HUMANITASVolume IX, No. 2, 1996 

Contents

    The 'Fatal Flaw' of Internationalism:
    Babbitt on Humanitarianism    , 4
    Richard M. Gamble

    Democratizing the Constitution:
    The Failure of the Seventeenth Amendment    , 19
    C. H. Hoebeke

    Two Women in a Revolving Door,
    Rose, Orrery, and Wishbone, 38
    Poems by Heidy Anne Steidlmayer

    Francis Lieber on the Sources of Civil Liberty, 40
    Steven Alan Samson

    The First to Fall into Sleep, 63
    A poem by Marc Awodey

    Reviews

    Straussianism Descendant?
    The Historicist Renewal, 64
    Randall E. Auxier
    Leo Strauss e la destra americana, by Germana Paraboschi. Roma: Editori Riuniti, 1993.
    162 pp. L.25,000.

    Origins of Nihilism: Actual and Alleged, 73
    Jan Olof Bengtsson
    Nihilism Before Nietzsche, by Michael Allen Gillespie. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1994. xxiv+312 pp. $27.50 cloth. $15.95 paper.

    God and the Constitution, 85
    K. R. Constantine Gutzman
    The Godless Constitution: The Case Against Religious Correctness, by Isaac Kramnick and R. Laurence Moore. New York and London: Norton, 1996. 166 pp. $22 cloth.

    The Tribalization of the Western Mind, 92
    Wayne Allen
    The Defeat of the Mind, by Alain Finkielkraut. Translated by Judith Friedlander. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995. 165 pp. $22.95.

    The Diorite Whales, 98
    A short story by Michael O'Laughlin

    Notes on Contributors, 112



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