HUMANITASVolume VIII, No. 2, 1995 

Contents

    Croce in America:Influence,
    Misunderstanding, and Neglect    , 3
    David D. Roberts

    The Origin of Modern Society, 35
    Thomas Molnar

    The Necktie, 44
    A poem by William Wilborn

    What Went Wrong on the Campus—
    And How to Adapt to It, 45
    Jacob Neusner

    Tolerance, 52
    A poem by C. H. Hoebeke

    Reviews

    Dignity in Old Age: The Poetical
    Meditations of Peter Viereck, 53
    Michael A. Weinstein
    Tide and Continuities: Last and First Poems 1995-1938, by Peter Viereck.
    Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press, 1995. xix+320 pp. $36 cloth. $20 paper.

    The Last Man of Letters?
    The Singular Life of Russell Kirk, 68
    W. Wesley McDonald
    The Sword of Imagination: Memoirs of a Half-Century of Literary Conflict, by Russell Kirk.
    Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1995. 514 pp. $34.99.

    Populism vs. Elitism, 73
    Michael P. Federici
    The Road to Mass Democracy: Original Intent and the Seventeenth Amendment, by C. H. Hoebeke.
    New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1995. 211 pp. $29.95.
    The Populist Persuasion, by Michael Kazin. New York: Basic Books, 1995. 381 pp. $24.
    The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy, by Christopher Lasch. New York: W. W. Norton, 1995. 288 pp. $22.

    Republican Virtue and America, 80
    Wayne Allen
    Republics Ancient and Modern: The Ancient Regime in Classical Greece, by Paul A. Rahe.
    Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1994. 380 pp. $22.95.
    Republics Ancient and Modern, Vol. II: New Modes and Orders in Early Modern Political Thought, by Paul A. Rahe. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1994. 490 pp. $24.95.
    Republics Ancient and Modern, Vol. III: Inventions of Prudence: Constituting the American Regime, by Paul A. Rahe. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1994. 380 pp. $19.95.

    The Socratic Library for Everybody, 90
    A Parody by James Murray Miclot

    Notes on Contributors, 100



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