Recently added articles from Modern Age:
Conservatism in Winter.
Jan 01, 2009; ... When the previous issue of Modern Age was being readied for the press, the elections of 2008 were yet to be decided. As I write this, we approach the presidential inauguration of a man who is arguably the most radical leftist ever to have held the office. The Winter 2009 issue of the ...
Mass, class, and audience: beyond the Glenn Gould problem.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... The critical point of crossover between sociological and musicological forms of analysis is audience. Earlier varieties of analysis that dwelt on composers, performers, and compositions have given way to changes in the mode and size of audience participation. Music as an object for ...
Karen Blixen and the Apocalypse of Man: a Voegelinian meditation.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... "The Age of Reason has received its name, not because it was particularly reasonable, but because the thinkers of the eighteenth century believed to have found in Reason, capitalized, the substitute for divine order." --Eric Voegelin, "Necessary Moral Bases for Communication in ...
The divine law and the modern project.(A SYMPOSIUM ON REMI BRAGUE'S THE LAW OF GOD)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... In his most recently translated book, Remi Brague displays his usual captivating breadth of erudition--from Egyptian papyrology and Icelandic ecclesiastical history, to the thought of Leo Strauss and Hans Urs von Balthasar, to The Code of the Woosters and Tintin in America. His scholarly ...
Reason, revelation, and American theocracy rightly understood.(A SYMPOSIUM ON REMI BRAGUE'S THE LAW OF GOD)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Tocqueville famously diagnosed American consciousness as deeply affected by an untutored Cartesianism; in his view, our intellectual debt to Descartes was undiminished by our ignorance of his bequest. Likewise, many have surprisingly judged the contemporary American political scene as ...
Law and counsel.(A SYMPOSIUM ON REMI BRAGUE'S THE LAW OF GOD)
Jan 01, 2009; ... " ... the untrue assumption that man as man is thinkable as a being that lacks awareness of sacred restraints ..." --Leo Strauss, On Tyranny Remi Brague undertakes no less than to sort out the relationship between the notion of "divinity" and that of "law." He pursues ...
On a sculpture by Herbert Adams.(Poem)
Jan 01, 2009; ... American Beauty Exhibition, National Gallery, Dublin, 2002 <Pre>I The precise anger in your eyes, last night, Seemed for the first time and, perhaps, the last, To cut through every fold of charm, and sight In me the wrinkled cloths and ragged past ....
Abortions.(Poem)
Jan 01, 2009; ... <Pre> After the first, Kate dreamed quite frequently That a gutted kitten, eyeless and gray, Revolved on a cracked lazy-susan's tray And mewed from hunger. It had no belly. The dream dispersed with the shifting weather. She met Mark at a Green Party rally. On her laptop, she'd ...
Of Ideas and Politics: The Rich Promise of History De-Centered.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... The Conservative Ascendancy: How the GOP Right Made Political History by Donald Critchlow (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007) Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s, ed. Bruce J. Schulman and Julian E. Zelizer (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University ...
Evolution without Tears.(The Evolution Controversy: A Survey of Competing Theories)(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... The Evolution Controversy: A Survey of Competing Theories by Thomas B. Fowler and Daniel Kuebler (Ada, MI: Baker Academic, 2007) The last twenty years have seen an intensifying of the evolution wars in the United States. The passion in these conflicts comes mainly from two ...
A Definitive Burke.(Edmund Burke, vol. 2: 1784-1797)(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Edmund Burke. Volume II: 1784-1797 by F. P. Lock (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005) The two volumes of F.P. Lock's biography of Edmund Burke span more than one thousand pages and, by the author's own calculation, over twenty years of research. In structure, method, and ...
"Necessary For These Times".(The Homilies Appointed To Be Read In Churches)(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... The Homilies Appointed To Be Read In Churches, revised and introduced by Ian Robinson (Bishopstone, Herf., UK: Brynmill Press and Preservation Press of the Prayer Book Society USA, 2006) What could be a better gift from an independent editor-publisher than to restore to a ...
The Disappearance of Constitutionalism.(The Age of Strict Construction: A History of the Growth of Federal Power, 1789-1861)(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... The Age of Strict Construction: A History of the Growth of Federal Power, 1789-1861 by Peter Zavodnyik (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2007) Peter Zavodnyik's new history of the early Republic and antebellum America tells the tale from a distinctive point ...
Ah, Wilderness.(Sibelius)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Sibelius by Andrew Barnett (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007) Music lovers today have certain consolations not available three decades ago, even if we do have to share the planet with Britney Spears and 50 Cent. For one thing, we need no longer feel remotely apologetic ...
Days like wine.(DOCUMENTATION)(Wurzburg, Germany)(Personal account)
Jan 01, 2009; ... The Frankfurter Kreuz, the most heavily trafficked reef-knot of expressways in Europe, has a vertical dimension as well: flights in and out of the continent's busiest airport traverse the space a few hundred meters overhead. On a June morning in 1971, Christa and I threaded our way through ...
Conservatism and the political order.(Essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... As we prepare this final issue of the 2008 volume of Modern Age for the press, a long, arduous, and often rather bizarre presidential campaign is drawing to a close, and its outcome will be known by the time the issue is in print. No matter which slate of candidates wins, the result would ...
Fighting Bob vs. Silent Cal: the conservative tradition from La Follette to Taft and beyond.(Essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Soon after becoming president in 1981, Ronald Reagan surprised the press by removing the hallowed portrait of Harry Truman from the wall of the White House Cabinet Room and replacing it with one of Calvin Coolidge. The Great Communicator's speaking skills and personal charisma far ...
Mark Royden Winchell.(In memoriam)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Those of us who valued Mark Winchell's friendship and good company share in the grief of his wife and two sons. We too will miss him. A victim of cancer at the age of fifty-nine, he was one of those people who should live to be a hundred, not only because of his warmth and wit and enormous ...
In epitaph.(Poem)(Brief article)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Leaning through silence to a dead man's mind --Dick Davis Rev. 21:23 <Pre> 1. Biographer: A Life He sits amid the facts he's gathered in From interviews, books, archives, scattered prose Mastered at last so recollection's pen Can resurrect the dead by what he ...
Human freedom and the limitations of scientific determinism.(Essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Recent developments in science have stimulated the centuries-old debate between proponents of determinism and those who defend human freedom. Determinism implies that every event, including every human action, is causally necessitated by prior events, so that no person could have acted ...