Human Events

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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..."

Thomas S. Winter and Terence P. Jeffrey are the current editors of Human Events[1]. Notable columnists include Ann Coulter and Robert Novak. Human Events is published by Eagle Publishing of Washington, DC.

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]

Human Events Assistant Editors have been:

[edit] Top 10 lists

Human Events regularily puts out top ten lists.

[edit] Harmful Books

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

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

Honourable mentions:

The Population Bomb, by Paul R. Ehrlich
What Is To Be Done, by Vladimir Lenin
Authoritarian personality, by Theodor W. Adorno
On Liberty, by John Stuart Mill
Beyond Freedom and Dignity, by B. F. Skinner
Reflections on Violence, by Georges Sorel
The Promise of American Life, by Herbert Croly
The Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin
Madness and Civilization, by Michel Foucault
Soviet Communism: A New Civilization, by Sidney and Beatrice Webb
Coming of Age in Samoa, by Margaret Mead
Unsafe at Any Speed, by Ralph Nader
The Second Sex, by Simone de Beauvoir
Prison Notebooks, by Antonio Gramsci
Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson
The Wretched of the Earth, by Frantz Fanon
Introduction to Psychoanalysis, by Sigmund Freud
The Greening of America, by Charles A. Reich
Limits to Growth, by Club of Rome
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" .