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“With the sole exception of Flannery O’Connor . . . no other American novelist in this century has more accurately diagnosed the spiritual crisis of modernity,” @Gregory_Wolfe writes of Walker Percy.
Read his essay from Arguing Conservatism:
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By dodging questions of what man is, and what he is for, politicians and activists focusing on managerial policy contribute to the modern malaise.
@Gregory_Wolfe’s essay on the work of Walker Percy:
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Kirk’s The Roots of American Order, @gleaveswhitney writes, “showed how American order . . . grew out of the rich subsoil of four ancient cities: Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, and London.”
His Fall 2001 essay on Russel Kirk’s moral imagination:
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Kirk’s prolific ghost stories, especially Old House of Fear, sought to re-enchant the modern world.
@gleaveswhitney’s Fall 2001 on Russell Kirk’s swords of imagination:
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From escape artistry, to clairvoyance, and even obtaining his own job, Houdini mastered the art of deception—much to the enjoyment of his audience.
Christopher Sandford on the legendary magician:
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Russell Kirk equipped himself with five swords of imagination: historical, political, moral, poetic, and prophetic.
Read @gleaveswhitney’s Fall 2001 essay on the Sage of Mecosta:
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The violence of some on the Pilgrimage of Grace provided Henry VIII with the opportunity to abdicate his promises and seize the monasteries.
Thomas Banks on the Reformation in England:
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“The general attitude toward King Henry VIII’s dispossession of the monasteries included many varieties of opinion, but it was popular among the nobility and rising men who were to be its main beneficiaries,” Thomas Banks recalls.
Read his essay:
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“I began reading Balzac only because I first watched a Chinese film about Balzac and a seamstress. And like Luo, I reached the happy conclusion of Ursule Mirouët while the world slept.”
Alex Littlefield on Dai Sijie’s Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress:
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Balzac’s works “confirm a universal truth about literature: We all yearn to imagine lives other than our own, and to find ourselves in them,” writes Alex Littlefield.
His essay on Dai Sijie’s Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress:
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Houdini died on Halloween, carrying on the magician’s style of deceptive entertainment.
Christopher Sandford from the Fall 2026 issue:
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“To portray Berry as a puckishly gifted lyricist and a canny adapter of other men’s music is in no way to detract from his role as one of the founding fathers of rock and roll,” writes Christopher Sandford.
Read his essay from the Fall 2026 issue:
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“Hawthorne and Melville were born to a great tradition, but they did not stop there. They worked to refine it, enliven it, and reconcile it with their communities, their families, and their souls,” writes Glen Austin Sproviero: modernagejournal.com/hawthor…
“A morally populist politics would be more comfortable with moralism precisely because it would be more confident—with Hadley Arkes—in the universality of the natural law.”
Damian Bell: modernagejournal.com/hadley-…
Hawthorne and Melville’s work shows how inheritance requires contemplation through the moral imagination.
Read more from Glen Austin Sproviero: modernagejournal.com/hawthor…
“Lord Acton’s high appeal to conscience, dedication to liberty, defense of Catholicism, and transforming influence on the study of history in England make him one of the most important figures in European thought in the nineteenth century and one of the most influential in the twentieth century.”
From Stephen Tonsor: modernagejournal.com/lord-ac…
“Rock was an idiom of freedom, as postwar conservatism was . . . no matter how left-wing the musicians themselves might be.”
@ToryAnarchist on Rock 'n' Roll and American conservatism from our Fall 2026 issue:
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“Lord Acton shares with Tocqueville the roles of prophetic critic of socialism and tyranny and apostle of liberty.”
From Stephen Tonsor: modernagejournal.com/lord-ac…
“Hadley Arkes is not just a moral populist but also a moral philosopher for populists,” writes Damian Bell.
Read more here: modernagejournal.com/hadley-…
Hasan Piker is the result of pop culture’s collapse, writes @ToryAnarchist.
Read his editorial from our new print issue here: modernagejournal.com/rock-ro…