Modern Age articles from June 2007

Modern Age archives from June 2007

Midnight Sun.(Poem)
June 22, 2007... For six months I have ruled the golden sky O'er the North Pole, where night's as bright as day. My yellow tresses tumbled in July Down Ellesmere Island into Baffin Bay. My unshorn locks grow longer. Their beauty Enrages Philistines,...

Modern Age as a conservative review, 1957-2007.(Essay)
June 22, 2007... THE FIRST ISSUE of Modern Age appeared in the Summer of 1957 under the editorship of the late Russell Kirk, man of letters extraordinaire. The data may now seem to be long ago and far away, but when one reads anew his "Apology for a New Review"...

Why I am a conservative: a symposium.
June 22, 2007... "To be a conservative, then, is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the...

Gerhart Niemeyer: his principles of conservatism.(RECONSIDERATION)
June 22, 2007... IN THIS YEAR marking the hundredth anniversary of his birth, it is appropriate to reconsider the contributions of Gerhart Niemeyer (1907-1997) to political theory in general and the American conservative movement in particular, and it is...

The Israeli-Palestinian situation.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2007... Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, by Jimmy Carter, New York and London: Simon and Schuster, 2006. 264 pp. PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER'S twenty-first book is a courageous, compassionate, and above all objective study of the Israeli-Palestinian...

A young scholar's encounter with Russell Kirk.(COMMENTS)
June 22, 2007... I FIRST MET RUSSELL AMOS KIRK in 1984, as a Ph.D. student at the University of Virginia. He had cheerfully consented to an interview about the history of American conservatism in the 1950s and 1960s generally and about George Orwell's Nineteen...

"I know more than I can tell": the insights of Michael Polanyi.(Biography)
June 22, 2007... "I KNOW MORE THAN I CAN TELL" is the epigrammatic expression of a philosopher who, arguably more profoundly than any other, has challenged not only modern but also post-modern understandings of human knowing. Yet, strangely--some thirty years...

Secession and American federalism.(Essay)
June 22, 2007... THE BEGINNING OF THE twenty-first century saw a mostly unremarked development of considerable significance: for the first time since the founding of the Confederate States of America, the United States once again had an extensive secessionist...

The ideology of repudiation in higher education.(Essay)
June 22, 2007... IN ALIEN POWERS: The Pure Theory of Ideology, Kenneth Minogue provides a compelling account of the manner in which ideology has come to pervade our culture. Pioneered by Marx in his grand fiction of economic determinism, the "pure theory of...

Archiving as the last conservation.(Essay)
June 22, 2007... THE ART HISTORIAN Charles Merewether, in an introduction to The Archive, informs us that "in the modern era, the archive--official or personal--has become the most significant means by which historical knowledge and memory are collected, stored...