Contents
Antigone’s Flaw, 4
Patricia M. Lines
Realism, Romanticism, and Politics in Mark Twain, 16
William F. Byrne
On Wu Mi‘s Conservatism, 42
Ong Chang Woei
Russell Kirk and the Prospects for Conservatism, 56
W. Wesley McDonald
Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the
Romantic Roots of Modern Democracy, 77
William Gairdner
Acedia, Tristitia, and Sloth: Early
Christian Forerunners to Chronic Ennui, 89
Ian Irvine
Reviews
The Metaphysics of Postmodernism, 104
James Seaton on Carl Rapp’s Fleeing the Universal: The Critique of Post-Rational Criticism
Religion and the Constitution, 110
Joseph Baldacchino on Kenneth R. Craycraft, Jr.’s The American Myth of Religious Freedom
The Humanities and Substance, 120
Patricia Likos Ricci on Robert E. Proctor’s Defining the Humanities: How Rediscovering a Tradition Can Improve Our Schools