Modern Age articles from January 1 2009

Modern Age archives from January 1 2009

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

Evolution without Tears.(The Evolution Controversy: A Survey of Competing Theories)(Book review)
January 1, 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...

A Definitive Burke.(Edmund Burke, vol. 2: 1784-1797)(Book review)
January 1, 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...

"Necessary For These Times".(The Homilies Appointed To Be Read In Churches)(Book review)
January 1, 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...

The Disappearance of Constitutionalism.(The Age of Strict Construction: A History of the Growth of Federal Power, 1789-1861)(Book review)
January 1, 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...

Ah, Wilderness.(Sibelius)(Critical essay)
January 1, 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...

Days like wine.(DOCUMENTATION)(Wurzburg, Germany)(Personal account)
January 1, 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...