Walter Donway
CE– CE
Nationality: American
Historical Period: The 20th Century and Beyond
Walter Donway has published more than a dozen books, available on Amazon, including Not Half Free:The Myth that America is Capitalist and Media Wars (co-authored with Vinay Kolhatkar).He was an executive at two New York City foundations and founding editor of Cerebrum: The Dana Forum on Brain Science. His latest novel, Retaking College Hill, is a political thriller about the battle against postmodernism on an Ivy League campus.
In The Reading Room:
- What “Irish Enlightenment”? The Case of John Toland ()
- The Russian Enlightenment and Its “Absolutist” Champions ()
- Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe “Gets Religion” ()
- Daniel Defoe: Religious Liberty in An Age of Militant Sectarianism ()
- The “Pamphlet Wars” Climax in the American Revolution and Ratification Debate ()
- Tracing Turkey’s Creation to French Enlightenment’s Influence ()
- Kemal Atatürk Founds a Twentieth-century Islamic Nation Rooted in Enlightenment Ideas ()
- Robert Burns and the Theory of Moral Sentiments ()
- The Enlightenment of Robert Burns ()
- Fukuzawa Yukichi: The Man Who Was “Civilization and Enlightenment” in Japan ()
- Walt Whitman: Poet of American Democratic Individualism ()
- Henry Maine’s “Society of Status” Under Feudalism ()
- William Blake: Romantic Poet and Enlightenment Man? ()
- William Blake, the Romantic Revolution, and Liberty ()
- The Poet as Intellectual: How the Romantics Took on Thomas Malthus ()
- Ethan Allen, Individualism, and Deism ()
- Ethan Allen: Yankee Extraordinaire ()
- Shelley's “Ode to Liberty” Infuriated Reviewers—but Made J. S. Mill Weep ()