What We’re Reading
William Shakespeare, King Lear. King Lear is one of the great, late, tragedies by William Shakespeare. Set in a fictionalized pre-Roman Britain, King Lear, near his death,…
Deconstructing the Myth of Rome: Augustine’s 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…
Angry Olympus Awaits
We kings and queens have let Our subjects run amok. They line up on our stoop and wait For us to straighten up. Their anxious anger lies…
History and Historicism
The thinking of Leo Strauss and Karl Popper is by no means identical. It is enough to mention that Strauss was a great admirer of Plato, while…
Preserving our Authentic Humanity: The Vatican’s Meditation on Artificial Intelligence
The Vatican’s recent meditation on Artificial Intelligence (AI), Antiqua et Nova, brings a sense of measured calm to a subject that has caused strong and varying reactions,…
How Can an Introvert Become a Believer?
You might wonder about the title: how could "introvert" be an obstacle to becoming a “believer?” Yet that’s exactly how I felt when I first stepped into…
Laurence Lampert and the Problem of Reason and Revelation
World renowned Nietzsche scholar Laurence Lampert passed away in 2024. A Canadian born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and teaching from 1970 to 2005 at Indiana University, Lampert influenced…
The Hidden Gems of Budapest
I finished Grad-School in Chicago in 2010; having had the opportunity to work abroad in China, Canada, South America, Mexico and in Spain, Central and Eastern Europe…
Ethics, Not Metaphysics: A Review of Buddha, Socrates and Us
In The Origin and the Goal of History, Karl Jaspers calls the period from 800 BC to 200 BC “the axial age.” This period consisted of much…
Voegelin’s Influence on Contemporary Confucians’ Understanding of Chinese Order: A Sketch of Wenming Tang and Yun Chen’s Latest Books
One question that has long intrigued Voegelin scholars is why, despite Voegelin having been introduced to China for decades, his research on China has yet to gain…
In Defense of Christian Freedom
License destroys freedom, and force denies it. True freedom is a perfect paradox: somehow both fully free and fully bound. Christians are rightly reticent to adopt the…
Staccato Note
brittle leaves scatter along the empty street stars wavering in the chilling breeze rusting and rustling trees in the lamplight waxing moon growing to fullness I am…
Heraclitus and the Notion of the Philosopher
If Pythagoras (6th–5th century BC) was the one who inaugurated the use of the term “philosophy” (i.e., “love, friendship for wisdom”), then Heraclitus (6th century BC) was…