October 26, 2010
Posts by Marc Vander Maas
October 01, 2010
Global Warming Consensus Alert: KILL ‘EM ALL
September 22, 2010
Acton On Tap: Art, Patrimony, and Cultural Investment
If you couldn’t make it to Derby Station in East Grand Rapids last night, there are a couple of things you should know. First of all, you missed a great event and some good conversation. Continue Reading...
September 21, 2010
Radio Free Acton: The Stewardship of Art, Part 2
September 13, 2010
Radio Free Acton: The Stewardship of Art, Part 1
September in Grand Rapids means the return of ArtPrize, which bills itself as a “radically open” art competition, juried by the general public, and awarding the largest cash prize for an art competition in the world – $250,000 for first place. Continue Reading...
September 10, 2010
Video: Samuel Gregg on the State and the Idea of Conscience
August 19, 2010
The Rebel Economist Strikes Again
July 08, 2010
Acton Media Alert: Rev. Robert A. Sirico Reports From China
July 07, 2010
Keynes vs. Hayek: Still the Main Event
May 13, 2010
Digging in to the crimes of communism
Having recently finished reading Jean-François Revel’s Last Exit to Utopia – in which he excoriates leftist intellectuals for ignoring the crimes of communist totalitarianism and their efforts to resurrect the deadly ideology – and having just read a few more chapters of Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago over lunch, it seems providential that I would stumble across this article at City Journal on the failure of researchers to seriously dig into the now-available archives of the Soviet Union:
Pavel Stroilov, a Russian exile in London, has on his computer 50,000 unpublished, untranslated, top-secret Kremlin documents, mostly dating from the close of the Cold War. Continue Reading...