Recently added articles from Humanitas:
Debacle: the conservative movement in chapter eleven.
Mar 22, 2008; ... As this article will discuss the state and future of the so-called "conservative movement," it is only fair to inform readers not familiar with the author's views that he has long been a critic of prominent features of that movement. He has complained about its obsession with politics and ...
Poetry and the mystique of the self in John Stuart Mill: sources of libertarian socialism.
Mar 22, 2008; ... John Stuart Mill's On Liberty (1859) is typically considered a carefully argued treatise on freedom delivered in the cool language of a political philosopher. But a close reading produces a surprisingly different view of a manifesto aiming, among other things, to incorporate into the moral ...
A covenant with all mankind: Ronald Reagan's idyllic vision of America in the world.
Mar 22, 2008; ... <Pre> I speak the pass-word primeval, I give the sign of democracy, By God! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms. --Walt Whitman </Pre> Ronald Reagan's vision of America's role in the world, especially as it was expressed in ...
More than 'irritable mental gestures': Russell Kirk's challenge to liberalism, 1950-1960.(Company overview)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Liberalism "is now fading out of the world," Russell Kirk proclaimed in 1955 in the liberal Catholic periodical Commonweal. "And I believe that the ephemeral character of the liberal movement is in consequence of the fact that liberalism's mythical roots always were feeble, and now are ...
Deadly nothingness: a meditation on evil.
Mar 22, 2008; ... <Pre> "I see nobody on the road," said Alice. "I only wish I had such eyes," the King remarked in a fretful tone. "To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance too! Why, it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light!" --Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass, ...