In this selected chapter from her book, Modernism and
Cultural Conflict, 1880-1922, Ann Ardis reassesses the
New Age and its status as a modernist journal by
turning her attention to "the crucial distinction
between the journal's modernist style of presentation and
its socialist politics, which are insistently and
consistently differentiated from modernism's by the
editors." Responding to the MJP's own categorization
of the journal as modernist, Ardis recontextualizes the
New Age's critique of modernity and places it in
conversation with its politics of Guild Socialism.
