Contrary to the tenor of the present age, money, power, and celebrity do not of themselves the good life make. The National Humanities Institute, through its research and publications, addresses personal and collective well-being at their ultimate source in the moral, intellectual, and aesthetical life of society.

Art, Literature, and Life

• Why the Humanities Matter, Mark L. Melcher
• 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
• The Humanities in a Technological Society, John Paul Russo
• How Conservatives Failed "The Culture," Claes G. Ryn
• The Moral Sense in Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim, George A. Panichas 
• Voyaging with Odysseus: The Wile and Resilience of Virtue, John Rees Moore
  
• Irving Babbitt and Cultural Renewal, James Seaton
• Morality and Virtue in Poetry and Philosophy: A Reading of Homer's Iliad XXIV, Hektor K. T. Yan
• Method and Civic Education, Peter Alexander Meyers 
• Metapolitics Revisited, Peter Viereck
• Kafka's Afflicted Vision: A Literary-Theological Critique, George A. Panichas 
• Bedeviled by Boredom: A Voegelinian Reading of Dostoevsky's Possessed, Richard G. Avramenko 
• The Matrix, Liberal Education, and Other Splinters in the Mind, Christine Cornell and Patrick Malcolmson 
• In the Clearing: Continuity and Change in Frost's Dualism, Peter J. Stanlis
  
• History for Life: Simms and Nietzsche Compared, Colin D. Pearce
  
• Lyric Poetry, the Novel, and Revolution: Milan Kundera's Life is Elsewhere, James Seaton
  
• Homer's Humor: Laughter in The Iliad, Robert H. Bell
  
• "The Legend of the Grand Inquisitor": The Utopian as Sadist,
  Gorman Beauchamp
  

Character and Knowledge

• How We Know What We Know: Babbitt, Positivism and Beyond, Claes G. Ryn 
• On Wu Mi's Conservatism, Ong Chang Woei
• Knowing Beyond Science: What Can We Know and How Can We Know?
  W. J.  Korab-Karpowicz
• Ethics and the Common Good: Abstract vs. Experiential, Joseph Baldacchino

Constitutionalism

• Democratizing the Constitution: The Failure of the Seventeenth Amendment, C. H. Hoebeke
• Political Philosophy and the Unwritten Constitution, Claes G. Ryn
• Committees on Enumerated Powers:
How Congress Can Revive the Constitution, Joseph Baldacchino
• Virtue, Wisdom, Experience, Not Abstract Rights, Form the Basis of the American Republic, Gregory S. Ahern
• The Unraveling of American Constitutionalism: From Customary Law to Permanent Innovation, Joseph Baldacchino
  
• Imperialism Destroys the Constitutional Republic, Michael P. Federici
  
• Regulation of Immigration Historically a State Function, Joseph Baldacchino
  

Economics and Morality

• Economics and the Moral Order, Joseph Baldacchino 

The Moral Imagination

• Imaginative Origins of Modernity: Life as Daydream and Nightmare, Claes G. Ryn
  
• Lincoln, Macbeth, and the Moral Imagination, Michael Knox Beran
• Sentimental Hogwash? On Capra's It's a Wonderful Life, Daniel J. Sullivan 

Religion and Society

• Religion and the Constitution, Joseph Baldacchino on Craycraft's The American Myth of Religious Freedom
• Mill's Religion of Humanity: Consequences and Implications, Linda C. Raeder 
• William James and the Moral Will, Jeff Polet
  
• Augustine and the Case for Limited Government, Linda C. Raeder 
• Harmony and Beauty, Disease and Suffering: Indeterminacy a Necessary Condition for Free Will, Mario Zatti
  
• "The Last and Brightest Empire of Time": Timothy Dwight and America as Voegelin's "Authoritative Present," 1771-1787, Richard M. Gamble
  
• Cultural Renewal: The Principle of Religious and Ethical Restraint, Joseph Baldacchino
  

Restraint among Nations

• Imposing Our 'Values' by Force, Robert F. Ellsworth and Dimitri K. Simes
• Can a Decadent Nation Impose International Peace? Joseph Baldacchino
• The 'Fatal Flaw' of Internationalism: Babbitt on Humanitarianism, Richard M. Gamble
• The Choice We Must Face: Democracy and Imperialism, or Democracy and Standards? Irving Babbitt
• Unity Through Diversity: Humanity's Higher Ground, Claes G. Ryn
• Savior Nation: Woodrow Wilson and the Gospel of Service, Richard M. Gamble 

Unity in Diversity

• Out of Many, One—Or Chaos, Joseph Baldacchino
• Unity Through Diversity: Humanity's Higher Ground, Claes G. Ryn

Universality in History

• The Value-Centered Historicism of Edmund Burke, Joseph Baldacchino
• Universality and History, Claes G. Ryn
• Defining Historicism, Claes G. Ryn
• The Metaphysics of Postmodernism, James Seaton on Rapp's Fleeing the Universal: The Critique of Post-rational Criticism
• The Politics of Transcendence: The Pretentious Passivity of Platonic Idealism, Claes G. Ryn
• History as Synthesis, Claes G. Ryn 
• Piety, Universality, and History: Leo Strauss on Thucydides, Emil A. Kleinhaus 
• Ethics and the Common Good: Abstract vs. Experiential, Joseph Baldacchino
  
• On the Skeptical "Foundation" of Ethics, Sami Pihlström
  
• Leo Strauss and History: The Philosopher as Conspirator, Claes G. Ryn 
• Burke's Historical Morality, Ryan Holston
  

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