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Defining and Defending America
At this moment of expanding revelations of political corruption at the highest levels of Government we can think of nothing more fitting than to reprise Ellis Sandoz' reflections on what it means to be an American: "The heart of the matter, and its most delicate aspect, is to connect Americanism with the biblical faith of Americans as the chief source of its strength and enduring resilience–and of its frequent arousal of anti-American sentiments from ideologues of every stripe, . . ." Read this week  "Americanism –The Capacity to Resist Ideologues."

Myth, Magic, and The Meaning of Life
We conclude the last of the Conversations that Eric Voegelin held with students at the St. Thomas More Institute. Voegelin ranges over many topics, including useful reminders about language: “One of the first rules is that no one is permitted to use the term ‘value’–because it is meaningless. Each must say what he means . . . Within three weeks the seminar gains a degree of realism that is almost incredible–just by skipping that one nonsense word.” Read this week "Looking at the Big Questions: part 3 – Myth, Magic, and the Meaning of Life."

Liberty without Vulgar Liberalism
This week Promise Hsu explains to his Chinese readers how his research led him to relate Christ to liberty and freedom: “What I did not expect in a deeper sense was that . . . I would be drawn to know about those who have been attracted not just to the roots of liberty and freedom but also to “divine reality” and have more or less done the work of “a watchman.” Read part 5 of “The Reality of Politics and the Relevance of Voegelin.”

A Film's Stunning Accomplishment
We are pleased to welcome Chris Morrissey to VoegelinView. Professor Morrissey offers us a meditation in which he finds compelling similarities between a film of Terrence Malik, Tree of Life, and the thought of Eric Voegelin, both of whom try to recovery reality by pointing to experience rather than the worn symbols of the past: ''Whether or not Malick has been reading Voegelin, [the film's] stunning accomplishment is to root cinematic experience firmly in the basis of the real human experience of a soul in relation to the divine." Read this week "Between the Beginning and the Beyond.”

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