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This essay appears in the Winter–Fall 2012 issue of Modern Age. To subscribe now, go here. For some time now, our whole European culture has been moving as toward a catastrophe, with a tortured tension that is growing from decade to decade: restlessly, violently, headlong, like a river that wants to reach the […]
Maybe it’s time we reconsidered our understanding of separation.
Your intellectual life (and your ongoing education) will be the richer for it.
In this space, the Winter issue of Modern Age dwelt briefly on the theme of “conservatism in winter”; there will be no corresponding reflection on “the springtime of liberalism” in this Spring issue. Although the popular media have in recent months made much of the putative resurgence of political liberalism, the liberal spirit thrives today […]
Viewers the world over witnessed not long ago the Reagan funeral service at the Episcopal Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, the impressive neo-English Gothic structure in Washington, D.C., popularly known as The National Cathedral. The anachronism of a national cathedral apart, the church does serve as the site of many religious services associated with events of a national character. . . .
One’s attitude toward Islam is likely to be determined by one’s attitude to Roman Catholicism. Western culture is so bound up with its classical and Christian sources that, given a historical perspective, the two are inseparable. . . .
To know The Conservative Mind is to know the mind of its remarkable author, Russell Kirk. He was an old-fashioned man—courtly, retiring, serene, formal in dress and manner— whose view of the world, proclaimed by every photograph, was traditional, anti-modern, even obscure. Captured in his study, his library, his home, surrounded by pens, books, family, […]
This contribution to “George Panichas: A Tribute” appears in the Winter-Spring 2011 issue of Modern Age. To subscribe now, go here. Both as a writer and as editor of Modern Age, George Panichas sought to show the patrimony that conservatives seek to conserve and to engage us, not merely on the level of contemporary […]
JUDE P. DOUGHERTY is Professor Emeritus and Dean Emeritus at the School of Philosophy of the Catholic University of America. Cultural historians necessarily deal in broad generalizations. Whatever is affirmed of a period, a people, or a nation, no matter how well-grounded by factual study and reflection, is subject to qualification. Exceptions to broad characterizations […]
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