Modern Age articles from January 2003

Modern Age archives from January 2003

Like Pilate's wife.(Poem)
January 1, 2003... like Pilate's wife the scholars, the experts, the academic clerics, the authorities on Q, like Pilate's wife they send word to us: "Have nothing to do with that upright man."

The absence of a culture of shame.
January 1, 2003... DEFINITION: Shame. 1.1. The painful emotion arising from the consciousness of something dishonouring, ridiculous, or indecorous in one's own conduct or circumstances (or in those of others whose honour or disgrace one regards as one's own), or...

Current problems of European democracy.
January 1, 2003... It is a privilege to introduce the work of Pierre Manent to the readers of Modem Age. Manent is one of the outstanding political philosophers writing in Europe today. Born in 1949, he was educated at the Ecole Normale Superieure and for several...

I. Emerson and us. (Bicentennial Essays: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)).
January 1, 2003... EMERSON TELLS US that truth is "such a flyaway, such a slyboots, so untransportable and unbarrelable a commodity, that it is as bad to catch as light."' However things may be with truth, it is so with Emerson's thought. What he says is often...

II. The kaleidoscopic Emerson. (Bicentennial Essays: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)).(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
January 1, 2003... JUST WHEN INTEREST in Emerson seems to wane, he rises like the proverbial phoenix. In the 1990's, at least two books (not to mention the ceaseless flow of articles and doctoral dissertations) concerning Emerson were published: Robert D....

I. Theodore Maynard (1890-1956): a historian of American Catholicism. (Religious Historians, East and West).
January 1, 2003... THEODORE MAYNARD had a long career as a poet, literary critic, and historian in England, where he was raised, and in the United States, where he lived after 1920. Although he considered himself primarily a poet, during his lifetime Maynard was...

II. Georges Vasilievich Florovsky (1893-1979): Russian intellectual historian and orthodox theologian. (Religious Historians, East and West).
January 1, 2003... Beyond East and West FOR MANY READERS of Modern Age, the Very Reverend Georges Vasilievich Florovsky (1893-1979)may not be a household name, and yet his singular achievement and reputation as an influential Russian philosopher and...

Appreciating Animal Farm in the new millennium.
January 1, 2003... WITH THE APPROACH of the centennial of George Orwell's birth in June 2003, much attention is already turning to reassessments of his life and to the ongoing relevance in the new millennium of his masterwork, Nineteen Eighly-Four (1949). (1)...

The faithful heart. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Where No Flag Flies: Donald Davidson and the Southern Resistance, by Mark Royden Winchell, Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 2000. 386 pp. DONALD DAVIDSON, who died in 1968, is now an almost forgotten figure in American...

The perils of immigration. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization, by Patrick J. Buchanan, New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2002. IN THE WAKE OF THE terrorist attacks on the World...

Two mid-century critics. (Comment).
January 1, 2003... PLACING THESE TWO BOOKS side by side, you see the two black-and-white photographs. In each, a man holds a lighted cigarette. On the dust jacket of Allen Tate's Essays of Four Decades, the poet, critic, novelist, Southern Agrarian rests his...