Wilmington, DE, Nov. 01, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Modern Age today announced the appointment of Daniel McCarthy as its new editor. This accomplished editor and writer aims to lead Modern Age to new heights of influence, just as he did during his successful tenure as editor of The American Conservative.
The Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), which publishes Modern Age, chose McCarthy after a national search this summer. He becomes the seventh editor in Modern Age’s sixty-year history, succeeding Peter Augustine Lawler, who passed away unexpectedly in May.
Modern Age publisher and ISI president Charlie Copeland said: “We are delighted to have Dan McCarthy as editor of Modern Age. Dan engineered a remarkable turnaround during his six years as editor of The American Conservative, and he has the talent, experience, and vision to make Modern Age the preeminent forum for debate and discussion of the most important ideas of concern to conservatives of all stripes.”
McCarthy said: “I am honored, and more than a little humbled, to be Modern Age’s editor. The journal has never been more salient or more necessary: conservatives, and indeed Americans of all dispositions, are in search of a philosophical anchor in these times that have left all the old assurances of politics behind. Peter Lawler set high standards for Modern Age and extended its reach before his work was tragically cut short. I am eager to build on Peter’s excellent work.”
Daniel McCarthy is director of the Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship Program at the Fund for American Studies. From 2010 through 2016 he served as editor of The American Conservative. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, USA Today, The Spectator, the National Interest, Reason, Modern Age, and other publications. McCarthy has been interviewed on NPR, the BBC, Fox Business, and many other outlets. As an undergraduate at Washington University in St. Louis, he edited a student newspaper sponsored by ISI’s Collegiate Network.
McCarthy joins a Modern Age editorial team that includes literary editor Samuel Goldman, assistant professor of political science and executive director of the Loeb Institute for Religious Freedom at George Washington University, and poetry editor James Matthew Wilson, associate professor of religion and literature at Villanova University and winner of the 2017 Hiett Prize in the Humanities.
About Modern Age
Founded by Russell Kirk in 1957, Modern Age (modernagejournal.com) is, in the words of historian George H. Nash, “the principal quarterly of the intellectual right.” University of Oklahoma scholar Wilfred McClay calls it “required reading for those who want to engage conservative thought at a high level.”
About the Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Founded in 1953, ISI works “to educate for liberty”—inspiring college students to discover, embrace, and advance the principles and virtues that make America free and prosperous.
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