Acton Institute ✓

@ActonInstitute · Grand Rapids, MI · joined 04 May 2009

For the study of religion and liberty. Connecting good intentions with sound economics. Toward a free and virtuous society.

27 882Followers

1 239Following

45 610Posts total

4.6KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

6 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers of the same size.

Median views754this account2 392median for 10K–100K

Reach, %2.70%this account7.18%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.23%this account1.50%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	754	2 392	0.32×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.70%	7.18%	0.38×
Engagement rate	1.23%	1.50%	0.82×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

1K29 Aug

64331 Aug

864

8921 Sep

5492 Sep

6173 Sep

Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.19%29 Aug

0.78%31 Aug

1.85%

1.68%1 Sep

2.91%2 Sep

0.65%3 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.50%.

What the audience does

Likes61.3%38 in total

Reposts19.4%12 in total

Replies8.1%5 in total

Quotes4.8%3 in total

Bookmarks6.5%4 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

We are pleased to announce our Annual Dinner speaker this year is Dr. Brad Birzer (@bradleybirzer) from @Hillsdale, who will be speaking on “Declarations and Dragons: 1776, the Inklings, and the West."📜⚔️ Dr. Birzer will draw from his forthcoming book “Tolkien and the Inklings: 617 views · 2 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 What if we stopped viewing successful people as people who took something from us and started seeing them as people who built something? Benedek Dózsa explores how our assumptions about entrepreneurship shape our willingness to take risks, build businesses, and create. Read htt 549 views · 11 likes · 3 reposts · 2 replies 02 Sep 2026 “Slade grapples with the problem that now faces the American conservative tradition: We should want to live both free and flourishing lives, but freedom and virtue can conflict, and we can misuse our freedom in ways that undermine our flourishing.” Read @kvallier's review of htt 892 views · 9 likes · 4 reposts · 1 replies 01 Sep 2026 Look for Acton affiliate scholar @sladesr's book coming out on September 1st, highlighting the fusionist philosophy, which united the classical liberal defense of individual freedom with the Judeo-Christian tradition of moral virtue: 864 views · 12 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies 31 Aug 2026 As some argue for Christian nationalism, Darryl Hart's “Protestants and Patriots” traces four centuries of church-state entanglement across Britain and America, and finds that a voluntary church, free from state establishment, was the healthier outcome all along. Read https://t. 643 views · 3 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 31 Aug 2026 “It’s back—the fusion of #Libertarianism and social #Conservatism!” ~Religion & Liberty Daily @ActonInstitute Join the conversation with Stephanie Slade's FUSIONISM. This book by @sladesr was mentioned in: https://t.co/xEoW5sFNzE https://t.co/dYQTYlHouS 1K views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 29 Aug 2026