What We’re Reading
Peter Moore, Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. We are all familiar with those immortal words of the Declaration of Independence, “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit…
Aristotle, Tocqueville, and “Populism Rightly Understood”
Daniel Mahoney is someone I have known for over 30 years, after meeting him at the MPSA’s book lobby at the Palmer House in Chicago in April…
The Augustinian Imagination: Love, Lust, and Pride in the City of God
Saint Augustine of Hippo is arguably the most influential Christian philosopher and theologian who ever lived. This is not to say he is unique among Christians; several of…
Longfellow’s Poetic Heroines
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the most quintessentially American of all American poets, wrote an entire corpus inspired by early and medieval Christian theology. Longfellow drew his literary symbolism…
Final Program for the 39th International Meeting of the Eric Voegelin Society
39th International Meeting of THE ERIC VOEGELIN SOCIETY American Political Science Association Meeting August 31-September 3, 2023 Los Angeles, CA Friends, Thank you for your continued…
Hudson: A Short Story
Super flumina Babylonis Hudson Burrows knows today will be the day he fixes his son, Caleb. He mulls over his plan, while in the garage, in…
After Reagan: In Search of an Ideology and Identity for the Republican Party
The start of what is to be a highly contested and, undoubtedly, vitriolic 2024 Presidential election has begun in earnest now that the first Republican debate is…
My Lessons From the Passion of Edith Stein
1. When you, dear Edith, rose in ascension Out of a chimney at Auschwitz on the 9th of August 1942, You went up straight and Enormous into…
39th International Meeting of the Eric Voegelin Society
39th International Meeting of THE ERIC VOEGELIN SOCIETY American Political Science Association Meeting August 31-September 3, 2023 Los Angeles, CA Friends, Thank you for your continued…
Hegel and Heidegger on Nature
In Hegel and Heidegger On Nature and World, Raoni Padui explains why these philosophers reject naturalism, subjective idealism, and dualism in their conjunction with nature and the…
The Soul of Roger Scruton
I consider it one of the great blessings of my life to have studied with Sir Roger Scruton just prior to his death. After graduating from Yale,…
Is Islamism an Ideological Threat to Europe?
Few names have had more maledictions heaped on them by the pro-Islamic media than that of Dutch politician Geert Wilders. In particular, the incendiary politico has faced…
Barbie: A Confused Postmodern Masterpiece
It has been a curious and exciting thing to watch Greta Gerwig’s Barbie turn into one of the largest and most discussed films of the past decade.…
Robbie Robertson and The Last Waltz
In the summer of 1979, I worked in a small town in southern Ontario where one day I learned the Rockabilly artist Ronnie Hawkins was playing at…