“The 50 years since The Crisis of Our Age have only reinforced the accuracy of his analysis.” (Harold O. J. Brown on Sorokin)

 

Harold O. J. Brown, ‘Regression and Renewal’ – Chronicles, January 1992

 

Posted here (downloadable Word document above):

Harold O. J. Brown

“Regression and Renewal”

Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture

January 1, 1992

Harold O. J. Brown (1933-2007) was a professor of theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. He graduated from Harvard College in 1953 and earned two degrees from Harvard Divinity School and a Ph.D. from Harvard University.

 

— posted by Roger W. Smith

     July 2022

 

The Crisis of Our Age, paperback edition

 

 

 

review of “The Crisis of Our Age”; The Thomist 1942

 

review of ‘The Crisis of Our Age’ – The Thomist, July 1942

 

Posted here (above) as a downloadable PDF file is a review of The Crisis of Our Age by Pitirim A. Sorokin:

The Crisis of Our Age by Pitirim A. Sorokin (review)

By Louis A. Ryan

The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review

Volume 4, Number 3 (July 1942), pp. 523-533

It is a very thorough and thoughtful as well as discerning review, and I thought it worth posting.

 

— Roger W. Smith

     June 2018

“Almost Any Catastrophe Would Fit Into Harvard Professor’s Thesis”

 

‘almost any catastrophe would fit into Harvard’ prof’s thesis’ – Balt Sun 10-2-1935

 

He Told Us So

Almost Any Catastrophe Would Fit Into Harvard Professor’s Thesis

By U. P. Ives

The Baltimore Sun, October 2, 1939, pg. 8

 

Full article posted above as a downloadable PDF file.

 

— posted by Roger W. Smith

     March 2018

“Creative Calamity” (editorial re Sorokin)

 

‘Creative Calamnity’ (editorial) – Wash Post 11-2-1942

 

posted here (above) as a PDF file:

“Creative Calamity” (editorial), The Washington Post, November 2, 1942, pg. 10

It discusses Sorokin’s views with reference to his The Crisis of Our Age and Man and Society in Calamity.

 

— posted by Roger W. Smith

     March 2018

Pitirim A. Sorokin, foreword and preface to “The Crisis of Our Age”

 

foreword & preface to The Crisis of Our Age

 

Pitirim A. Sorokin, foreword and preface to The Crisis of Our Age (paperback edition; New York: E. P. Dutton, n.d.)

downloadable PDF file attached

 

— posted by Roger W. Smith

     January 2018