Essays
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Russell Kirk as a Political Theorist
The founder of Modern Age saw the need for order in the soul and in society.
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The Myth of “Indigenous” Cultures
Claiming the moral high ground over “settler colonialists” will never deliver true justice.
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Japan’s Southern-Style Conservatism
Out of histories of defeat comes a sense of solidarity and respect for tradition.
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Russell Kirk, 1918–1994
This memorial of the Sage of Mecosta, originally from 1995, recalls the man in full.
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Right Reason Does Not Pay
The story of Modern Age: encounters with Flannery O’Connor, Leo Strauss, and the utopian designs of Moral Rearmament.
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Machiavelli and the Modes of Terrorism
Cruelty, fraud, and conspiracy have been transformed into political virtues among modern radicals.
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Lance Morrow’s Time at the Top
How the legendary journalist outlived the end of Time.
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A Lenin Century
The Soviet Union is long gone, but the evil example of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov remains.
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The Moral Meaning of Flannery O’Connor
Her work has been called hard-headed, unsparing, grotesque. It’s also stubbornly anti-secular and deeply orthodox.
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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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