Modern Age articles

Recent articles from Modern Age

The divine law and the modern project.(A SYMPOSIUM ON REMI BRAGUE'S THE LAW OF GOD)(Critical essay)
January 1, 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)
January 1, 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...

On a sculpture by Herbert Adams.(Poem)
January 1, 2009... American Beauty Exhibition, National Gallery, Dublin, 2002 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. "For too...

Abortions.(Poem)
January 1, 2009... 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 playfully...

Of Ideas and Politics: The Rich Promise of History De-Centered.(Book review)
January 1, 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 Press, 2008)...