The Reece Committee: Lessons from history  
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The Reece Committee: Lessons from history  

In the early 1950s, against the backdrop of the Cold War and growing concerns over potential clandestine efforts at internal subversion, the United States Congress launched an investigation into the activities of major tax-exempt foundations. Thus the Reece Committee was born, spearheaded by Congressman B. Carroll Reece, with the aim…

Fernando del Pino Calvo-Sotelo: The decline of Reason in the West
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Fernando del Pino Calvo-Sotelo: The decline of Reason in the West

by Claudio Grass, Hünenberg, Switzerland It will come as no surprise to friends and regular readers that I hold but a handful of contemporary intellects in high esteem, given the present Zeitgeist, the current state of state education and the level of public discourse. It will be even less surprising…