Tag: conservative art

Russell Kirk: Founder of Modern Conservatism

A recent New York Times article claimed that poetry is “dead.” The argument is not new, but since last month marked the 100th anniversary of T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land,” the modernists thought they would reiterate themselves. “We stopped writing good poetry because we are now incapable of doing so,” wrote the article’s author, Matthew…


Is the Traditional Musical Reappearing?

The musical, that distinctly American art form, has transformed significantly since its beginnings with “Show Boat” and “Oklahoma!”—musicals that took their art seriously—to its present incarnation of jukebox musicals (“Jersey Boys,” “Mamma Mia!”), corporate musicals (anything Disney), revivals (“The Music Man,” “Anything Goes”), and political or “message” musicals (“Next to Normal”). None of these genres,…