Benjamin R Barber believes the concepts of citizenship and civil society should be integrated into commercial space to promote civic interaction and communication between building professionals and the neighborhoods where their structures are located. Toward this end, Barber established the Walt Whitman Center for...

Samuel Barber and Benjamin Britten-A Listener's Guide: Their Lives and Their Music (Parallel Lives) (w/CD), by Daniel Felsenfeld. Amadeus Press, LLC (512 Newark Pompton Plains Tke., Pompton Plains, NJ 07444), 2005. 180 pp. $22.95. The lives of two of the twentieth century's greatest...

Moammar Gadhafi said in an unusual debate Friday it was time for his long-isolated nation to open up to the world and that one day Libya won't need him as leader. Still, he insisted that the ruling ideology he has entrenched here for three decades...

In the following response to Barber's “Cultural Conservatism and Democratic Education,” Boyers argues that the 1960s were not as revolutionary for universities as is commonly assumed, and that traditional figures studied in universities—such as Walt Whitman, George Eliot, John Stuart Mill, and Karl Marx—should not be considered irrelevant or archaic, and certainly not “dangerous.”

In the following response to Barber's “Cultural Conservatism and Democratic Education,” Nachman challenges Barber's assertion that truth is a reflection of individual interest.

In the following review, Clausen summarizes Barber's position in regard to Communitarians and multiculturalists and agrees that the communities formed by ethnic groups that multiculturalists encourage often espouse attitudes of intolerance and thus pose a threat to true democracy.