What connections could exist between Big History and the religious perspective? The answer is more than plenty. If Big History is defined as “the attempt to understand, in a unified, interdisciplinary way, the history of the Cosmos, Earth, Life, and Humanity”, then the parallels to the concerns of someone…

John Locke took the concept of rebellion which had a rich history in political philosophy and deftly assigned to it a new meaning that was useful for his political theory. But Locke failed to fully disclose the transformative nature of his conception of rebellion. Instead, he attempted to make…

An ongoing debate in American political science regards the dispositions of the factions within American society towards one another; some scholars argue that a culture war obtains, while others point towards the peaceful transitions of power and the respect for political opposition in America as hallmarks of an exemplary…

Eric Voegelin’s 1956 essay “Necessary Moral Bases for Communication in a Democracy” is of tremendous worth to the careful analyst of 21st century American political thought.   It sheds much light on the effect that communication styles may have on the character of a society, and it sheds further light…

Academy of Philosophy and Letters (APL) will hold its annual conference in Baltimore on June 7-9 on the theme, “America the Beautiful?” This years’ conference theme is “America the Beautiful?”  Much about the U.S. has long been recognized as beautiful, and much has not.  Beauty—and ugliness—take many forms, and…

Anamnesis is a remembering or recollection of the orienting truths of existence that ought never to be forgotten. Mircea Eliade, in his Myth and Reality, wrote that anamnesis is the recovery of “truths, that is, structures of the real.” The recovery, remembrance, or rediscovery of those structures are evocative…