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Daniel McCarthy

Daniel McCarthy is the editor in chief of Modern Age.

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    The Road to Digital Despotism

    Digital oligarchies that can sway elections, organize mobs, and deny citizens a platform are a threat to our republican form of government. It’s time to act.

    The Road to Digital Despotism

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    Dead End for the Left

    Progressivism is outdated, argues Modern Age editor Daniel McCarthy. But like Soviet communism, its power is its tomb.

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    Right Angles

    Does American conservatism need a revised canon of its classic texts? If so, shouldn’t it at least be…conservative?

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    Art for the Country’s Sake

    Can immersion in great literature prevent American decline into a brutal empire populated by shallow, servile citizens?

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    Why Not Anarchy?

    If the only escape from Leviathan is radical decentralization, will conservatives become Tory anarchists?

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    Liberty Displaced

    Without a sense of place, localized politics becomes impossible, resulting in greater centralization, atomization, and hopelessness. Does democracy in America still stand a chance?

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    A Philosophy of Fear—and Society of Scolds

    What Thomas Hobbes tells us about the response to the coronavirus—and why the unafraid cannot be tolerated by right-thinking liberals.

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    The Spirits of ’89

    America and the West need a new Berlin Wall moment, not to tear down a symbol of political oppression but to throw out the ideological baggage of an earlier time

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    Fasten Your Seatbelts

    Michael Anton’s 2016 essay “The Flight 93 Election” and its sequel may have influenced a presidential election. Will his new book do the same?

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    The Future of the American Rabble

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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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