The Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) is a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to fostering traditional liberal education and promoting conservative values among college students. Established in 1953, ISI aims to cultivate a deeper understanding of the principles of liberty and the American founding through scholarly publications, events, and student programs. The organization engages with college communities across the United States, encouraging intellectual discourse and providing resources for students interested in classical learning, conservative thought, and responsible citizenship.
The Intercollegiate Studies Institute publishes the journal Modern Age: A Conservative Review. The journal is a place where the different facets of conservatism are brought together and debated—where the vital work of renewal continues on a regular basis. In the decades since its founding Modern Age has served as the principal quarterly of the intellectual right.
Summer 2026 issue of Modern Age
Partner Features shared with Mars Hill Audio
The Lord of the dance
Orienting reason and passions
Stephen Gurney: “John Henry Newman: The Poetics of Devotion”
Thomas Howard: “The ‘Moral Mythology’ of C. S. Lewis”
John F. Desmond: “Walker Percy and Suicide”
Jeremy Beer: “On Christopher Lasch”
Vigen Guroian: “Awakening the Moral Imagination: Teaching Virtues through Fairy Tales”
Robert R. Riley: “The Music of the Spheres, or the Metaphysics of Music”
Richard Sherlock: “The Secret of Straussianism”
Louise Cowan: “The Necessity of the Classics”
