Modern Age * Summer 2017 Reviews 151 Unserious Docility Thomas P. Harmon Docilitas: On Teaching and Being Taught On the Unseriousness of Human Affairs By James V. Schall 161 Democratizing Publius Sara Henary Political Political Theory: Essays on Institutions By Jeremy Waldron 168 Save Our Slums Jerusalem By Alan Moore 174 California Dreaming, Rightly Understood James M. Patterson The Art of Being Free By James Poulos 182 The Persistence of Poetry The Fortunes of Poetry in an Age of Unmaking By James Matthew Wilson R. V. Young 26 Seaward Dana Gioia 49 Walking Through Thibodaux David Middleton 68 Winter in July 111 Parlors 192 An Exmoor Tale (with encomium by James Matthew Wilson) Eve Tushnet Poems 2 modernagejournal.comhttp://www.modernagejournal.com