Contributors

ROGER DONWAY is TNI’s senior editor. For this month’s cover feature, Roger interviews prolific philosopher and author Stephen Hicks, who explains—no, make that “dissects”—postmodern critics of reason. Roger also reviews Why Truth Matters, a book which takes on the postmoderns with arguments that are less than compelling. And in his monthly “Private I” column, our Mr. Donway builds on the case he began to make last month: validating the moral and legal autonomy of the CEO within the corporate structure.

MARSHA FAMILARO ENRIGHT is founder and president of the Council Oak Montessori School near Chicago. She is also president of the Reason, Individualism, Freedom Institute, where she and colleagues are developing a new college informed by principles of reason and individualism (www.collegeunitedstates.org). In past issues, Marsha profiled the popular authors Tom Wolfe and Cameron Hawley. This time, she surveys the life and work of another formidable twentieth-century novelist, James Clavell.

EDWARD L. HUDGINS, executive director of The Atlas Society, presents the second installment in his series spotlighting classic television documentaries of the past. This time he reviews the late Jacob Bronowski’s The Ascent of Man, the inspiring 1973 series that chronicled human scientific and cultural progress, and which traced man’s achievements to their philosophic wellsprings. Ed also reviews two bestsellers by atheist Sam Harris that are meant to persuade Christians to abandon their religious faith: The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation.

ROBERT L. JONES, TNI entertainment editor and film reviewer, was awestruck by The Lives of Others, which recently won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film. In this issue, Robert also sings the praises of Amazing Grace, which dramatizes the life of William Wilberforce, the man who led the battle to ban slavery throughout the British Empire. Mr. Jones is also enthusiastic about the reissue of Becket, a grand cinematic study of moral integrity that starred two acting legends, Richard Burton and Peter O’Toole.