These seventy-eight essays characterize the richness and diversity of conservative scholarship. Modern Age was founded in 1957 by Russell Kirk, with Henry Regnery and David S. Collier. The magazine is now published by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.
Foreword xiii
Editor’s Note xix
Prologue [1] Apology for a New Review 5
I
Concepts of Conservatism
RICHARD M. WEAVER
[2] Life Without Prejudice 11
STANLEY PARRY
[3] The Restoration of Tradition 18
JOHN DOS PASSOS
[4] Cogitations in a Roman Theatre 32
BERTRAND DE JOUVENEL
[5] A Place To Live In 39
FRANK S. MEYER
[6] Freedom, Tradition, Conservatism 48
HENRY REGNERY
[7] The Age of Liberalism 56
OTTO VON HABSBURG
[8] The Divine Right of Minorities 70
GEORGE W. CAREY
[9] Majority Rule Revisited 83
LUDWIG VON MISES
[10] On Equality and Inequality 94
MURRAY N. ROTHBARD
[11] Freedom, Inequality, Primitivism, and the Division of Labor 103
ROBERT NISBET
[12] Conservatives and Libertarians: Uneasy Cousins 124 II
Conservative Thinkers
PETER J. STANLIS
[13] Edmund Burke, the Perennial Political Philosopher 135
KLAUS EPSTEIN
[14] Disraeli and Modern Conservatism 142
DAVID BRUDNOY
[15] “Liberty by Taste”:Tocqueville’s Search for Freedom 154
JOHN CHAMBERLAIN
[16] William Graham Sumner and the Old Republic 168
MICHAEL D. CLARK
[17] Josiah Royce and American Conservatism 179
CLAES G. RYN
[18] The Humanism of Irving Babbitt Revisited 191
BYRON C. LAMBERT
[19] Paul Elmer More and the Redemption of History 204
GEORGE A. PANICHAS
[20] T. S. Eliot and the Critique of Liberalism 216
GEORGE H. NASH
[21] Willmoore Kendall: Conservative Iconoclast 234
JOHN P. EAST
[22] Leo Strauss and American Conservatism 257
ELLIS SANDOZ
[23] Voegelin Read Anew: Political Philosophy in the Age of Ideology 277
III
Roots of American Order
M. E. BRADFORD
[24] The Heresy of Equality: Bradford Replies to Jaffa 287
HARRY V. JAFFA
[25] Equality, Justice, and the American Revolution: In Reply to Bradford’s “The Heresy of Equality” 305
FORREST McDONALD
[26] The Rhetoric of Alexander Hamilton 319
ROBERT EMMET MOFFIT
[27] Orestes Brownson and the Political Culture of American Democracy 332
ANDREW LYTLE
[28] They Took Their Stand: The Agrarian View After Fifty Years 345
KURT GLASER
[29] World War II and the War Guilt Question 353
HARRY ELMER BARNES
[30] The End of the Old America 367
STEPHEN J. TONSOR
[31] The United States as a “Revolutionary Society” 381
IV
Law, Legislation, and Liberty
RUSSELL KIRK
[32] Criminal Character and Mercy 393
ERNEST VAN DEN HAAG
[33] How Much Justice? 401
ARTHUR SHENFIELD
[34] Law, Legislation, and Liberty,: Hayek’s Completed Trilogy 406
PHILIP B. KURLAND
[35] Government by Judiciary 416
C. P. IVES
[36] The Well-Intending Judges 431
FRANCIS WILSON
[37] The Supreme Court’s Civil Theology 445
SAM J. ERVIN, JR.
[38] Judicial Verbicide: An Affront to the Constitution 455
WILLMOORE KENDALL
[39] American Conservatism and the “Prayer” Decisions 465
V
The Place of Christianity
JOHN COURTNEY MURRAY, S.J.
[40] The Freedom of Man in the Freedom of the Church 483
JAMES V. SCHALL, S.J.
[41] political Theory: The Place of Christianity 495
FREDERICK D. WILHELMSEN
[42] Faith and Reason 504
WILHELM RÖPKE
[43] Liberalism and Christianity 513
ERIK VON KUEHNELT-LEDDIHN
[44] The Western Dilemma: Calvin or Rousseau? 520
RENE DE VISME WILLIAMSON
[45] The Institutional Church and Political Activity 532
WILL HERBERG
[46] Christian Faith and Totalitarian Rule 545
LEO R. WARD
[47] Dawson on Education in Christian Culture 554
VI
Not for Marx
DAVID LEVY
[48] Not for Marx 565
WILLIAM HENRY CHAMBERLAIN
[49] Fifty Years of Communist Power 576
GERHART NIEMEYER
[50] Two Socialisms 586
KARL A. WITTFOGEL
[51] Marxism, Anarchism, and the New Left 597
THOMAS MOLNAR
[52] Marxist Revisionism: A Commentary 613
GRACE RICHARDS CONANT
[53] The Cold War of the Mind: Regimentation in East Germany 621
VII
The Anatomy of Terror
J. M. LALLEY
[54] The Anatomy of Perdition 631
DAVID J. DALLIN
[55] The Kravchenko Case 639
FRANCIS RUSSELL
[56] The Last of the Anarchists 649
JOHN RUSSELL
[57] The Purloined-Letter Syndrome 666
FELIX MORLEY
[58] Europe on the Eve 669
EUGENE DAVIDSON
[59] Albert Speer and the Nazi War Plants 681
VIII
The Realm of Education
ERIC VOEGELIN
[60] On Classical Studies 699
ELISEO VIVAS
[61] The Educated Man 706
W. T. COUCH
[62] The Word and the Rope 720
JAMES BURNHAM
[63] The Circular Travels of the Professors 727
MAX PICARD
[64] Intrusion into the Soul of a Child 734
RICHARD B. HOVEY
[65] Our Disposable Past: A Protest 743
SAMUEL M. THOMPSON
[66] Paul Goodman and the Reform of Education 753
MARION MONTGOMERY
[67] Solzhenitsyn at Harvard 766
IX
Art and Criticism
MARTIN BUBER
[68] The Word That Is Spoken 781
WILLIAM ERNEST HOCKING
[69] The International Role of Art in Revolutionary Times 789
DONALD DAVIDSON
[70] Decorum in the Novel 797
AUSTIN WARREN
[71] Pater Revisited 812
SERGEI LEVITSKY
[72] Dostoevsky—Our Contemporary 817
FOLKE LEANDER
[73] Irving Babbitt and the Aestheticians 823
RAYMOND THORBERG
[74] Henry James and the Sense of the Past 833
PETER VIERECK
[75] The Crack-Up of American Optimism: Vachel Lindsay, the Dante of the Fundamentalists 844
GORHAM MUNSON
[76] The Classicism of Robert Frost 860
THOMAS H. LANDESS
[77] James Joyce and Aesthetic Gnosticism 875 Epilogue
ANTHONY HARRIGAN
[78] Modern Age in a Changing World 889