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I’ve watched hundreds of westerns over the years, and 48 years ago even wrote my doctoral dissertation on the politics of the genre from 1948 to 1962. I wasn’t surprised when movie watcher Hannah Long early this year called The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) the...

.field.field--name-field-audio-type a { display: none; } Acton Audio What Fr. Sirico Saw at Jimmy Lai’s Trial in Hong Kong January 15, 2024 Overview This week, to start the show, Eric is joined by Fr. Robert Sirico, Acton’s co-founder and president emeritus, who just...

.field.field--name-field-audio-type a { display: none; } Acton Audio Jimmy Lai on Trial in Hong Kong December 18, 2023 Overview This week, Eric is joined first by Mark Clifford, the president of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong, as they discuss the National...

Jimmy Lai is no ordinary political protester. The 76-year-old Hong Kong entrepreneur and newspaper publisher has sat in solitary confinement in 35-pound handcuffs for more than 1,000 days as he prepares for the trial of his life. On one side are Lai and his defenders....

As of this Tuesday, Sept. 26, the billionaire newspaper publisher and human rights activist Jimmy Lai will have spent 1,000 days in a Hong Kong prison for practicing democracy without a license. After some 2 million of Hong Kong’s 7.4 million residents protested...