Contents
Croce in America:Influence,
Misunderstanding, and Neglect, 3
David D. Roberts
The Origin of Modern Society, 35
Thomas Molnar
The Necktie, 44
A poem by William Wilborn
What Went Wrong on the Campus—
And How to Adapt to It, 45
Jacob Neusner
Tolerance, 52
A poem by C. H. Hoebeke
Reviews
Dignity in Old Age: The Poetical
Meditations of Peter Viereck, 53
Michael A. Weinstein
Tide and Continuities: Last and First Poems 1995-1938, by Peter Viereck.
Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press, 1995. xix+320 pp. $36 cloth. $20 paper.
The Last Man of Letters?
The Singular Life of Russell Kirk, 68
W. Wesley McDonald
The Sword of Imagination: Memoirs of a Half-Century of Literary Conflict, by Russell Kirk.
Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1995. 514 pp. $34.99.
Populism vs. Elitism, 73
Michael P. Federici
The Road to Mass Democracy: Original Intent and the Seventeenth Amendment, by C. H. Hoebeke.
New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1995. 211 pp. $29.95.
The Populist Persuasion, by Michael Kazin. New York: Basic Books, 1995. 381 pp. $24.
The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy, by Christopher Lasch. New York: W. W. Norton, 1995. 288 pp. $22.
Republican Virtue and America, 80
Wayne Allen
Republics Ancient and Modern: The Ancient Regime in Classical Greece, by Paul A. Rahe.
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1994. 380 pp. $22.95.
Republics Ancient and Modern, Vol. II: New Modes and Orders in Early Modern Political Thought, by Paul A. Rahe. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1994. 490 pp. $24.95.
Republics Ancient and Modern, Vol. III: Inventions of Prudence: Constituting the American Regime, by Paul A. Rahe. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1994. 380 pp. $19.95.
The Socratic Library for Everybody, 90
A Parody by James Murray Miclot