Humanitas articles from September 2000

Humanitas archives from September 2000

Dimensions of Power: The Transformation of Liberalism and the Limits of 'Politics'.
September 22, 2000... Every age has its dominant intellectual and imaginative mind-set and corresponding pattern of practical striving. Deeply rooted ideas, hopes and fears shape desire, and desire in turn influences thought and intuition. Human beings perceive...

On Tradition.
September 22, 2000... Tradition can be a highly evaluative concept. Conservatives often evoke the idea of tradition to express reverence for continuity and the past. Tradition can act as an anti-theoretical concept deployed to question the role of doctrine and...

The Dystopian Theodicy of Parson Malthus.
September 22, 2000... One may imagine possible worlds without sin and without unhappiness, and one could make some like Utopian or Sevarambian romances: but these same worlds again would be very inferior to ours in goodness. I cannot show you this in detail.... But...

The Sense and Sensibility of Betrayal: Discovering the Meaning of Treachery through Jane Austen.
September 22, 2000... Introduction In the past few years the charge of "betrayal" has become all too common. Yet, with all the fanfare and publicity attached to these charges, there has been surprisingly little written about what we even mean by the term. It...

Charles Austin Beard: Liberal Foe of American Internationalism.
September 22, 2000... You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. Charles Austin Beard...

A Worthy Kaddish.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Ravelstein, by Saul Bellow. New York: Viking Press, 2000. 233 pp. $24.95 hardback. New York: Penguin USA, 2001. 240 pp. $13 paperback. Witty, clever, elegant, Ravelstein has been hailed as a great read. But this is no ordinary novel: its...

A Flawed Defense of the South.(Review)
September 22, 2000... When in the Course of Human Events: Arguing the Case for Southern Secession, by Charles Adams. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000. xiv + 229 pp. + notes, bibliographical essay, index. $24.95. This work is a spirited polemic...

Reflections on Past and Present.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Thinking Past a Problem: Essays in the History of Ideas, by Preston King. London: Frank Cass Publishers, 2000. 339 pp. $62.50. Spanning a period of over thirty years, these essays constitute an extended reflection on the intellectual...