Human Events
Human Events is a weekly conservative[1] magazine founded in 1944 by Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post editor (1933-40) Felix Morley, newspaperman Frank Hanighen and former New Dealer[2] Henry Regnery. The magazine takes its name from the first sentence of the United States Declaration of Independence which reads "When in the course of human events..." In 1951, Frank Chodorov, former director of the Henry George School of Social Science[3] in New York, replaced Morley as editor, merging his newsletter, analysis, into Human Events.[4]
Thomas S. Winter is the editor-in-chief and Jason Mattera is the online editor[1]. Notable columnists include Michael Reagan, Ann Coulter, Oliver North, and Robert Novak. Human Events is published by Eagle Publishing of Washington, DC, and is a sister company of Regnery Publishing.
Human Events was former President Ronald Reagan's "favorite reading for years," according to biographer Richard Reeves, although it "was no favorite of the new men around Reagan. Baker and Darman, and Deaver too, did their best each week to keep it out of the reading material they gave the President..."[5]
Just before his 1982 tax hike, Reagan met with what he called "some of my old friends from Human Events" (he mentioned Stan Evans and Allan Ryskind),[6] who warned him about "disloyal" White House staff (in particular James Baker) who favored making a deal on taxes with the Democratic Congress. (Reagan subsequently made such a deal, in which for each $1 in higher taxes Congress promised $3 in spending cuts; Reagan delivered the tax hike, but Congress reneged, actually increasing spending.)[7]
At the 1986 Reykjavík Summit, Reagan told Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev that he could not give up the Strategic Defense Initiative because "'...the people who were the most outspoken critics of the Soviet Union over the years’—he mentioned his favorite paper, Human Events," according to Reeves, "‘They’re kicking my brains out,’ Reagan said."[8]
Prominent former Human Events contributors have included Pat Sajak, Timothy P. Carney, David Freddoso, Robert Bluey, Amanda Carpenter and Matt Lewis.
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[edit] Top 10 lists
Human Events regularly puts out top ten lists.
[edit] Harmful Books
Human Events put out a list of Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries[2]:
- The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
- Mein Kampf, by Adolf Hitler
- Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong, by Mao Zedong
- Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, by Alfred Kinsey
- Democracy and Education, by John Dewey
- Das Kapital, by Karl Marx
- The Feminine Mystique, by Betty Friedan
- The Course of Positive Philosophy, by Auguste Comte
- Beyond Good and Evil, by Friedrich Nietzsche
- General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, by John Maynard Keynes
Twenty books received honorable mention, including The Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin, and Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson.
This list of the "most harmful" books has several in common with a list, published by the conservative Intercollegiate Studies Institute, of the books that they consider "The Fifty Worst Books of the Century".
[edit] References
- ^ According to the website of Human Events, it "gives voice to the great conservative thinkers of our era"
- ^ Robert McC. Thomas Jr. (June 23, 1996). "Henry Regnery, 84, Ground-Breaking Conservative Publisher". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/23/us/henry-regnery-84-ground-breaking-conservative-publisher.html.
- ^ The Henry George School of Social Science
- ^ Hamowy, Ronald (2008). The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism. SAGE. p. 62. ISBN 1412965802. http://books.google.com/books?id=yxNgXs3TkJYC. Retrieved 2010-07-24.
- ^ Reeves, Richard (2005). President Reagan: The Triumph of Imagination. New York: Simon and Schuster. p. 24. ISBN 0743282302. http://books.google.com/books?id=RMKgNOytMWIC. Retrieved 2010-07-24.
- ^ Skinner, Kiron K.; Anderson, Annelise; Anderson, Martin (2004). Reagan: A Life in Letters. New York: Simon and Schuster. p. 595. ISBN 0743276426. http://books.google.com/books?id=ZrRc_ABenS8C. Retrieved 2010-07-24.
- ^ Hayward, Steven F. (2009). The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution, 1980-1989. New York: Random House, Inc.. pp. 210-212. ISBN 1400053579. http://books.google.com/books?id=-TUBoKsLAjAC. Retrieved 2010-07-24.
- ^ Reeves, Richard (2005). President Reagan: The Triumph of Imagination. New York: Simon and Schuster. pp. 351-352. ISBN 0743282302. http://books.google.com/books?id=RMKgNOytMWIC. Retrieved 2010-07-24.
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