Most Recent Articles from Modern Age

• Conservatism in Winter 

  When the previous issue of Modern Age was being readied for the press, the elections of 2008 were yet to be decided. As I write this, we approach...

  01/01/09 by R.V. Young · More from publication

• Mass, class, and audience: beyond the Glenn Gould problem 

  The critical point of crossover between sociological and musicological forms of analysis is audience. Earlier varieties of analysis that dwelt on...

  01/01/09 by Irving Louis Horowitz · More from publication

• Karen Blixen and the Apocalypse of Man: a Voegelinian meditation 

  "The Age of Reason has received its name, not because it was particularly reasonable, but because the thinkers of the eighteenth century believed...

  01/01/09 by Thomas F. Bertonneau · More from publication

• Law and counsel 

  "... the untrue assumption that man as man is thinkable as a being that lacks awareness of sacred restraints ..." "... the untrue assumption that...

  01/01/09 by Ralph C. Hancock · More from publication

• On a sculpture by Herbert Adams 

  American Beauty Exhibition, National Gallery, Dublin, 2002 American Beauty Exhibition, National Gallery, Dublin, 2002 I ...

  01/01/09 by James Matthew Wilson · More from publication

• Abortions 

  After the first, Kate dreamed quite frequently After the first, Kate dreamed quite frequently That a gutted kitten, eyeless and gray, Revolved on a...

  01/01/09 by William Bedford Clark · More from publication

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