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Europe East and West by Norman Davies (London: Jonathan Cape, 2006). 560 pp. BRIAN DOMITROVIC teaches in the Department of History at Sam Houston State University. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Stanford is notorious as the university that killed off “Western Culture,” but perhaps that reputation is undeserved. In the late 1980s, Stanford […]
Thomas More by John Guy, New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2000.1 The Last Letters of Thomas More, ed. Alvaro de Silva, Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2000. Thomas More on Statesmanship by Gerard B. Wegemer, Washington, D. C.: CUA Press, 1998 (p-back). The Life of Thomas More by Peter Ackroyd, New York, NY: Doubleday, 1998.2 […]
MICHAEL P. FEDERICI is Professor of Political Science at Mercyhurst College and the author of Eric Voegelin: The Restoration of Order Russell Kirk: A Critical Biography of a Conservative Mind by James E. Person, Jr. (Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1999). 249 pp. Russell Kirk and the Age of Ideology by W. Wesley McDonald. (Columbia, MO: […]
Earlier this year, two former presidents of ISI, William F. Buckley Jr. and E. Victor Milione, passed away within a few weeks of one another. ISI President T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr., delivered remarks on Mr. Buckley at the Council for National Policy’s remembrance on March 7, 2008….
In September 1974, the English philosopher Michael Oakeshott delivered the Abbott Memorial Lecture at Colorado College. Entitled “A Place for Learning,” Oakeshott’s lecture attacked the dominant model of education, a model predicated on the theories of the American educationist John Dewey….
Religious faith has been a part of my life since childhood. Thinking about this essay brought to mind one of my earliest encounters with the notion of God. My father was a sculptor. . . .
Allen Tate’s contribution to I’ll Take My Stand poses a challenge. He concludes his “Remarks on Southern Religion” by stating that the way the Southerner can “take hold of his tradition” is by violence. In a group of essays that has eschewed a direct, political solution to the damaging cultural effects of industrialism, Tate challenges […]
This essay appears in the Winter-Spring 2011 issue of Modern Age. To subscribe now, go here. Generally speaking, there are two major philosophies of education: an older model which addresses moral and spiritual concerns of the mind and heart of man, and a newer one which trains us to manipulate and control the […]
JOSEPH A. AMATO is Professor Emeritus of History at Southwest State University in Marshall, Minnesota. His most recent works are On Foot: A History of Walking (NYU Press, 2004) and Jacob’s Well: A Case for Writing Family History (2008). “I am a historian; I am a patient man; the truth will out.” —Stephen Tonsor I […]
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