The following by Tim Marchman -- from a column entitled “The Hollow Man” -- appeared in the blog/magazine New Partisan on 3/11/04:
“For generations the young have been taught to emulate the romantic, clandestine life of the artist, to seek out that fabulous place where everyone knew each other and anyone who didn't was dead inside and nothing mattered because the modern had obviated convention.
“I do not share that belief; I do not think that modernism's legacy is the cluster of like-minded young persons imagining they are changing a world irredeemably set against them, even if (as occasionally happens) they are. I believe that modernism is T.S. Eliot being baptized into the Church of England, forcing himself into the steady discipline of reconciliation to a world that had changed beyond understanding. The problem is not that the world does not comprehend us, but that we do not comprehend the world; the way to reconciliation, as Eliot understood, is through conventions.”
I just discovered New Partisan; it calls itself “an urban-based journal of politics, culture, and the arts.” The Editor-in-Chief is Harry Siegel; the Senior Editor is Tim Marchman; the “Gal Friday” is A.R. Brook Lynn; other columnists are Jonathon Leaf and Richard O’Keeffe.
From this conservative site emanates an understated, classical sophistication; a subdued, sterling polish. Its intelligence and literary quality reminds me of The New Criterion blog: Armavirumque (from where I got the link).
I love the style.