Anne Applebaum

September 5, 2018|Anne Applebaum, collectivization of agriculture, Gareth Jones, Robert Conquest, the Holodomor, Walter Duranty

Thinking About the Holodomor: Part II

by Flagg Taylor|5 Comments

Monument to the Victims of the Holodomor, with the statue "Bitter Memory of Childhood" in foreground, Kiev, Ukraine (DmyTo/Shutterstock.com).

Journalists who wouldn’t cover up Soviet-caused famine in Ukraine were denounced in print by colleagues like Walter Duranty of the New York Times.

August 29, 2018|Anne Applebaum, Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine, Robert Conquest, the Holodomor, Totalitarianism

Thinking About the Holodomor: Part I

by Flagg Taylor|26 Comments

Monument to the Victims of the Holodomor, with the statue "Bitter Memory of Childhood" in foreground, Kiev, Ukraine (DmyTo/Shutterstock.com).

Anne Applebaum continues the work of Robert Conquest, whose “Harvest of Sorrow” first set the record straight about the Soviet-caused famine in Ukraine.

November 9, 2012|Anne Applebaum, City of Boerne, Dodd-Frank, Drug Legalization, Patent Rights, Richard Reinsch, Tim Lynch

Friday Roundup, November 9th

by Richard M. Reinsch II|Leave a Comment

Snoqualmie Falls, Washington (Image: Richard A. McMillin/Shutterstock.com).

Outsourcing with Dodd-Frank: Not that we're opposed to outsourcing, but the irony is rich. Obama's second term and the Courts: Adam Freedman in CJ. Life in Blocs: Louis Menand reviews Anne Applebaum's latest historical trip into totalitarianism. Evan Tsen Lee: "The Trouble with City of Boerne." Federalist Society posts 2 new Practice Group podcasts: 1) A conversation with the Becket Fund's General Counsel Kyle Duncan on litigation against the HHS Contraceptive Mandate; 2) Richard Epstein on "Patent Rights: A Spark or Hindrance for the Economy." Tim Lynch chronicles the results achieved by the drug legalization movement on Tuesday.

What the Anti-Poverty Activists Hath Wrought

by Daniel P. Schmidt

Many prominent helpers of the disadvantaged thought nothing of turning anti-poverty efforts over to the state; but there were (and are) noble exceptions.

Surviving Russophobia

by George Hawley

Clint Watts argues that contemporary fears about Russia are well justified.