The Death that Makes Life Bearable
Is there a place for “the question of death” in the education of human beings and citizens? What might that place be? How might the question be…
Is there a place for “the question of death” in the education of human beings and citizens? What might that place be? How might the question be…
Beauty is communal. We know what beautiful architecture looks like. Tourists travel from all over the world to see the buildings of Italy, the Baptistry in Florence,…
A recent essay republished at VoegelinView provided an informative critique of Allan Bloom’s Closing of the American Mind.[1] I read Bloom’s book twenty years ago. It was…
Rémi Brague. Curing Mad Truths: Medieval Wisdom for the Modern Age. South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press, 2019. In this collection of lectures, Brague begins…
Based on a book by Jeff VanderMeer, the movie Annihilation[1] is a fairly straightforward presentation of the ideas of René Girard. The book is more nuanced and…
Emmanuel Levinas (1905-1995) was a French Jewish philosopher born in Kaunas, Lithuania. He studied philosophy in Strasburg, France. In 1940 he was captured by the Nazis and…
The fourteen-year-old Mozart didn’t see himself as being a music pirate, mind you. He was just doing the thing he so excelled at, with his musical genius and…
So many, mock me in their ripening, Their abundance – singly, in clusters Of twos and threes - bold as nothing Else to see, their globes of…
We shall try fortune in a second fight. - Brutus Act 4 of the Julius Caesar has shown us that in a world devoid of divine providence,…
In The Master and His Emissary, Iain McGilchrist writes that a bird, as with the rest of us, needs two types of consciousness simultaneously. It must be…
Yoram Hazony. Conservatism: A Rediscovery. Washington DC: Regnery, 2022. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the past 30 years has abounded with intellectual brouhaha over…
R.V. Young. Shakespeare and the Idea of Western Civilization. Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2022. How should we read Shakespeare? Some people say not…
*Today is June 19, also known as Juneteenth, the day of the formal proclamation of the freedom of all slaves in the former Confederate state of Texas…
Christopher H. Owen. Heaven Can Indeed Fall: The Life of Willmoore Kendall. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. In this age of resurgent populism on the right,…
Nathan Harter. Leadership Across Boundaries: A Passage to Aporia. New York: Routledge Press, 2020. I teach in a department with leadership in its name. Presumably, we…