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| 7 April 2004 |
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“Barzun, the NEA, and the Economics of Art”
by Bruce Edward Walker
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Bush administration's proposed budget boost for the National
Endowment for the Arts has revived discussion about the
government's proper role in supporting cultural institutions
and individual creative pursuits. But does the government
know art when it sees it?Acton Web Poll: Should
the NEA be abolished?
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| 2. THIS WEEK AT ACTON.ORG |
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| 3. ACTON NEWSMAKERS |
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“Government’s growing habit” by Stacy St. Clair,
Daily Herald
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Chicago-area paper interview’s Fr. Sirico about
the rising level of sin taxes. |
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“Liberación Despótica” by Rev. Robert Sirico,
El Panamá América (in Spanish)
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Fr. Sirico’s March 19
Wall Street Journal
commentary on Haiti’s Jean-Bertrand Aristide was
subsequently published by news organizations in Mexico,
Venezuela, Nicaragua and Panama. |
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“Keeping it real” by Anthony Bradley,
World Magazine
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Acton Research Associate Anthony Bradley, in a
feature length story, writes about a new generation of
evangelical Christians who are reacting against the perceived
cultural failures of their parents — the baby boomers. |
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| 4. FOOD FOR THOUGHT FROM ACROSS THE WEB |
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“The Lost History of the Ninth Amendment (I): The Lost Original
Meaning” by Kurt Lash, Loyola Law
School (88 pages)
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Recent research by Kurt Lash
surrounding the original construction of the Ninth Amendment
shows its purpose was to prevent “the nationalization of
these rights through expansive readings of the Constitution.”
Both the 9th and 10th Amendments, according to Lash, were meant
to keep “the identification and protection of such rights...a
matter of local concern.” |
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“Stealing Beauty” by Gene Edward Veith,
World Magazine
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Gene Edward Veith observes in this
World Magazine cover story from March 20, 2004 that
“increasingly, art is becoming either so esoteric as to be
irrelevant or so commercial as to be reduced to a consumer
commodity. But we can recover the foundation for true
aesthetics.” |
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| 5. THIS WEEK AT THE ACTON BOOK SHOPPE |
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And Why Not? Morality and Business by François
Michelin
(Special Sale Price: $12)
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This book-length extended interview provides
fascinating insights into the mind of François Michelin, the
former managing partner of Group Michelin. In one of the few
interviews he has ever given, Michelin sat down with two
journalists and discussed his management philosophy and his
deeply felt Christian faith. |
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| 6. IN THE LIBERAL TRADITION |
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Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274)
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“It is lawful for man to possess property.…
Human affairs are conducted in more orderly fashion if each man
is charged with taking care of some particular thing himself,
whereas there would be confusion if everyone had to look after
any one thing indeterminately.” |
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