Modern Age articles from September 2003

Modern Age archives from September 2003

The known.(Brief Article)(Poem)
September 22, 2003... Meadow, bloom, and mounds of rubbled stone Compose the panorama called "Springflowers." We see what the photographer alone Has seen, but as we look we make it ours. Six-petaled stars (I cannot name their name) Come forth amid long,...

Conservative minds revisited.(A Quarterly Review)(50th anniversary of Russell Kirk's book, The Conservative Mine)(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2003... THE YEAR 2003 MARKS the fiftieth anniversary of Russell Kirk's seminal work, The Conservative Mind. Since Kirk (1918-1994) was also the founding editor of this quarterly review, it is fitting that Modern Age mark this milestone appropriately....

An experiment in honesty: Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Friend.(Conservative Minds Revisited)(Samuel Taylor Coleridge's conservatism can be observed in The Friend, a serial publication)
September 22, 2003... CONSERVATIVES TODAY OWE A debt of gratitude to Russell Kirk for rightly seeing in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's mature thought a great deal more than the epithet "romantic poet" might suggest. Still, some may wonder how exactly Coleridge--notorious...

John Quincy Adams and American conservatism.(Conservative Minds Revisited)
September 22, 2003... IN THE CONSERVATIVE MIND, John Quincy Adams appears as a flawed, failed conservative. Though he "felt the pressing necessity for conservative principle in the conduct of American affairs," Adams "never quite discovered how to fix upon it." This...

The need for renewal: Nathaniel Hawthorne's conservatism.(Conservative Minds Revisited)(American writer's )(reminds conservatives to renew beliefs in face of changing society)
September 22, 2003... IN A CHAPTERIN The Conservative Mind titled "Transitional Conservatism: New England Sketches," Russell Kirk cited John Quincy Adams, Orestes Brownson, and Nathaniel Hawthorne as figures in whom the "conservative instinct struggled for...

Orestes Brownson on Catholicism and republicanism.(Conservative Minds Revisited)(Orestest Augustus Brownson, author and clergyman)(writer on social and religious questions)
September 22, 2003... ORESTES BROWNSON'S PRESENCE looms large in Russell Kirk's celebrated 1953 tome, in large part because, for Kirk, Brownson represents a luminous thinker unjustly neglected by modern scholars. (1) Even further, Brownson seems to be a central...

The re-imagined Aristotelianism of John Henry Newman.(Conservative Minds Revisited)(cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and one of the founders of the Oxford movement)
September 22, 2003... IN DEFENSE OF TRADITION, "Burke theorized shoddily" and should be remembered as "an agent of positive harm." (1) This is the judgment of Alasdair MacIntyre, no shoddy theorist of tradition himself. Questioning the wisdom of Burke's "wisdom...

Paul Elmer More: America's Reactionary.(Conservative Minds Revisited)(literary critic, educator and philosopher)(was associated with the New Humanism movement)
September 22, 2003... LONG AGO, THE NATION HAD a conservative editor. Paul Elmer More edited the already venerable magazine for five years just before the First World War. On joining The Nation, More was already an entrenched conservative; indeed, he preferred the...

George Santayana on liberalism and the spiritual life.(Conservative Minds Revisited)(American philosopher and poet)(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2003... ANYONE WHO CONSULTS THE ARCHIVES of the late philosopher Eric Voegelin can read the surprising, and to some minds frustrating, letter that Voegelin wrote to the historian George H. Nash. Nash, who had just completed work on The Conservative...

The voice of this Calling: the enduring legacy of T.S. Eliot.(Conservative Minds Revisited)
September 22, 2003... IN 1953, THE FIRST EDITION of The Conservative Mind was subtitled From Burke to Santayana; the second and every edition thereafter bore the subtitle From Burke to Eliot. Not only did this adjustment afford Kirk a bookend better consisting with...

Locke and liberal origins.(Book Reviews)(Launching Liberalism: On Lockean Political Philosophy)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Launching Liberalism: On Lockean Political Philosophy, by Michael P. Zuckert, Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. xi + 375 pp. THIS COLLECTION, FOR IN TRUTH it is not a unified book, brings together thirteen of Michael Zuckert's...

Interpreting ancient texts.(Book Reviews)(What is Ancient Philosophy?)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... What is Ancient Philosophy? by Pierre Hadot; translated by Michael Chase, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002. 352 pp. PIERRE HADOT, emeritus professor of classical history at the College de France, is highly regarded among...

Maverick conservatism.(Book Reviews)(Willmoore Kendall: Maverick of American Conservatives)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Willmoore Kendall: Maverick of American Conservatives, edited by John A. Murley and John E. Alvis; foreword by William F. Buckley, Jr. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2002. WILLMOORE KENDALL (1909-1967) remains one of the most important...

English conservatism in the nineteenth century.(Book Reviews)(The Quarrel of Macaulay and Croker: Politics and History in the Age of Reform)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... The Quarrel of Macaulay and Croker: Politics and History in the Age of Reform, by William Thomas, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. 352 pp. FEW THINGS AGE SO RAPIDLY as political speeches, and much the same can be said of...