Ten contemporary thinkers / edited by Victor E. Amend [and] Leo T. Hendrick.

Includes bibliographical references.

Robert Maynard Hutchins -- George Orwell -- E.M. Forster -- Joseph Wood Krutch -- Archibald MacLeish -- Carl L. Becker -- Walter Lippmann -- C.S. Lewis -- Julian Huxley -- E.B. White.

Gate Receipts and Glory / Robert Maynard Hutchins -- Where Do We Go from Here in Education? / Robert Maynard Hutchins -- University for Utopians / Robert Maynard Hutchins -- Is Democracy Possible? / Robert Maynard Hutchins -- Shooting an Elephant / George Orwell -- Politics and the English Language / George Orwell -- The Re-writing of History / George Orwell -- The Principles of Newspeak / George Orwell -- Anonymity: An Inquiry / E. M. Forster -- What I Believe / E. M. Forster -- Does Culture Matter? / E. M. Forster -- Art for Art's Sake / E. M. Forster -- Modern Man's Dilemma / Joseph Wood Krutch -- In Back of Man a World of Nature / Joseph Wood Krutch -- Is Our Common Man Too Common? / Joseph Wood Krutch -- The Mystique of the Desert / Joseph Wood Krutch -- Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Welfare / Joseph Wood Krutch -- The Writer and Revolution / Archibald MacLeish -- Humanism and the Belief in Man / Archibald MacLeish -- The Conquest of America / Archibald MacLeish -- The Isolation of the American Artist / Archibald MacLeish -- Detachment and the Writing of History / Carl L. Becker -- Climates of Opinion / Carl L. Becker -- Every Man His Own Historian / Carl L. Becker -- Modern Democracy: The Ideal / Carl L. Becker -- Freedom of Speech and Press / Carl L. Becker -- Routineer and Inventor / Walter Lippmann -- The Unattainable Ideal / Walter Lippmann -- Government in the Great Society / Walter Lippmann -- The Eclipse of the Public Philosophy / Walter Lippmann -- Our English Syllabus / C. S. Lewis -- On Literary Criticism / C. S. Lewis -- Right and Wrong As a Clue to the Meaning of the Universe / C. S. Lewis -- Membership / C. S. Lewis -- Screwtape Proposes a Toast / C. S. Lewis -- Developed Religion / Julian Huxley -- Scientific Humanism / Julian Huxley -- Population and Human Destiny / Julian Huxley -- Transhumanism / Julian Huxley -- Quo Vadimus? / E. B. White -- The Door / E. B. White -- Freedom / E. B. White -- The Morning of the Day They Did It / E. B. White.