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Article: Paul Elmer More: America's Reactionary.(Conservative Minds Revisited)(literary critic, educator and philosopher)(was associated with the New Humanism movement)
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- Modern Age
- Article date:
- September 22, 2003
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LONG AGO, THE NATION HAD a conservative editor. Paul Elmer More edited the already venerable magazine for five years just before the First World War. On joining The Nation, More was already an entrenched conservative; indeed, he preferred the term "reactionary." While at the magazine, he wrote 600 articles. At his departure, he was well along the path that would lead him at last to Christianity. Perhaps if Henry Adams had forgone France, he would have come up with a title such as "The Virgin and the Dynamo" for an essay on America's pre-eminent progressive magazine and its Paul Elmer More.
More occupies a unique place in The Conservative Mind. He was as ...