Volume 24, Number 1, January
1995
"The Sixties Are Dead: Long Live the Nineties"
by Cal Thomas
Syndicated Columnist, Los Angeles Times
Preview: The decade of the 1960s is widely regarded as one of the most important eras in American history -- a real watershed. Although it has persisted for more than three decades, Cal Thomas argues that the sixties' legacy was destructive and that it has finally died due to its own failures. What will take its place? He offers an optimistic prediction that foresees more consensus than conflict and a return to "an older, higher tradition" of "family, freedom, and faith." This lecture was delivered during Hillsdale's Center for Constructive Alternatives seminar, "Newsmakers and Mythmakers: The Modern Media and Advocacy Journalism," last March.
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Volume 24, Number 2, February
1995
"Hillsdale College and the Western Tradition:
Exploring the Roots of Freedom"
by Robert W. Blackstock
Vice President for Admissions, Hillsdale College
How much America has depended on the Western tradition and how much it stands to lose now that this tradition is under assault is the subject of this thoughtful essay by Hillsdale College Vice President Robert W. Blackstock. His remarks were delivered during Hillsdale's Center for Constructive Alternatives seminar, "The Quest for Freedom: Celebrating 150 Years at Hillsdale College," in September of 1994.
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Volume 24, Number 3, March
1995
"The Moral Foundations of Society"
by Margaret Thatcher
Former Prime Minister, Great Britain
In November 1994, Lady Thatcher delivered the concluding lecture in Hillsdale's Center for Constructive Alternatives seminar, "God and Man: Perspectives on Christianity in the 20th Century" before an audience of 2,500 students, faculty, and guests. In an edited version of that lecture, she examines how the Judeo-Christian tradition has provided the moral foundations of America and other nations in the West and contrasts their experience with that of the former Soviet Union.
Addendum Preview: This special reprint issue of Imprimis features a lecture delivered in 1978 on the Hillsdale College campus by the late Nobel Laureate Friedrich von Hayek, one of this century's greatest defenders of free markets and the free society. Dr. Hayek argued that no one, not even the federal government, possesses enough knowledge to predict what will happen in the marketplace. Central planning, therefore, is doomed to failure. Societies prosper only when individuals are free to pool their limited knowledge and to make their own decisions.
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Volume 24, Number 4, April
1995
"The Religious Roots of Freedom"
by M. Stanton Evans
Director, National Journalism Center
"What If Jesus Had Never Been Born?"
by D. James Kennedy*
Senior Minister,
Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church
and President,
Coral Ridge Ministries
In this issue, M. Stanton Evans makes the case that the Founders intended the First Amendment to protect religion from government. He offers compelling historical evidence to support this view and to refute the "liberal history lesson," which teaches that religion and freedom are in conflict. Mr. Evans spoke before an audience of over 300 students, faculty, and guests during Hillsdale's Center for Constructive Alternatives seminar, "God and Man: Perspectives on Christianity in the 20th Century," last November.
*With Jerry Newcombe. From What If Jesus Had Never Been Born? (Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1994) Reverend D. James Kennedy also participated in the November 1994 CCA, addressing an audience of over 1,500.
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Volume 24, Number 5, May
1995
"A New Vision of Man:
How Christianity Has Changed Political Economy"
by Michael Novak
Author, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism
One of the 20th century's greatest religious writers, Michael Novak, addresses the relationship between religion and economics. He argues that Christ revolutionized the human conception of the political economy in at least seven important ways. This presentation was prepared for a July 1994 seminar in Crakow, Poland on "Centesimus Annus and the Free Society," and for a November 1994 seminar sponsored by Hillsdale's Center for Constructive Alternatives seminar, "God and Man: Perspectives on Christianity in the 20th Century."
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