freedom

Russia is searching for the ways of establishing civil society. One of them is to raise legal culture. This gives an opportunity to achieve a real guarantee of rights and liberties of a person as the highest value. The low level of legal conscience leads to legal nihilism, to creating the ground for lawlessness which sometimes has the character of national calamity causing great damage to the society. This creates many contradictions, eliminates the possibility of dialogue of different world views.

In the present paper the author explores Henry Robinson Luce’s views on law and politics. Henry Robinson Luce is the prominent figure in the middle century American media industry, whose influence on the process of public opinion making was great. As the basic source for the paper writing were used H.R.Luce’s public speeches and publicist papers.