Summer 1957
Editorials
Essays
- American Republic or American Empire by Felix Morley
- Europe and German Unity by Béla Menczer
- History, Toynbee, and the Modern Mind by Frederick D. Wilhelmsen
- Jose Ortega y Gasset by Julian Marias
- Life Without Prejudice by Richard M. Weaver
- Recuperating Spain by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
- The Great Books by Geoffrey Wagner
- Three Words on America by J. M. Reid
- Titoism by Slobodan M. Draskovich
Books
- Aron’s L’Opium Des Intellectuels by Rudolf Allers
- Books on the Schools by William McCann
- Immortal Mr. Dooley by Francis Russell
- Niebuhr’s The Self and the Dramas of History by Ludwig Freund
- The Treason of the Clerks by Russell Kirk
Poetry
- A Dialogue with La Mettrie by John Logan
- Seascape Remembered by Henry Rago
- Spicatto by Galway Kinnell
- Three Poems from Delta Return by Charles G. Bell
Modern Letters
- Notes on Contributors by Editors
- What Modern Age Needs by Editors
Symposium
- Editor’s Note by Editors
- Morbid Democracy by Jose Ortega Y Gasset and Anthony Kerrigan
- Pedagogy and Anachronism by Jose Ortega Y Gasset and Anthony Kerrigan
Current Issue
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Notes Toward the Definition of Kitsch
by Roger Kimball
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Religion and Empire, Inseparable
by Dominic Green
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Flannery at 100—and Forever
by Chilton Williamson, Jr.
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Kitsch is more than bad art; it’s a flight from freedom to servitude.
Its supporters want to dismantle the West and return it to the “natives.”
Justin Trudeau’s post-nationalist nightmare presents an opportunity for conservatives.
The theorist of the managerial revolution never let ideology obscure truth.
Our economy offers the temptation to chase vice but also the freedom to develop virtue.
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Alasdair MacIntyre’s Capital Mistake
The Catholic philosopher borrows an ill-conceived idea from Karl Marx.
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Due Process
The cherished principle is often misapplied.
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Flannery at 100—and Forever
O’Connor’s work, fiction and not, is Catholic, gothic, Southern, and timeless.
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