Modern Age articles from June 2006

Modern Age archives from June 2006

Continuum.(Poem)
June 22, 2006... The clock goes off. Lying in the black, Somehow you sense that you've been double-crossed, Condemned, trapped within the cul-de-sac Of recurring endless time, completely lost. The clock goes off. You startle yourself awake, Maybe it...

Restoring the meaning of conservatism: final reflections.
June 22, 2006... T.H. PICKETT's following essay on "War, Power, and Supremacy" further develops the urgent need stressed in the preceding three issues of Modern Age, "Restoring the Meaning of Conservatism." This need becomes even greater as the debate...

War, power, and supremacy: a conservative interpretation.
June 22, 2006... At the zenith of our commitments we were at the nadir of our precautions.... --WALTER LIPPMANN, U. S. Foreign Policy: Shield of the Republic (1943) IN HIS WARTIME STUDY of American foreign policy, Walter Lippmann remarked on the...

The secret of Straussianism.
June 22, 2006... DURING THE LATE 1940s and into the 1950s, as Anglo-American analytic philosophy came to dominate much of the academy and seemed to chase religion and ethics out of the philosophy curriculum, political philosophy as a discipline witnessed a...

The conservative moral philosophy of Scheler and Kolnai.(Max Scheler, Aurel Kolnai )
June 22, 2006... EDMUND HUSSERL was the source of the principal philosophical movement of the twentieth century: phenomenology. The most important continental European philosophers of the century just past were all linked to the phenomenological movement to...

Orwell and Catholicism.(George Orwell)
June 22, 2006... GEORGE ORWELL ENJOYED RUMINATING in print over how a writer's social and political beliefs seem to move beneath what he writes like an underground stream. One of the twentieth century's greatest essayists in English, he was extremely sensitive...

The Trilling family "romance": report of a psychoanalytic autopsy.
June 22, 2006... I IN 1999, I edited a book addressing the critical legacy of Lionel Trilling. The volume was entitled Lionel Trilling and the Critics: Opposing Selves, with the sub-title representing a nod both to Trilling's own essay collection, The...

Mysticism, political philosophy, and play.
June 22, 2006... Spiritualism seems to me absolutely right on all its mystical side. The supernatural part of it seems to me quite natural. The incredible part of it seems to me obviously true. But I think it so far dangerous or unsatisfactory that it is in...

The world of Michael Oakeshott.(The Philosophy of Michael Oakeshott)(In Defence of Modernity: Vision and Philosophy in Michael Oakeshott)(The Limits of Political Theory: Oakeshott's Philosophy of Civil Association)(The Intellectual Legacy of Michael Oakeshott)(Michael Oakeshott: An Introduction)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... The Philosophy of Michael Oakeshott, by Terry Nardin, University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001. 241 pp. In Defence of Modernity: Vision and Philosophy in Michael Oakeshott, by Efraim Podoksik, Exeter, UK: Imprint Academic,...

Our friend Mr. Darwin?(Darwinian Conservatism)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Darwinian Conservatism, by Larry Arnhart, Exeter, UK: Imprint Academic, 2005. 156 pp. DARWINIAN CONSERVATIVES, such as Larry Arnhart, hold that it's inevitable and good that we're stuck with our natures. We are, for example, inescapably...

Betraying conservative principles.(Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy, by Bruce Bartlett, New York, Doubleday, 2006. 310 pp. BRUCE BARTLETT is widely known in conservative circles principally through his syndicated column which...

The English spring of Catholicism.(The Third Spring: G.K. Chesterton, Graham Greene, Christopher Dawson, and David Jones)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... The Third Spring: G.K. Chesterton, Graham Greene, Christopher Dawson, and David Jones, by Adam Schwartz, Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2005. 431 pp. THIS IS A REMARKABLE, indeed a staggering book. Each of the...

Unpersuaded.(Jane Austen and the Enlightenment)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Jane Austen and the Enlightenment, by Peter Knox-Shaw, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xi + 275pp. "SHE IS THE PARTISAN of virtue alone." (1) With those sonorous words Alasdair MacIntyre dismissed Marilyn Butler's attempt to...

The moral economy of meritocracy.(Column)
June 22, 2006... MICHAEL YOUNG, in his new introduction to The Rise of the Meritocracy (1994 [1958]), that work upon which much of his reputation rests, asserts with great clarity the nature of his position. "The argument of the book is that if the soil creates...