Word: humanisme
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In the delirious whirl of the Manhattan club scene depicted in Social Disease (1986), le plus chic twosome is Guy and Venice Huber, dancing their youth away -- and, because they are Rudnick people, constantly refreshing it. With its Evelyn Waugh drawl, Social Disease is Rudnick's revenge on the less...
Western secular humanism points to adulthood as the period in which the individual's youthful idealism is defeated by the disillusioning forces of recognized sexual roles and intellectual practicality. In the 90s, the question of sexuality includes not just gender but sexual orientation and the use of sex as an...
Some of rap is about acting, role playing. That's probably one reason why so many rappers are going into movies. Cube made an impressive debut as a sympathetic, beer-drinking thug in the 1991 Boyz N the Hood, and in Trespass, coming out this week, he is a gun...
One way the White House has been doing that is with its education policy. The Republican proposal -- loudly trumpeted during the Houston convention -- would provide government aid to middle-income and poor families who want to send children to private schools, including church institutions. Clinton's program is limited to...
The ultimate irony, or perhaps tragedy, is that secularism has not led to humanism. We have gradually dissolved -- deconstructed -- the human being into a bundle of reflexes, impulses, neuroses, nerve endings. The great religious heresy used to be making man the measure of all things; but we have come close...