Contents
American Culture: A Story, 5
Bruce P. Frohnen
Burke’s Higher Romanticism:
Politics and the Sublime, 14
William F. Byrne
My Ninetieth Year and Gate, 36
Poems by Peter Viereck
The Legacy of Peter Viereck:
His Prose Writings, 38
Claes G. Ryn
Irving Babbitt, the Moral Imagination,
and Progressive Education, 50
Glenn A. Davis
Joseph Conrad’s Moral Imagination, 65
James Seaton
Mysticism in Contemporary Islamic
Political Thought: Orhan Pamuk
and Abdolkarim Soroush, 71
John von Heyking
Michael Polanyi, Alasdair MacIntyre,
and the Role of Tradition, 97
Mark T. Mitchell
The Tears of Priam: Reflections on
Troy and Teaching Ancient Texts, 126
James J. Dillon
John of Salisbury, the Policraticus,
and Political Thought, 133
Quentin Taylor
Richard Rorty’s Postmodern Case for
Liberal Democracy: A Critique, 158
George Bragues
Locke the Hermenaut and the
Mechanics of Understanding, 182
Michael P. Berman