-25T10:25:38-06:00January 4th, 2022|Categories: Books, Catholicism, Education, Sainthood, St. Benedict|

With such a rich intellectual, artistic, and moral heritage, why among the many institutions of Catholic learning (including, of course, the Benedictine ones) are there so few dedicated to a liberating and humane education in truth, humility, and love?   Glory in All Things: St. Benedict and Catholic Education Today, by André Gushurst-Moore (Angelico Press, [...]

Teaching American Religious History

By |2022-09-08T11:24:38-05:00August 5th, 2011|Categories: Christianity, Religion|

To take religion seriously in our study of the past means first of all beginning with the assumption that people really believe what they say they believe. An intimate knowledge of our own human condition—sadly lacking among many in our unreflective, noisy society—is a necessity in this endeavor. Why is the United States in 2011, [...]

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