In The Centre for Independent Studies’ annual Acton Lecture on Religion and Freedom, Hoover Institution scholar Dr Peter Berkowitz discusses the much debated relationship between religion and politics in the United States. He examines the grounds for a political reconciliation between social conservatives whose primary political concerns relate to traditional religious values and economic conservatives who stress limited government and free markets. Professor Berkowitz argues that not only can free markets and free religion exist alongside each other but as a political alliance, they are naturally compatible and self-reinforcing, as religion (Christianity, in particular) teaches the values and virtues requisite for successful market economies.