Daniel McCarthy is the editor in chief of Modern Age.
Teaching the great how to be good has always been a dangerous undertaking.
Three decades after his death, the Sage of Mecosta lives on.
Ralph Fiennes and the Shakespeare Theatre Company bring a timely tragedy of succession to the nation’s capital.
In the wrong hands, it can easily lead to endless and perverse questioning of everything.
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Democracy needs the virtue of liberality, not the ideology of liberalism.
Seven decades later, we are still drawing from the work of conservatives in 1953.
Conservatives’ political victories need to be matched by the power to shape minds and lives.
Founded in 1957 by Russell Kirk and Henry Regnery, Modern Age is a journal of conservative thought and a magazine devoted to culture, history, philosophy, and the ideas behind the great currents of modern life. Follow us on X @ModAgeJournal
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