Higher Calling: The Rise of Nontraditional Leaders in Academia. Scott C. Beardsley. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2017. According to Beardsley, a revolution is taking place among the leadership...
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SoTL as a Subfield for Political Science Graduate Programs
By Lee Trepanier / August 23, 2019
Today the discipline of political science is faced with the challenges of demonstrating its public worth, finding employment for its doctoral students, and discovering a common language among its specialists...
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Teaching American Politics in the Modern University
By Lee Trepanier / August 22, 2019
You may be surprised to learn of the growing movement to dispense with the study of American politics as a distinct subfield of political science, but this is a real...
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35th International Meeting of THE ERIC VOEGELIN SOCIETY, 2019
By David Walsh / August 16, 2019
35th International Meeting of THE ERIC VOEGELIN SOCIETY, 2019 American Political Science Association Meeting, August 29-September 1 Washington, DC David Walsh, Meeting Director [email protected] Dear Friends, I look...
Read More Higher Calling: The Rise of Nontraditional Leaders in Academia. Scott C. Beardsley. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2017.
According to Beardsley, a revolution is taking place among the leadership in American higher education: presidents, deans, and other administrators are coming from nontraditional paths than from the scholarly, tenure-track careers of the past. In 2012, 20% of all presidents came directly from…
According to Beardsley, a revolution is taking place among the leadership in American higher education: presidents, deans, and other administrators are coming from nontraditional paths than from the scholarly, tenure-track careers of the past. In 2012, 20% of all presidents came directly from…
Today the discipline of political science is faced with the challenges of demonstrating its public worth, finding employment for its doctoral students, and discovering a common language among its specialists (APSA 2014, 2015a, 2015b; Beltran et al. 2004; Brown-Dean 2015; Lupia 2014; PS: Political Science & Politics 2015).[1] To address this situation, I recommend that political science departments create the…
You may be surprised to learn of the growing movement to dispense with the study of American politics as a distinct subfield of political science, but this is a real and troubling challenge facing professors of political science today. Citing the increasingly global integration of politics, economics, and culture, a significant number of political scientists argue that faculty should no…
The problem with reforms is that they almost always are thinly-veiled programs of revolutionary action. Sold as corrections of abuses, reforms generally aim to subvert existing institutions and replace them with the latest plan to achieve Progress through centralized planning. Our society’s transformation from one of dedication to family, faith, and freedom to one of individualism and dependence in the…
Timelessness of Proust: Reflections on In Search of Lost Time. Charles R. Embry and Glenn Hughes, eds. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 2019.
This volume offers a philosophical-spiritual viewpoint that complements with its insights the masses of literary studies published on the work of Marcel Proust for over at least a hundred years. Much of it focuses on the narrator…
This volume offers a philosophical-spiritual viewpoint that complements with its insights the masses of literary studies published on the work of Marcel Proust for over at least a hundred years. Much of it focuses on the narrator…
In a democracy, we get the politicians we deserve. Apparently we deserve many leaders, but no statesmen. We may be happy or unhappy about the policies a politician promotes, and we may vote this way or that depending on who we think will best promote our interests. No one today, however, seems very happy about the personal caliber of our…
35th International Meeting of THE ERIC VOEGELIN SOCIETY, 2019
American Political Science Association Meeting,
August 29-September 1
Washington, DC
David Walsh, Meeting Director
Dear Friends,
I look forward to seeing you soon. Below is our program as it has settled in the month of August. We have been well served by…
Unlike other disciplines in the humanities, American political science since the 1950s has been concerned with establishing a scientific identity, drawing from the philosophy of logical positivism to establish empirical models to explain political behavior.[1] This “behavioral revolution” in the discipline reconceived science as a process of building definitions and taxonomies upon observed experience and moving from description to eventual…
This chapter proposes an alternative to contemporary liberal education, by specifying a form of liberal arts education that is fit for the 21st century. We begin with the classical period to ascertain what the founders of “liberal arts education” meant by the term. The classical authors distinguish two types of arts or main subjects of study. They hold that the…
The decline of the humanities in American higher education – literature, history, philosophy, classical studies, linguistics, and foreign languages – is most recently evident in the drop in enrollments from 17.2% of degrees in 1967 to 6.5% in 2013.[1] Further proof of this decline is the decreasing number of academic positions available in these disciplines. For instance, in the 2013-14…
Inaugural Message from Ellis Sandoz 
God is Not Just the Good, as Plato Claimed But Love 
What Enlightenment, Exactly? 
What is a Miracle? 
New Political Religions, or An Analysis of Modern Terrorism 
Eric Voegelin as Master Teacher 
The Irish Dialogue with Eric Voegelin 
The Collected Works: The Drama of Humanity (Volume 33) 
“A Cow Is Just a Cow”: George Grant and Eric Voegelin on the United States 
The Life of the Scholar 
Higher Calling: The Rise of Nontraditional Leaders in Academia 
SoTL as a Subfield for Political Science Graduate Programs 
Teaching American Politics in the Modern University 
Aristotelian Pluralism and Diversity: The Conditions for Civic Education and the Common Good 
A Philosophy of Prudence and the Purpose of Higher Education Today 
Higher Education: A Modest Proposal for Reform 
Timelessness of Proust: Reflections on In Search of Lost Time 
Raising Statesmen 
35th International Meeting of THE ERIC VOEGELIN SOCIETY, 2019 
If Music Be Food For Citizenship 
The Relevance of Political Philosophy and Political Science