Volume 5, Number 1, Spring 1996
Features
How Hobbes’ Mathematics Misshaped Modern History
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Paolo Sarpi on the Origin of Religion
Thomas Hobbes: Fascist Exponent of Enlightenment Science
by Brian Lantz
The Mandeville Model
by H. Graham Lowry
Christian Economics—Or the ‘Structures of Sin’?
by William F. Wertz, Jr.
A Response to ‘The Modern Development of Financial Activities in the Light of the Ethical Demands of Christianity’
Editorials
The Year of Decision
Save the Children in Bosnia-Hercegovina!
Translation
Friedrich Schiller: ‘Shakespeare’s Shade’
News
Schiller Institute Conference in Eltville, Germany: ‘The Future Determines the Present’
LaRouche Exoneration Fight: Black Officials Demand Congress Investigate D.O.J.
Memorandum to Mankind 1996: World Catastrophe or Progress of Civilization?
Schiller Institute Mobilizes Against Newt Gingrich's ‘Contract’
MSIA Open Letter to Mexican President Zedillo
Fidelio Article Provokes Debate in China
Interview
Bishop Anthony Pilla, President, U.S. National Conference of Catholic Bishops
by Nina Ogden
‘You must measure a country by the way it treats its most needy’.
Exhibits
Johannes Vermeer, Artist of Divine Harmony
by Nora Hamerman
Exactly three hundred years ago, in 1696, some twenty-one works by Johannes Vermeer were auctioned off together in Amsterdam. Today, the first retrospective exhibit devoted entirely to the Dutch artist reunites twenty-one of his thirty-six known paintings at Washington’s National Gallery of Art (November 1995-February 1996) and the Mauritshuis, The Hague (March-June 1996).
Universal Values in Distinctly American Settings
by Janice Chaitkin
The National Gallery of Art, and curators Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr. and Franklin Kelly, have done a great service to the public by mounting a comprehensive exhibition of the art of the American painter Winslow Homer.
Books
Tracking the Killers of Dr. King
by Edward Spannaus
Orders to Kill: The Truth Behind the Murder of Martin Luther King by William F. Pepper
Missing the Chance To Shape History
by Anthony K. Wikrent
Lincoln by David Herbert Donald
Musical ‘Classroom Mathematics’
by Bruce Director
Emblems of Mind: The Inner Life of Music and Mathematics by Edward Rothstein
Apostle of a New Dark Age
by Katherine Notley
On the Eve of the Millennium: The Future of Democracy Through an Age of Unreason by Conor Cruise O’Brien
Transmitting Kepler’s Physics to China
Hsu Kuang-ch’i and Astronomical Reform: The Process of the Chinese Acceptance of Western Astronomy by Keizo Hashimoto, and Controversial Ideas in China and Europe: A Biography of Jean-Francois Foucquet, S.J. by John W. Witek, S.J.