Recently added articles from Modern Age:
Conservatism in Winter.
Jan 01, 2009; Young, R.V. ... 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; Horowitz, Irving Louis ... 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; Bertonneau, Thomas F. ... "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; Shiffman, Mark ... 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; Kenneally, Ivan ... 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; Hancock, Ralph C. ... " ... 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 ...
The logos in Western thought.(A SYMPOSIUM ON REMI BRAGUE'S THE LAW OF GOD)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2009; Lawler, Peter Augustine ... The Law of God's stunning display of erudition makes many fundamental contributions to illuminating for us the history of human reflection on God, Being, human beings, morality, and politics. My purpose here is limited to employing Brague's wisdom to highlight the philosophical ...
The politics of nuclear power.(Viewpoint essay)
Jan 01, 2009; Hodgson, P.E. ... The last three articles have shown some of the difficulties of understanding the advantages and disadvantages of this new source of power in order to decide whether it is the best way to secure our future. Having at least provisionally decided what needs to be done, one is faced with the ...
On a sculpture by Herbert Adams.(Poem)
Jan 01, 2009; Wilson, James Matthew ... 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; Clark, William Bedford ... <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; McAllister, Ted V. ... 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; Barr, Stephen M. ... 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; Crowe, Ian ... 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; Ferns, John ... 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; Gutzman, Kevin R.C. ... 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; Stove, R.J. ... 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 ...
Who Are These People?(Why I Turned Right: Leading Baby Boom Conservatives Chronicle Their Political Journeys)(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; Russello, Gerald J. ... Why I Turned Right: Leading Baby Boom Conservatives Chronicle Their Political Journeys, edited by Mary Eberstadt (New York: Threshold Editions, 2008) Perhaps because of their beleaguered status for much of the postwar period, conservatives have had a special penchant for the ...
Days like wine.(DOCUMENTATION)(Wurzburg, Germany)(Personal account)
Jan 01, 2009; Cross, Richard ... 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 ...
