A Revisit to the Voegelin Essay: “Equivalences of Experience and Symbolization in History”
Part I: A Short Summary Voegelin’s essay on equivalences was written 50 years ago in 1970; it has been an essay with continued popular interest to Voegelin…
Part I: A Short Summary Voegelin’s essay on equivalences was written 50 years ago in 1970; it has been an essay with continued popular interest to Voegelin…
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he…
An Independent Empire: Diplomacy and War in the Making of the United States. Michael S. Kochin and Michael Taylor. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020. …
"How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking; always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you’ll know right away what you amount to.…
Several students, reading Ivan Karamazov’s account of the suffering of innocents, particularly little children, in the The Brothers Karamazov, take God to task for allowing this misery…
Questions, Stories, and Possibility Coming from a nine-year-old “did you ever wonder what the world would be like without you in it?” was an eye-popping question. [1]…
Possibility’s Parents: Stories at the End of Liberalism. Margaret Seyford Hrezo and Nicholas Pappas. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020. Margaret Seyford Hrezo is emeritus professor of…
Toward the end of her life, Flannery O’Connor was often asked to speak about being a Southerner, as though this were a peculiar condition in need of…
One of the most upsetting scenes in Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction” (1994) is what one would probably have to call the “rape scene.” It is the scene where…
More than forty works have been devoted to Flannery O’Connor’s life and art—I myself having recently contributed to this latest weariness in the making of many books…
“What the word says, the image shows silently; what we have heard, we have seen.” That is how the Seventh Great Ecumenical Council held at Constantinople in…
Writing in 1961 to a teacher who had sent her an interpretation of “A Good Man is Hard to Find” that she found especially misguided, Flannery O’Connor…
Many readers have been fascinated with Flannery O’Connor as a person and author, perhaps for some of the same reasons I find her so engaging. I wish…
Over the past twenty-five years or so, the fiction of Georgian Flannery O’Connor has enjoyed the widespread critical attention and popular readership that eludes far too many…
In her prefatory note to the second edition of Wise Blood, Flannery O’Connor claims that she is “congenitally innocent of theory” and that her preoccupation as a…