Raymond Aron - an idealist with common sense

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Contents - 30 Jun 2001 Editorial :Winning elections ... or governing the country? - Peter Westmore Canberra observed - Beazley falters in pre-election " phoney war" Economics - Industry policy where to now? - Ken Aldred National affairs - One.Tel collapse- shades of Fawlty Towers - R.J. Stove Straws in the Wind - Max Teichmann Clark allegations leave political players lost for words - Michael Scammell Barley deregulation - Victorian ALP backs agribusiness - Pat Byrne The Media - John Styles Letter: Insurance failures - who should pay? - John L. Bailey Raymond Aron - an idealist with common sense Hague self-destructs: so why won't the Tory Party? - R.J. Stove 17,000 US scientists say greenhouse theory wrong New opportunities in life issues debate - Paul Russell Out of Ireland - Anthony Cappello Is news what the Big Six say it is? - Bob Browning 60th anniversary of Baltic deportations - Philip Palm-Peipman Books: Parental Control, by Jan Howells and John Watson - Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer) Film - Pearl Harbor, a film that will live in infamy - Tony O'Brien

Raymond Aron's famous work The Opium of the Intellectuals has been re-released 45 years after it was first published in France. American critic Roger Kimball explains that Aron's great virtue - common sense - is as rare today as it was in the French intellectual maelstrom of the 1950s.

To read this article in full go to http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/19/may01/opium.htm
 
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