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
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