
Expanding the Canon of Conservatism
New from the Winter 2021 issue of Modern Age
This is no longer your father’s American conservatism. Who gets to define it in 2021?
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Art for the Country’s Sake
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Our constitutional order grows not out of liberal ideology but from roots in nature and historical experience.
Can We Recover the Constitution’s Constitution?
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A Civilizational Foreign Policy
The idea of the "West" virtually vanished in American foreign policy post-9/11. One author says it's time to bring it back.
The Queen’s Gambit: A Superhero Story
The Netflix superhit sees chess not as a grand, global metaphor but as a path to one woman’s self-healing.
Humane Economies
What kind of economy do we want? Reforms are needed, but whose interests will be served? A new book throws down the gauntlet.
Ballast on the Ship of State: Statesmanship as Human Excellence
Realism without moral purpose has misled modern statecraft, which should follow instead the wisdom of Cicero and the...
Baffled by Success
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