|
|
|
Cablecast and web streaming of program in series "Conversations with Harold Hudson Channer" Upcoming Cable Television/Web Show: For details of airing see bottom of page _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GUESTS: BETH LAMONT
Political and Social Activist Widow of Corliss Lamont &
Author / Publisher 
 
Author / Publisher:
"Lefties Are In Their Right Mind"
Maintainer of www.corliss-lamont.org & RONALD THOMAS
MNN Producer & Host of the Program: "Big Talk" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The program can be viewed in its entirety by clicking the you tube link below: - BETH LAMONT & RONALD THOMAS-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More about: BETH LAMONT Beth Lamont joins us to discuss her late husband’s legacy, her own work as a humanist activist, and her impressions concerning the ethics of humanism. Ms. Lamont is a feminist activist, humanist, and mother of eleven. In the 1970s, she became a Board Member of the American Humanist Association through its Chapter Assembly. Additionally, she has headed the Division of Humanist Extension, assuming this leadership role at the invitation of Edwin H. Wilson; created the Humanist Advocate Program which encouraged individuals to promote Humanism; created a television program called “Here & Now,” which has aired on Manhattan Cable since 1984; is a Humanist Chaplain having performed over 500 weddings; and has represented the American Humanist Association in its NGO capacity at the United Nations. Beth has recently self-published the book, Lefties Are In Their Right Minds which includes a re-introduction and fresh commentary to Corliss Lamont’s 1939 text, You Might Like Socialism! Dr. Corliss Lamont (1902-1995) was a 20th century American whose independent thinking challenged prevailing ideas in philosophy, economics, religion, patriotism, world peace and the exercise of our cherished civil liberties. Lamont was born to Wall Street wealth, yet he championed the cause of the working class, and was derided as a “Socialist” and a “traitor to his class”. His Humanist belief that humans have evolved without supernatural intervention and are responsible for their own survival on this planet caused traditionalists to label him a “godless atheist.” Dr. Lamont’s patriotic insistence that the United States maintain a productive relationship with the Soviet Union in the face of prevailing rabid anti-communist hysteria earned him the accusation by Senator Joseph McCarthy of being “un-American”. He contributed to the construction -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lefties Are In Their Right Minds
|
|
|
|
|
Lefties Are In Their Right Minds is also available in the form of a freely downloadable Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) file. This file is suitable for on-screen viewing as well as printing.
Download Lefties Are In Their Right Minds (PDF)
[460 pages - 9,608,301 bytes].
|
|
|
|
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Welcome to the Corliss Lamont Website!
Contents
The Philosophy of Humanism, Eighth Edition
Note: A Belorussian language translation of this Web page has been graciously provided by Paul Bukhovko and hosted at PC.DE.
The Life of Corliss Lamont
Corliss Lamont (1902-1995) is a 20th century American hero whose independent thinking challenged prevailing ideas in philosophy, economics, religion, patriotism, world peace and the exercise of our cherished civil liberties.
Corliss Lamont was born to Wall Street wealth, yet he championed the cause of the working class, and was derided as a "Socialist" and a "traitor to his class".
Corliss Lamont's Humanist belief that earthlings have evolved without supernatural intervention and are responsible for their own survival on this planet caused traditionalists to label him a "godless atheist".
Corliss Lamont's patriotic insistence that the United States maintain a productive relationship with the Soviet Union in the face of prevailing rabid anti-communist hysteria earned him the accusation by Senator Joseph McCarthy of being "un-American". [See Philip Wittenberg (ed.), The Lamont Case: History of a Congressional Investigation, Corliss Lamont and the McCarthy Hearings (New York: Horizon Press, 1957) for details.]
Corliss Lamont was a philosopher, author and poet who carried several landmark cases to the courts successfully, including a suit [381 U.S. 301 (1965)] against the United States Postmaster General which was taken to the U.S. Supreme Court. The high court's decision was in Dr. Lamont's favor.
He taught a course in Humanism at Columbia University. Upon his death, the Columbia Record had this to say about him. A tribute to his life was held at Columbia on September 18, 1995. He endowed a chair in Civil Liberties at Columbia Law School, currently occupied by Prof. Vincent A. Blasi. He contributed to the construction of the Corliss Lamont Rare Book Reading Room at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia University and helped to create, through donations of letters, papers, and works of art, the Julian Huxley, John Masefield, George Santayana, and Rockwell Kent collections held there. He also played a major role in the creation of the Spinoza Collection. The Corliss Lamont Papers reside in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Columbia University.
Located in the Corliss Lamont Room in the Class of 1945 Library, one of the Special Collections at Phillips Exeter Academy, is the John Masefield Collection, part of the Lamont Poets Collection. The Lamont Poetry Fund supports visiting poets and the Lamont Younger Poets Prize at Phillips Exeter.
Dr. Lamont provided a portion of the funding for The Santayana Edition, The Works of George Santayana, as published by The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England, and supported by The National Endowment for The Humanities, and others, currently hosted by the Institute for American Thought at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indiana.
During his lifetime he was honored with many awards, including the Gandhi Peace Award in 1981. He served on the Board of Directors of the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Urban League.
The Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University stands on a 125-acre estate in Palisades, N.Y. which was donated by his mother, Florence Lamont, who also endowed the Florence Corliss Lamont Professor of Divinity and Professor of Old Testament, Harvard University Divinity School, currently held by Paul D. Hanson, Ph.D. His father, Thomas W. Lamont, who was Chairman of J.P. Morgan, was a major donor toward the creation of the Lamont Library (history / main page) at Harvard.
New interest is sparked in the lifestance of Corliss Lamont because his Great Nephew Ned Lamont was the Democratic Nominee for U.S. Senate from the state of Connecticut in the 2006 election. Ned's Grandfather, Thomas S. Lamont and Corliss were brothers, sons of Florence Corliss and Thomas W. Lamont, a partner of J.P. Morgan.
Frederick Edwords, then Executive Director of the American Humanist Association, authored an excellent article for the July/August 1995 issue of the Humanist magazine on the life of Corliss Lamont entitled Requiem for a Freedom Fighter, which has been included on this Web site.
Below is a listing of Dr. Lamont's books. The last six were edited by him.
- The Philosophy of Humanism
- Lover's Credo: Poems of Love *
- The Illusion of Immortality *
- Freedom of Choice Affirmed *
- Freedom Is as Freedom Does: Civil Liberties in America *
- Yes To Life - Memoirs of Corliss Lamont *
- Remembering John Masefield *
- A Lifetime of Dissent **
- A Humanist Funeral Service *
- Voice in the Wilderness: Collected Essays of Fifty Years
- A Humanist Wedding Service *
- Soviet Civilization
- The Independent Mind: Essays of a Humanist Philosopher ***
- The Peoples of the Soviet Union
- You Might Like Socialism: A Way of Life for Modern Man ****
- Russia Day by Day Co-author (with Margaret I. Lamont)
- "Dear Corliss": Letters from Eminent Persons
- Collected Poems of John Reed
- Dialogue on John Dewey
- Dialogue on George Santayana
- The Trial of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn by the American Civil Liberties Union
- Man Answers Death
* The Corliss Lamont Bookshelf page, located on this Web site, contains additional information on these eight featured titles, seven of which are currently available for purchase from online booksellers.
** The full text of A Lifetime of Dissent is available for online reading on the Questia Web site at the following URL. The link opens in a new tab/window.
Read online:
http://www.questia.com/read/97767010
*** The full text of The Independent Mind: Essays of a Humanist Philosopher is available on the Internet Archive Web site via the links below. The book, which is part of the Universal Library, is offered in multiple formats including Adobe Acrobat PDF (Portable Document Format), DjVu, plain ASCII text, JPEG image files, TIFF image files, Abbyy FineReader XML, flip book, and a multi-page TIFF file. These links open in a new tab/window.
Details:
http://www.archive.org/details/independentminde011547mbp
Direct download of all available formats:
http://www.archive.org/download/independentminde011547mbp
The full text of The Independent Mind: Essays of a Humanist Philosopher is also available for online reading on the Questia Web site at the following URL.
Read online:
http://www.questia.com/read/6209016
**** The full text of You Might Like Socialism: A Way of Life for Modern Man is available on the Internet Archive Web site via the links below. The book, which is part of the American Libraries, is offered in multiple formats including PDF, DjVu, plain ASCII text, JPEG and JPEG 2000 image files, and flip book. These links open in a new tab/window.
Details:
http://www.archive.org/details/youmightlikesoci00lamorich
Direct download of all available formats:
http://www.archive.org/download/youmightlikesoci00lamorich
In late 2008, Beth K. Lamont began work on a new introduction to You Might Like Socialism: A Way of Life for Modern Man. This effort was completed in April 2009 and this new book, entitled Lefties Are In Their Right Minds, was published in a trade paperback edition by Half-Moon Foundation on May 18, 2009 and is now available for purchase from Amazon.com. More information about the book, including audio promos and news and press releases, can be found on the Lefties Are In Their Right Minds page.
The Philosophy of Humanism, Eighth Edition
The Eighth Edition of The Philosophy of Humanism (420 pages, illustrated and indexed, with Reference Notes and Selected Bibliography) has been published in trade paperback format by Humanist Press. We are pleased to offer an electronic text version for free downloading from this Web site.
For further information, follow the link to our download page.
The Eighth Edition of The Philosophy of Humanism is also available for purchase through Amazon.com®.
Lover's Credo: Poems of Love
The full text of the revised and re-issued 1994 edition of Lover's Credo, containing all 31 poems, is now available for viewing in HTML format on this Web site by following this link. A "no frames" version is available here.
Lover's Credo is also available for purchase from Amazon.com.
The Affirmative Ethics of Humanism
The Affirmative Ethics of Humanism, a magazine article by Corliss Lamont, in which the author stresses the joy of life and working for the good of the community, using reason and scientific method for the solution of ethical problems, is available here.
Pamphlets by Corliss Lamont
Over the course of more than a half-century, Corliss Lamont authored approximately three dozen pamphlets on a variety of subjects. Information about many of these pamphlets, including the well-known Basic Pamphlets series, as well as a downloadable PDF version of On Understanding Soviet Russia, can be found on the Pamphlets by Corliss Lamont page.
The Bill of Rights and the NECLC
One of Corliss Lamont's favorite organizations was the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee (NECLC), of which he was Chairman. On our Bill of Rights and NECLC page you'll find excerpts from their publication, Bill of Rights Journal, describing their activities over the years, starting with a statement of purpose and including descriptions of the organization's many civil liberties triumphs in the courts. You'll also be able to view the U.S. Bill of Rights and download a copy suitable for printing.
Bob Dylan and the NECLC
At its annual Bill of Rights Dinner on December 13, 1963, the NECLC presented its Tom Paine Award for recognition of distinguished service in the fight for civil liberty to singer/song writer Bob Dylan. You'll find more information about this, including Mr. Dylan's acceptance speech and the controversy it caused on our Bob Dylan and the NECLC page.
Multimedia Files
Below are links to four series of multimedia files — Corliss Lamont singing the old Irving Berlin show tune "A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody", five audio clips from a film shot by his grandson several years ago entitled "Corliss Lamont: Renegade Patriot", a MIDI song file, "Here And Now", complete with musical notation and lyrics, dedicated to Corliss Lamont, and four hours of raw, unedited video of a Civil Liberties Forum held at Columbia University Law School on April 5, 2002. This event, which featured a debate entitled "Must our Civil Liberties be Relinquished Under the Threat of Terrorism?", was conducted in honor of the centenary of the birth of Corliss Lamont.
- "A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody" [RealAudio, ASF, AIFF, AU, WAV, MP2 and MP3]
- "Corliss Lamont: Renegade Patriot" [RealAudio and MP3]
- "Here And Now", A Humanist Song [MIDI]
The sound track to "Corliss Lamont: Renegade Patriot" is also available in DSP Group TrueSpeech streaming audio format.
- "Corliss Lamont: Renegade Patriot" [TrueSpeech]
A six minute video clip from the film is available for viewing in streaming RealNetworks RealVideo and Microsoft ASF (Advanced Streaming Format) file formats, as well as a downloadable MPEG-1 System Stream MPG file.
- "Corliss Lamont: Renegade Patriot" [RealVideo and MPEG-1]
- "Corliss Lamont: Renegade Patriot" [ASF]
The video of the "Must our Civil Liberties be Relinquished Under the Threat of Terrorism?" debate is available in the form of four one-hour segments in both Flash Video (FLV) and in Sony PSP-compatible and Apple QuickTime-compatible MPEG-4 (MP4) formats.
- Corliss Lamont Centenary Civil Liberties Forum [Flash Video and MPEG-4]
Adobe Flash Video of Corliss Lamont and Dr. Herbert A. Tonne discussing the subject of immortality, taken from a 1986 New York public access cable television show.
- Corliss Lamont and Herbert Tonne [Flash Video]
Recently added: Adobe Flash Video of Corliss Lamont and Pete Seeger, taken from an unpublished 1992 film shot by Jonathan Heap, filmmaker and grandson of Corliss Lamont.
- Corliss Lamont and Pete Seeger [Flash Video]
Suggested Sites to Visit
Humanist Society of Metropolitan New York *
- The Corliss Lamont Chapter of the American Humanist Association
* Site sponsored by Half-Moon Foundation, Inc.
Direct Access
Select any Web page on the corliss-lamont.org domain:
Contact Information
Postal mail:
Half-Moon Foundation, Inc.
116 Hawkes Avenue
Ossining, NY 10562-2006 USA
Contributions to the Half-Moon Foundation to help sustain and expand this Web site are greatly appreciated and are fully tax deductible. Half-Moon Foundation, Inc. is a tax-exempt non-profit organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code. We are offering information only and are not providing goods or services in exchange for your contribution.
Contributions can be made in the form of a check or money order payable to Half-Moon Foundation, Inc. and sent to the postal mailing address given above, or you can quickly, easily, safely, and securely use your American Express, Discover, MasterCard, or Visa credit card, or an existing or new PayPal account, by clicking on the PayPal button below. Note that if you intend to donate using a credit or debit card, there's no need to have, or to set up, a PayPal account.
Half-Moon Foundation, Inc. is a Verified Member of PayPal.
Thank you!
Internet e-mail:
info@corliss-lamont.orgPlease report any technical problems with this site to webmaster@corliss-lamont.org.
We support the Blue Ribbon Campaign for online freedom of speech, press and association. Please visit the Electronic Frontier Foundation for additional information on free speech and civil rights in the on-line world.
Copyright © 1997-2010 by Half-Moon Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved.
Trademarks and service marks shown are the property of their respective owners and are used for informational and identification purposes only and without intent to infringe.
This site contains links to third party sites. These links will let you leave the Corliss Lamont Website. The linked sites are not under the control of Half-Moon Foundation, Inc. and Half-Moon Foundation, Inc. is not responsible for the contents of any linked site or any link contained in a linked site. Half-Moon Foundation, Inc. is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement of the site by Half-Moon Foundation, Inc.
This page last revised: December 14, 2010.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------TUESDAY JANUARY 4, 2011
11:00 - 11:58 AM / (NYC Time)
Channel 34 of the Time/Warner & Channel 83 of the
RCN
Cable Television Systems in Manhattan, New York.
The Program can now be viewed on the
internet at time of cable casting at
WWW.MNN.ORG
NOTE: You
must adjust viewing to reflect NYC time & click on "WATCH MNN 1" at site
|
241 West 36th StreetNew York,N.Y. 10018 Phone: 212-695-6351 E-Mail: HHC@NYC.RR.COM
|
