Volume 5, Number 2, Summer 1996
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Features
The Power of Great Poetry To Shape Character and Build the Nation: Dante, Humboldt, and Helen Keller
by Muriel Mirak Weissbach
The Classical Curriculum of Wilhelm von Humboldt
by Marianna Wertz
‘Homeostatic Simulation’
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Peter Abelard: Discoverer of Individuality in the Feudal Age
by Helga Zepp LaRouche
Translation:
Dialogue Among a Philosopher, a Jew, and a Christian
by Peter Abelard
Excerpts translated from the French by Katherine Notley.
Editorial
Declare the Jubilee—Beginning in Bosnia-Hercegovina!
Music
Lyric Song and the Birth of the Korean Nation
Interview: Dr. Kwon Gil-sang: ‘We had to find a way to uplift the children’
by Kathy Wolfe
News
LaRouche in Moscow: ‘U.S., Russia Must Ally vs. British’
Support Grows for LaRouche Exoneration
Delegation Tours Bosnia for New Marshall Plan
U.S. Schiller Institute Conference ‘For an Economic and Cultural Renaissance’
Expose British ‘Big Lie’ Tactic Against Sudan
Commentary
The Brotherhood of the Common Life And the Education of Orphans
by William F. Wertz, Jr.
Interviews
Dr. Kwon Gil-sang: ‘We had to find a way to uplift the children’
by Kathy Wolfe
Mirasada Njemsevic, M.D., University Hospital, Sarajevo: ‘I think the world is forgetting Bosnia’.
by Gabriella Chaitkin
Bishop Franjo Komarica, Banja Luka, Bosnia: ‘We are people, entitled to fundamental human rights!’
by Umberto Pascali
Exhibits
Master Storyteller of the Dutch Golden Age
by Nora Hamerman
On April 28, the National Gallery of Art opened its second exhibition this year of a major Dutch artist of the Seventeenth century. After the brilliant success of “Johannes Vermeer” last winter, now it is the turn of an artist less known to the international public, but much beloved in his homeland, and acknowledged as one of the first-rate masters of the Dutch Golden Age: “Jan Steen: Painter and Storyteller.”
Books
Adam Smith’s Dearth of Economics
by Richard Freeman
The Life of Adam Smith by Ian Simpson Ross.
Seeking To Serve Two Masters
by William F. Wertz, Jr.
The Catholic Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Michael Novak.