Modern Age articles from June 2008

Modern Age archives from June 2008

The range and originality of conservative reflection.(Editorial)
June 22, 2008... A consideration of the contents of this issue of Modern Age brings to mind the rich variety of theme and profundity of insight available to thinkers who espouse a conservative perspective. We present an account of a Jewish mystic who found the...

Etty Hillesum and the light of faith: A Voegelinian Analysis.(Eric Voegelin)(Essay)
June 22, 2008... Throughout history, the symbol "God" has been used or rather misused for human purposes and for obscure immanent and ideological projects, (1) till the moment came that even "God" was announced "dead." Philosopher and postmodermsm's (2)...

The diplomacy of conservatism and the conservatism of diplomacy.(Essay)
June 22, 2008... Conservatism is often, rightly, associated with the patriotism and public spirit that lead to military valor and heroism. It lays great stress on the groundedness of human existence, the situating of individual wellbeing in the historical and...

"Between the tiger's paws": Scotland, Czechoslovakia, and the poetry of Edwin Muir.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2008... In the course of the past three decades, the poetry of Edwin Muir (1887-1959) has fallen into deep neglect, especially on this side of the Atlantic. Even during his lifetime Muir was better known as a critic and translator--he and his wife,...

The poverty of the "new philosophy".(Essay)
June 22, 2008... In the midst of intense anti-American sentiments prevailing in France and throughout much of Europe early in 2006, a book by Bernard-Henri Levy, American Vertigo (Random House), made it to bookstores all across the United States. It was...

Nuclear power and the energy crisis.(Essay)
June 22, 2008... The previous article in this series drew attention to the energy crisis that faces the world today. Energy is essential to maintain and increase our standards of living. The demand for it is also increasing due to the world's rising population....

The ballad rode into town.(Poem)
June 22, 2008... The ballad rode into town one day, wearing his deadly gun, and his Mexican spurs jingled along in the heat of the mid-day sun. He wore his blacks, he wore his boots, he wore a Colt on his hip, with a re-bored barrel, its trigger...

Vietnam memorial.(Poem)(Brief article)
June 22, 2008... Cold names on a wall, indistinguishable at a distance, three men dazed, three women mourning-- this is our memorial: pity for broken things. The viewers, the voyeurs, shamble through the grounds, heads down, eyes averted,...

Skyscraper at delphi.(Poem)(Brief article)
June 22, 2008... The oracle, it seems, is out of town; The vinyl tripod where she sat in state Stands vacant on the twenty-second floor. Still, we are safe... and at a later date We may remember what we came here for. (And meanwhile, the dull stars...

After thirty years: an anniversary poem.(Poem)(Brief article)
June 22, 2008... Week's end: browning our penitential trout, My wife hums and weaves to "The Sloop John B." In tripping back the past, what does she see? Which boys? What beach? I take the chilled wine out, Return her smile. Marriage is mystery...

Russell Kirk redivivus.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Russell Kirk: A Critical Biography of a Conservative Mind by James E. Person, Jr. (Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1999). 249 pp. Russell Kirk and the Age of Ideology by W. Wesley McDonald. (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2004). 243...

Romanticism restrained.(The Triumph of Imperfection: The Silver Age of Sociocultural Moderation in Europe, 1815-1848)(Book review)
June 22, 2008... The Triumph of Imperfection: The Silver Age of Sociocultural Moderation in Europe, 1815-1848 by Virgil Nemoianu (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press. 2006). 258 pp. While most cultural historians depict the period between 1815...

Robert Frost: philosopher-poet.(Robert Frost: The Poet as Philosopher)(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Robert Frost: The Poet as Philosopher by Peter J. Stanlis. Foreword by Timothy Steele (Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2007). 452 pp. Probably no other American poet has suffered more misunderstanding at the hands of his readers, admirers and...

The way they argue now.(The Way We Argue Now: A Study in the Cultures of Theory )(Book review)
June 22, 2008... The Way We Argue Now: A Study in the Cultures of Theory by Amanda Anderson, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006). 202 pp. It's hard out there for a liberal literary critic, so, as an old-fashioned liberal who went to graduate...

Shakespeare and mimesis.('A New Mimesis: Shakespeare and the Representation of Reality', 'Shakespeare the Thinker')(Book review)
June 22, 2008... A New Mimesis: Shakespeare and the Representation of Reality by A. D. Nuttall (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007). 209 pp. Shakespeare the Thinker by A. D. Nuttall (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007). 428 pp. ...

A Cousin worthy of visiting.(Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life)(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life by Hugh Brogan (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006). 724 pp. Having written on Tocqueville, modern France, and the history of the United States for almost three decades, Hugh Brogan comes well...

The start of something big.(The Jamestown Project)(Book review)
June 22, 2008... The Jamestown Project by Karen Ordahl Kupperman (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007). "Discovery'' has been a term and a process more subject to revision than most in recent decades. It was not Christopher Columbus who...