Human Events, Vol. XXXVIII, no. 1-52
1978
Book, 28 x 35.5 x 6.5 cm.
Materials: ink, paper
Human Events is a weekly conservative American newspaper founded in 1944 in Washington D.C. Its title derives from the first sentence of the United States Declaration of Independence: "When in the course of human events...". The introduction reads: “Human Events is objective, but it looks at events through eyes that are biased in favour of limited constitutional government, local self-government, private enterprise and individual freedom. These principles represented the bias of the Founding Fathers. We think the same bias will preserve freedom in America”. Human Events is known as the favourite newspaper of Ronald Reagan, who was a loyal subscriber from 1961. Reagan praised the newspaper for shifting his political views from liberal to conservative, and contributed several articles himself in the 1970s. Besides having run the Conservative book club, the newspaper is notorious for publishing the so-called 'Most Harmful Books' list. The list included The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels; Das Kapital by Karl Marx; Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male and Sexual Behaviour in the Human Female by Alfred Kinsey; and Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche.
