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Burke and the Vitalistic Tradition
He understood that laws are not abstract rules but animating principles of a nation.
How America Was Chartered
Matthew Spalding presents the Declaration as both a gift and a responsibility.
The Fall
I’d never seen a bird’s eye close before, Until the fine and clear September day A sparrow crashed into the glass and lay Where it had fallen, gaping to implore. I should have given it the coup de grâce But knew I couldn’t bear to see it bleed And thought our neighbor’s cat could do the deed As well as I, and so I went across The grass and laid it in a place I found To shade it from the blue and cloudless sky. No sooner had I set it down beside A rose bush on the warm and fertile round, It spread its wings and legs as if to fly
The Anglers
The night before our long-awaited jaunt, We kept a vigil, praying for a catch, And when the Sun arose we donned our boots And met a guide who taught us how to cast. He showed us how each lure would trick the fish And how to read the water’s different signs Of shadows in the froth and turbulence Amid the rocks where trout were known to hide. Despite this perparation and our hopes, A scrawny rainbow was our only prize And even had it been enough to keep, We had to let it free before it died. We went upstream to bathe in our defeat
Still Life with Seth Thomas Tambour Mantel Clock
The mantel-clock sits, silent like a dumb Napoleonic hat upon the ledge— The winding key long gone; the brass gears stilled To rest; its plain once shining face, now glum With dust; its hands forever point in pledge To English tea at four o’clock. Deep in the chilled Cellar of self, my mom is stuck—age four, Caught in a crowd at the train platform’s edge, Her eyes at pocket-level and tear-filled, Search for Aunt Ruth’s stout figure near the door. As hours pass, her hope is killed.
Apocalypse Delayed
Apocalypse is late at every turn. In eighteen fifty-two, they built an ark, Since Pisces planned to douse the world in floods. Instead, a paltry drizzle fell that day. In nineteen ten, the comet Hailey failed To wreck the earth as it had aimed to do. December twenty-twelve, the Mayan disc Completed its rotation. We’re still here. The year grows old and sags, then turns anew That’s not so new. And here we are, alive In the between times, far from end of ends, And far from its beginning. Cradled there
Letter to Horace After Reading Ode i.24
in honor of David Solomon Horace, I must confess, you’ve managed to surprise Me. I had thought there were too many centuries Between us—that your verse would sound like dusty, sighs; Nothing that would please. We’ve travelled to the moon. Earth’s secondary light, And touched night’s quiet lamp without the help of dreams. We’ve mapped the sea’s deep floor and joined the birds in flight; All nymphs have left their streams. We’ve pierced the heart of things and found it empty there. The veiled lies bare beneath our scientific probe—
Alito the Restorer
At the close of the latest Supreme Court term, which saw major decisions on birthright citizenship, executive power, the Second Amendment, and absentee voting, conservatives found themselves once again grateful not only for Clarence Thomas but also for the incisive and courageous Samuel Alito. He is indeed, as the title of Mollie Hemingway’s new biography suggests, reshaping the court for the better, restoring the Constitution and correcting deformations of justice brought about by decades of judicial activism.
Judging Hume and Rawls
Aaron Alexander Zubia’s book The Political Thought of David Hume is a remarkable achievement in Hume scholarship. Its central claim is that Hume revived Epicureanism for modern politics. For Epicureans, and for Hume, knowledge derives from experience. The world is despiritualized, and religion is
Communities and Their Quests
Few readers of Modern Age will be unfamiliar with Robert Nisbet, known most widely for his seminal 1953 book The Quest for Community. But equally few are likely to have read what Luke C. Sheahan calls Nisbet’s “most thorough and philosophically adept account of his understanding of community.” That would be The Social Philosophers, originally published in 1973 and now brought back into print by the American Philosophical Society Press and Sheahan (a professor of political science at Duquesne University and the editor of The University Bookman).
A Contentious Declaration
During this 250th anniversary of independence, Americans have been flooded with books purporting to be the definitive histories or accounts of the Declaration. Some have contributed to scholarship and others have regurgitated the standard court history of independence: propositional nationhood, an amalgamated American people, and a general government superior to the thirteen colonies/states.
David Foster Wallace: No Jest
He wrote a generation's masterpiece—and died trying to surpass it.
Little Houses of Liberty
Laura Ingalls Wilder and the American Revolution.
Locke’s Anthropology
How the rules by which we live were written.
Rock Rolls Away
As strange as it may sound, rock and roll is the conservative movement’s fraternal twin. They were born at the same time. The very year a rock song topped the Billboard charts for the first time—it was Bill Haley’s “Rock Around the Clock”—was the year William F. Buckley Jr. launched National Review. Nineteen fifty-five was a banner year for Bills.
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