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The journal seeks to foster among its readers and contributors a spirit of open inquiry, a willingness to subject cherished doctrines to challenge and look beyond conventional categories of thought. HUMANITAS explores issues of moral and social philosophy, epistemology, and aesthetics, and the relations among them, such as the moral and cultural conditions of knowledge. Favorable to an historical understanding of life, HUMANITAS explores the simultaneous tension and union between universality and particularity, and the interdependence and opposition of creativity and tradition. Fruitful new thinking will resist reductionism and will, for example, distinguish between contrasting strains within modernity and postmodernity.
Articles
- Universality and History, Claes G. Ryn
- Irving Babbitt and Postmodernity, Michael A. Weinstein
- A Dialogue on Reason and Imagination, Claes G. Ryn and Michael A. Weinstein
- Poetry Now and the Space We Live In, Samuel Hux
- Musings on Postmodern Politics, Eugene McCarthy
- Croce in America, David D. Roberts
- The 'Fatal Flaw' of Internationalism: Babbitt on Humanitarianism, Richard M. Gamble
- Democratizing the Constitution: The Failure of the Seventeenth Amendment, C. H. Hoebeke
- Francis Lieber on the Sources of Civil Liberty, Steven Alan Samson
- Metaphysics and History: The Individual and the General Reconciled, Gabriel R. Ricci
- Imagination and Historical Knowledge in Vico: A Critique of Leon Pompa's Recent Work, Randall E. Auxier
- Excavating Foucauldian Identity, Scott Roulier
- The Liberalism/Conservatism of Burke and Hayek: A Critical Comparison, Linda C. Raeder
- Peter Viereck: Reconciliation and Beyond, Michael A. Weinstein
- On the Future of the Humanistic Tradition in Literary Criticism, James Seaton
- The Humanities in a Technological Society, John Paul Russo
- Lincoln, Macbeth, and the Moral Imagination, Michael Knox Beran
- Unrestraint Begets Calamity: The American Whig Review, 1845-1852, Wesley Allen Riddle
- The Spirit of American Constitutionalism: John Dickinson's Fabius Letters, Gregory S. Ahern
- Defining Historicism, Claes G. Ryn
- Two Kinds of Criticism: Reflective Self-Scrutiny vs. Impulsive Self-Validation, Joseph Baldacchino
- Antigone's Flaw, Patricia M. Lines
- Realism, Romanticism, and Politics in Mark Twain, William F. Byrne
- On Wu Mi's Conservatism, Ong Chang Woei
- The Politics of Transcendence: The Pretentious Passivity of Platonic Idealism, Claes G. Ryn
- Characterizing Historicist Possibilities: A Reply to Claes Ryn, David D. Roberts (Acrobat Reader, see below.)
- History as Synthesis, Claes G. Ryn (Acrobat Reader, see below.)
- Dimensions of Power: The Transformation of Power and the Limits of 'Politics', Claes G. Ryn (Acrobat Reader, see below.)
- Savior Nation: Woodrow Wilson and the Gospel of Power, Richard M. Gamble (Acrobat Reader, see below.)
- Piety, Universality, and History: Leo Strauss on Thucydides, Emil A. Kleinhaus (Acrobat Reader, see below.)
- Mill's Religion of Humanity: Consequences and Implications, Linda C. Raeder (Acrobat Reader, see below.)
- Ethics and the Common Good: Abstract vs. Experiential, Joseph Baldacchino (Acrobat Reader, see below.)
- Knowing Beyond Science: What Can We Know and How Can We Know? W. J. Korab-Karpowicz (Acrobat Reader, see below.)
- The River: A Vichian Dialogue on Humanistic Education, Randall E. Auxier (Acrobat Reader, see below.)
- Irving Babbitt and Cultural Renewal, James Seaton (Acrobat Reader, see below.)
- Morality and Virtue in Poetry and Philosophy: A Reading of Homer's Iliad XXIV, Hektor K. T. Yan (Acrobat Reader, see below.)
- Lost in Place? On the Virtues and Vices of Edward Casey's Anti-Modernism, Thomas Brockelman (Acrobat Reader, see below.)
- Method and Civic Education, Peter Alexander Meyers (Acrobat Reader, see below.)
- Metapolitics Revisited, Peter Viereck (Acrobat Reader, see below.)
- Nietzsche on the Cross: The Defence of Personal Freedom in The Birth of Tragedy, Wayne A. Borody (Acrobat Reader, see below.)
- Augustine and the Case for Limited Government, Linda C. Raeder (Acrobat Reader, see below.)
- Harmony and Beauty, Disease and Suffering: Indeterminacy a Necessary Condition for Free Will, Mario Zatti (Acrobat Reader, see below.)
- The Birth of a Chinese Cultural Movement: Letters Between Babbitt and Wu Mi, Wu Xuezhao (Acrobat Reader, see below.)
- Chinese Reactions to Babbitt: Admiration, Encumbrance, Vilification, Zhu Shoutong (Acrobat Reader, see below.)
- Babbitt's Impact in China: The Case of Liang Shiqiu, Bai Liping (Acrobat Reader, see below.)
- "Which West Are You Talking About?" Critical Review: A Unique Model of Conservatism in Modern China, Ong Chang Woei (Acrobat Reader, see below.)
- Kafka's Afflicted Vision: A Literary-Theological Critique, George A. Panichas (Acrobat Reader, see below.)
- Bedeviled by Boredom: A Voegelinian Reading of Dostoevsky's Possessed, Richard G. Avramenko (Acrobat Reader, see below.)
- The Matrix, Liberal Education, and Other Splinters in the Mind, Christine Cornell and Patrick Malcolmson (Acrobat Reader, see below.)
- On the Skeptical "Foundation" of Ethics, Sami Pihlström (Acrobat Reader, see below.)
- Leo Strauss and History: The Philosopher as Conspirator, Claes G. Ryn
- The Unraveling of American Constitutionalism: From Customary Law to Permanent Innovation, Joseph Baldacchino
- Sentimental Hogwash? On Capra's It's a Wonderful Life, Daniel J. Sullivan
- American Culture: A Story, Bruce P. Frohnen
- Burke's Higher Romanticism: Politics and the Sublime, William F. Byrne
- The Legacy of Peter Viereck: His Prose Writings, Claes G. Ryn
- Imperialism Destroys the Constitutional Republic, Michael P. Federici
- "The Last and Brightest Empire of Time": Timothy Dwight and America as Voegelin's "Authoritative Present," 1771-1787, Richard M. Gamble
- Burke's Historical Morality, Ryan Holston
- Homer's Humor: Laughter in The Iliad, Robert H. Bell
- "The Legend of the Grand Inquisitor": The Utopian as Sadist,
Gorman Beauchamp
- Debacle: The Conservative Movement in Chapter Eleven, Claes G. Ryn
- Poetry and the Mystique of the Self in John Stuart Mill: Sources of Libertarian Socialism, William D. Gairdner
- A Covenant with all Mankind: Ronald Reagan's Idyllic Vision of America in the World, Justin Garrison
- More than "Irritable Mental Gestures": Russell Kirk's Challenge to Liberalism, 1950-1960, Bradley J. Birzer
- Deadly Nothingness: A Meditation on Evil, Rouven J. Steeves
- From Civilization to Manipulation: The Discrediting and Replacement
of the Western Elite, Claes G. Ryn- Condorcet and the Logic of Technocracy, Gorman Beauchamp
- The Moral Hazard of Modern Banking, Brian Patrick Mitchell
- Shackling the Imagination: Education for Virtue in Plato and
Rousseau, Patricia M. Lines- Altruism and the Art of Writing: Plato, Cicero, and Leo
Strauss, William H. F. Altman- Being "Other Cheeky": Moral Hazard and the Thought of Stanley Hauerwas, Jeffrey Polet
- Progressive Change in Emerson's "The Conservative,"
Daniel M. Savage- William Dean Howells's America and What Went Wrong,
Mark G. Malvasi- Freedom and the Family: The Family Crisis and the Future of Western Civilization, Stephen Baskerville
- Quantification and Intelligence Testing: A Reassessment,
Richard J. Bishirjian- The Challenge Confronting Conservatives: Sustaining a Republic of Hustlers,
Walter A. McDougall- The Old and New Testaments in U.S. Foreign Policy: McDougall and American Identity,
Michael P. Federici- "The Backside of the Universe": McDougall's Throes of Democracy,
Richard M. Gamble- Defending America in an Age of Hustlers, Heists, and Unnecessary Wars: An Afterword,
Walter A. McDougall- Lawless America: What Happened to the Rule of Law, Bruce P. Frohnen
- More than 'Parchment Barriers': The Ethical Center of American Constitutionalism, Michael P. Federici
- Shylock's Conversion, Gorman Beauchamp
- Debt and Sovereignty: The Lost Lessons, Brian Patrick Mitchell
- Natural Law and History: Challenging the Legalism of John Finnis, Nathanael Blake
- Allan Bloom and Straussian Alienation, Claes G. Ryn
- Pragmatic Conservatism: A Defense, Seth Vannatta
- Guardians of the Word: Kirk, Buckley, and the Conservative Struggle with Academic Freedom, Luke Sheahan
- A Humane Economy versus Economism, Ralph E. Ancil
- 'God's Middle Children': Metaphysical Rebellion in Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club, Justin Garrison
- Man: The Lonely Animal, Joshua Mitchell
- Orhan Pamuk on the Turkish Modernization Project: Is It a Farewell to Secularism?, Üner Daglier
Poems
- Line Against Circle, Peter Viereck
- The Cynic, Paul Gottfried
- Leeks, Heidy Anne Steidlmayer
- The Necktie, William Wilborn
- For You My Dear Surgeon and Divine Revenge, Anonymous
- Gate Talk for Brodsky, Peter Viereck
- A Temporary Blackout and She and I, Robert Champ
- I Met a Fair Maid Named Democracy, Nishi Chawla
- My Ninetieth Year and Gate, Peter Viereck
- On Loving Thy Neighbor, John Rees Moore
- Love, John Rees Moore
- Florissant Fossil Beds, In the Brooklyn Museum, North Park, and Carrots, Catharine Savage Brosman
- Dr. Sam Johnson, John Rees Moore
- An American Four Seasons, Justin D. Garrison
Reviews
- The New 'Public Order,' Joseph Baldacchino on Taylor's Sources of the Self
- 'The Living Embodiment of the Nation,' Phillip G. Henderson on McDonald's American Presidency
- The Road Not Taken, Joseph Baldacchino on Hindus's Irving Babbitt, Literature, and the Democratic College and Hutchins's The Higher Learning in America
- Dignity in Old Age: The Poetical Meditations of Peter Viereck, Michael A. Weinstein on Viereck's Tide and Continuities: Last and First Poems 1995-1938
- A Thinker Behind and Ahead of His Time, David Hill Radcliffe on Babbitt's Character and Culture: Essays East and West
- Straussianism Descendant? The Historicist Renewal, Randall E. Auxier on Paraboschi's Leo Strauss e la destra americana
- 'The English Patient': A Classical Tragedy of Love and Paradox, Juliana Geran Pilon on the film version of "The English Patient"
- The Metaphysics of Postmodernism, James Seaton on Rapp's Fleeing the Universal: The Critique of Post-rational Criticism
- Religion and the Constitution, Joseph Baldacchino on Craycraft's The American Myth of Religious Freedom
- The Humbling of the Pride, Randall E. Auxier on Capaldi's The Enlightenment Project in the Analytic Conversation
- A Worthy Kaddish, Juliana Geran Pilon on Bellow's Ravelstein
- A Flawed Defense of the South, Stephen M. Klugewicz on Adams's When in the Course of Human Events: Arguing the Case for Southern Secession
- The Authoritarian Secularism of John Stuart Mill, George W. Carey on Raeder's John Stuart Mill and the Religion of Humanity
- Sources of Order in History: Voegelin and His Critics, Gregory Butler on Federici's Eric Voegelin: The Restoration of Order
- Joseph Conrad's Moral Imagination, James Seaton on Panichas's Joseph Conrad: His Moral Vision
- The Hidden Depths in Robert Frost, Ernest Suarez on Stanlis's Robert Frost: The Poet as Philosopher
- George A. Panichas Conservator Extraordinaire, Jeffrey J. Folks on Panichas's Restoring the Meaning of Conservatism: Writings from Modern Age
- To Dreamworld and Back: A Movie Out of the Ordinary, Claes G. Ryn
- Butterfield as Historian: Objectivity Over Partisanship, John M. Vella on C. T. McIntyre's Herbert Butterfield: Historian as Dissenter
- Burke and the Imaginative Grasp of Reality, Ryan Holston on William F. Byrne's Edmund Burke for Our Time: Imagination, Meaning, and Politics
- Modernity Through a Distorted Lens, Jeffrey Polet on Stephen Greenblatt's The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
- John Milton: Postmodern Hero?, William L. Howard on David Hawkes's John Milton: A Hero of Our Time
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