Modern Age articles from March 2006

Modern Age archives from March 2006

School and society: a conservative perspective.
March 22, 2006... Happy, if learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, and not aspired to be the master! --EDMUND BURKE THE CONTINUING CRISIS in public education also sees a continuing pattern of reform...

The patriotism of a conservative.
March 22, 2006... Editor's Note: The theme of "Restoring the Meaning of Conservatism" was first announced in the Summer 2005 issue of Modern Age. The Fall 2005 issue featured Professor George W. Carey's "The Future of Conservatism," which has distinctly engaged...

The fragility of democracy.
March 22, 2006... I It is reported that as the delegates to the Constitutional Convention trudged out of Independence Hall in Philadelphia on September 17, 1787, an anxious person in the crowd inquired of Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got,...

The dangerous irrelevance of recent theory.
March 22, 2006... IN HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN'S "The Emperor's New Clothes," two con artists swindle the emperor and his court into believing in the existence of magical clothes that will reveal the incompetence or the stupidity of anyone unable to appreciate...

Viacheslav Ivanov: culture and memory.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2006... IN 1920, AFTER A HARSH WINTER, Viacheslav Ivanov found a temporary refuge in a sanatorium for imperiled writers in Moscow. During June and July he shared a room with his old friend, the cultural historian Mikhail Gershenzon. Inevitably, their...

Joseph Schwartz: man of faith and letters.(GREAT TEACHERS IN OUR LIVES)
March 22, 2006... FROM THE VERY FIRST TIME I heard Professor Joseph Schwartz speak--in an address to the new English Teaching Assistants (of which I was one) at Marquette University in August of 1980--I knew that I had encountered a rare teacher. Challenging us...

White Light.(Poem)
March 22, 2006... As Winter passes through the glass of Time, Its whiteness separates into a band Of colors. Red tulips, bronze jonquils climb, With violets and bluebells, on green land. Cherry trees, blossoming as white as snow, Blush. Indigo lilacs...

The Jesuits and political power.(Jesuit Political Thought: The Society of Jesus and the State, c. 1540-1630)(The Jesuits and the Thirty Years War: Kings, Courts, and Confessors)(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Jesuit Political Thought: The Society of Jesus and the State, c. 1540-1630, by Harro Hopfl, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xii + 406 pp. The Jesuits and the Thirty Years War: Kings, Courts, and Confessors, by Robert Bireley,...

"Who are we?".(My Correct Views on Everything)(Book review)
March 22, 2006... My Correct Views on Everything, by Leszek Kolakowski; edited by Zbigniew Janowski, South Bend, Ind.: St. Augustine's Press, 2005. viii + 284 pp. LESZEK KOLAKOWSKI is among the most prominent political and religious thinkers of our time....

Returning to the sacramental world.(Eudora Welty and Walker Percy: The Concept of Home in Their Lives and Literature)(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Eudora Welty and Walker Percy: The Concept of Home in Their Lives and Literature, by Marion Montgomery, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland and Company, 2004. v + 214 pp. MONTGOMERY'S BOOKS, which are not strictly literary criticism, incorporate a...

The quintessential founder.(John Witherspoon and the Founding of the American Republic)(Book review)
March 22, 2006... John Witherspoon and the Founding of the American Republic, by Jeffry H. Morrison, Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. 220 pp. WHO NOW REMEMBERS John Witherspoon? Despite his many achievements--a celebrated pastor, president...

New Maistre studies.(Joseph de Maistre's Life, Thought, and Influence: Selected Studies)(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Joseph de Maistre's Life, Thought, and Influence: Selected Studies, edited by Richard Lebrun, Montreal-Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001. 338 pp. IN Joseph de Maistre's Life, Thought and Influence Maistre is the focal point...

An unconvincing defense.(COMMENTS)(Common-Law Liberty: Rethinking American Constitutionalism)(Book review)
March 22, 2006... COMMON-LAW LIBERTY: Rethinking American Constitutionalism, by James R. Stoner, Jr., is a short book of essays, half of which were previously published, that is guided by the best intentions. Professor Stoner defends the reasonableness and the...

The conservative movement in discontinuity.
March 22, 2006... THE FALL 2005 ISSUE of Modern Age included George W. Carey's "The Future of Conservatism" that attracted my attention for several reasons. It was forcefully written and testified to Professor Carey's accumulated knowledge of constitutional...

Silverfish.(Poem)
March 22, 2006... The silverfish, unable to crawl up The steep, cool porcelain walls, Goes round and round the oblong Until I turn on the water and it spins, Scrambling furiously, down the bathtub drain Into the secret night of this house from which It...