Human Events is a weekly conservative magazine founded in 1944. 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..." Conservatism is a relativistic term used to describe political philosophies that favor traditional values, where tradition refers to religious, cultural, or nationally defined beliefs and customs. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... A copy of the 1823 William J. Stone reproduction of the Declaration of Independence The Declaration of Independence was an act of the Second Continental Congress, adopted on July 4, 1776, which declared that the United Colonies) were independent of the Kingdom of Great Britain. ...

Thomas S. Winter is the editor-in-chief and Jed Babbin is the online editor[1]. Notable columnists include Ann Coulter and Robert Novak. Human Events is published by Eagle Publishing of Washington, DC, and is a sister company of Regnery Publishing. Thomas Winter is an American newspaperman who currently serves as the president and editor-in-chief of the politically conservative weekly publication Human Events. ... Ann Hart Coulter (born December 8, 1961)[1] is an American best-selling author, columnist and political commentator. ... Robert David Sanders Novak (born February 26, 1931) is a conservative political commentator and political figure. ... Aerial photo (looking NW) of the Washington Monument and the White House in Washington, DC. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C.; Washington; the Nations Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United... Unfit for Command, published by Regnery Publishing. ...

According to journalist Richard Reeves, Human Events was former President Ronald Reagan's favorite paper. During face-to-face Cold War negotiations, Reagan told Mikhail Gorbachev that he could not give up the Strategic Defense Initiative because the editors of Human Events, "the so-called right wing, and esteemed journalists, who were the first to criticize him," were "kicking his brains out" over the defense system they supported. [2] Richard Reeves is a writer, syndicated columnist and lecturer at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. ... Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967–1975). ... For other uses, see Cold War (disambiguation). ... Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (Russian: , Michail Sergeevič Gorbačëv), IPA: , surname more accurately romanized as Gorbachyov; born March 2, 1931) is a Russian politician. ... The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), commonly called Star Wars after the popular science fiction movies of the time, was proposed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983[1] to use ground-based and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic...

Human Events Assistant Editors have been:

• Timothy P. Carney
• David Freddoso
• Robert Bluey
• Amanda Carpenter

Robert B. Bluey is the editor of the daily online edition of Human Events, the oldest conservative weekly print publication in the United States. ...

Top 10 lists

Human Events regularily puts out top ten lists.

Harmful Books

Human Events put out a list of Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries[3]:

1. The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
2. Mein Kampf, by Adolf Hitler
3. Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong, by Mao Zedong
4. Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, by Alfred Kinsey
5. Democracy and Education, by John Dewey
6. Das Kapital, by Karl Marx
7. The Feminine Mystique, by Betty Friedan
8. The Course of Positive Philosophy, by Auguste Comte
9. Beyond Good and Evil, by Friedrich Nietzsche
10. General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, by John Maynard Keynes

Honourable mentions: The Manifesto of the Communist Party (German: ), usually referred to as The Communist Manifesto, was first published on February 21, 1848[]by J. E. Burghard in London, and is one of the worlds most influential political tracts. ... Karl Heinrich Marx (May 5, 1818, Trier, Germany – March 14, 1883, London) was a German philosopher, political economist, and revolutionary. ... Friedrich Engels (November 28, 1820, Wuppertal – August 5, 1895, London), a 19th-century German political philosopher, developed communist theory alongside his better-known collaborator, Karl Marx, co-authoring The Communist Manifesto (1848). ... Mein Kampf (English translation: My Struggle or My Fight) is the signature work of Adolf Hitler, combining elements of autobiography with an exposition of Hitlers political ideology of Nazism. ... Hitler redirects here. ... Cover of Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong with Chinese words Supreme Directives Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (毛主席语录 Pinyin: Máo Zhǔxí Yǔlù), better known in the West as The Little Red Book, has been published by the Government of the Peoples Republic of China since 1966. ... “Mao” redirects here. ... The Kinsey Reports are two books on human sexual behavior, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), by Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell Pomeroy and others. ... Alfred Charles Kinsey (June 23, 1894 – August 25, 1956), was an American biologist and professor of entomology and zoology who in 1947 founded the Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction at Indiana University Bloomington, now called the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction. ... John Dewey (October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, whose thoughts and ideas have been greatly influential in the United States and around the world. ... Das Kapital (Capital, in the English translation) is a very lengthy treatise on political economy written by Karl Marx in German. ... Karl Heinrich Marx (May 5, 1818, Trier, Germany – March 14, 1883, London) was a German philosopher, political economist, and revolutionary. ... Cover of the original paperback edition of The Feminine Mystique The Feminine Mystique is a 1963 book written by Betty Friedan which attacked the popular notion that women during this time could only find fulfillment through childbearing and homemaking. ... Betty Friedan, 1960 Betty Friedan (February 4, 1921 – February 4, 2006) was an American feminist, activist and writer. ... Auguste Comte (full name: Isidore Marie Auguste François Xavier Comte; January 17, 1798 - September 5, 1857) was a French thinker who coined the term sociology. ... This article is about Friedrich Nietzsches book. ... Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 to August 25, 1900) (IPA: ) was a German philosopher. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards and conform with our NPOV policy, this article or section may require cleanup. ... John Maynard Keynes (right) and Harry Dexter White at the Bretton Woods Conference John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes, CB (pronounced canes, IPA ) (5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946) was a British economist whose ideas, called Keynesian economics, had a major impact on modern economic and political theory as well...

1. The Population Bomb, by Paul R. Ehrlich
2. What Is To Be Done, by Vladimir Lenin
3. Authoritarian personality, by Theodor W. Adorno
4. On Liberty, by John Stuart Mill
5. Beyond Freedom and Dignity, by B. F. Skinner
6. Reflections on Violence, by Georges Sorel
7. The Promise of American Life, by Herbert Croly
8. The Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin
9. Madness and Civilization, by Michel Foucault
10. Soviet Communism: A New Civilization, by Sidney and Beatrice Webb
11. Coming of Age in Samoa, by Margaret Mead
12. Unsafe at Any Speed, by Ralph Nader
13. The Second Sex, by Simone de Beauvoir
14. Prison Notebooks, by Antonio Gramsci
15. Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson
16. The Wretched of the Earth, by Frantz Fanon
17. Introduction to Psychoanalysis, by Sigmund Freud
18. The Greening of America, by Charles A. Reich
19. Limits to Growth, by Club of Rome (Donella Meadows et al.)
20. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, by Charles Darwin

This list of the "most harmful" books has several ones in common with the list, published by the conservative Intercollegiate Studies Institute, of the books that they consider "The Fifty Worst Books of the Century" . The Population Bomb (1968) is a book written by Paul R. Ehrlich. ... Paul Ralph Ehrlich (born May 29, 1932 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a Stanford University professor and a renowned entomologist specializing in Lepidoptera (butterflies). ... What Is to Be Done? (Russian: ) was a political pamphlet, written by Vladimir Lenin at the end of 1901 and early 1902. ... Lenin redirects here. ... The concept of authoritarian personality denotes a number of qualities, which according to the theories of Theodor Adorno predict ones potential for fascist and antidemocratic leanings and behaviors. ... Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund Adorno (September 11, 1903 – August 6, 1969) was a German sociologist, philosopher, pianist, musicologist, and composer. ... On Liberty is a philosophical work in the English language by 19th century philosopher John Stuart Mill, first published in 1859. ... John Stuart Mill (20th May 1806 – 8th May 1873), a British philosopher and political economist, was an influential liberal thinker of the 19th century. ... Beyond Freedom and Dignity is a book-length essay written by American psychologist B. F. Skinner and first published in 1971. ... Drawing of B. F. Skinner Burrhus Frederic B. F. Skinner (March 20, 1904 – August 18, 1990) was an American psychologist and author. ... Georges Eugène Sorel (2 November 1847-29 August 1922) was a French philosopher and theorist of revolutionary syndicalism. ... The Promise of American Life is a book published by Herbert Croly, founder of The New Republic, in 1909. ... Herbert David Croly (January 23, 1869 - May 17, 1930) was a liberal political author. ... British naturalist Charles Darwins book, The Origin of Species, is one of the pivotal works in scientific literature and arguably the pre-eminent work in biology. ... For other people of the same surname, and places and things named after Charles Darwin, see Darwin. ... Michel Foucault Michel Foucault (October 15, 1926 – June 26, 1984) was a French philosopher and held a chair at the Collège de France, a chair to which he gave the title The History of Systems of Thought. His writings have had an enormous impact on other scholarly work: Foucault... Michel Foucault (IPA pronunciation: ; English-speakers pronunciation varies) (October 15, 1926 – June 25, 1984) was a French philosopher and historian. ... A self-portrait Sidney James Webb, 1st Baron Passfield PC (13 July 1859 – 13 October 1947) was a British socialist, economist and reformer, normally referred to in the same breath as his wife, Beatrice Webb. ... Beatrice Webb Martha Beatrice Potter Webb (January 2, 1858 - April 30, 1943) (also called Beatrice Webb) was a British socialist, economist and reformer, usually referred to in the same breath as her husband, Sidney Webb. ... Coming of Age in Samoa, first published in 1928, is a book by Margaret Mead based upon the youth in Samoa and lightly relating to youth in America. ... Margaret Mead Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901, Philadelphia – November 15, 1978, New York City) was an American cultural anthropologist. ... Exhibit featuring the book at Henry Ford Museum, Detroit Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile by Ralph Nader, published in 1965, is a book detailing his claims of resistance by car manufacturers to the introduction of safety features, like seat belts, and their general... Ralph Nader Ralph Nader (born February 27, 1934), is an American attorney and political activist. ... The Second Sex (French: Le Deuxième Sexe, 1949) is the best known work of Simone de Beauvoir and a seminal text in twentieth-century feminism. ... La Beauvoir redirects here; also see: Beauvoir (disambiguation). ... Antonio Gramsci (IPA: ) (January 22, 1891 – April 27, 1937) was an Italian writer, politician and political theorist. ... Silent Spring is a book written by Rachel Carson and published by Houghton Mifflin in September 1962. ... Rachel Louise Carson (27 May 1907 – 14 April 1964) was a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-born zoologist and marine biologist whose landmark book, Silent Spring, is often credited with having launched the global environmental movement. ... The Wretched of the Earth is Frantz Fanons best-known work, written during and regarding the Algerian struggle for independence from colonial rule. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Sigmund Freud (born Sigismund Schlomo Freud) May 6, 1856 – September 23, 1939; (IPA pronunciation: [] in German, [] in English) was a Jewish-Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist who co-founded the psychoanalytic school of psychology. ... The Greening of America was a book published in 1970 by Charles A. Reich. ... Charles A. Reich (b. ... Limits to Growth was a 1972 book modeling the consequences of a rapidly growing world population and finite resource supplies, commissioned by the Club of Rome. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Donella Dana Meadows (March 13, 1941 Elgin, Illinois, USA - February 20, 2001, New Hampshire) was a pioneering environmental scientist, a teacher and writer. ... Title page of the first edition of Charles Darwins The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. ... For other people of the same surname, and places and things named after Charles Darwin, see Darwin. ... The Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Inc. ... The Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Inc. ...

External links

• HUMAN EVENTS - Conservative News, Views & Books
• Archive of Top 10 lists
• (Italian) Recension and criticism of the list of the "most harmful" books