What We’re Reading
Michael Burlingame, Abraham Lincoln: A Life. Michael Burlingame is America’s leading scholar of Abraham Lincoln. A new, single volume, abridgement of his two-volume biography of America’s sixteenth…
Abolishing Aristotle’s Class Distinction with Help from Plato and Rousseau
“People don’t like freedom.” -Thomas Bernhard Aristotle, late in the Politics, says a lot of people don’t know how to live during peacetime, don’t know how…
It Falls To Fools
Oh, what is better than the burden of being wise being lifted? The wise have their answers– And their sorrows. It falls to we fools to dance…
Iain McGilchrist on Determinism
The bottom line on determinism is that were it to be true, we could never know it was true because we would not be conscious – or,…
To Arms: A Review of “The Firearm Revolution” by Catherine Fletcher
In the United States, gun ownership is most often associated with the political right. Indeed, second amendment rights is one issue that social conservatives, libertarians, neoconservatives, and the…
Tom Wolfe and Alfred North Whitehead’s Squirrel
Mankind enjoys a vision of the function of form with fact, and of the issue of value from this interplay. ~ Alfred North Whitehead In Modes…
Open for Submissions
VOEGELINVIEW is the interdisciplinary arts and humanities journal of the Eric Voegelin Society. Established in 2009 as an online resource for scholars and graduate students studying the…
The humming
It was not a night to remember, rather, a night to forget. Late autumn, my German Shepherd and I in a farm cottage on the far reaches…
Cutting Homer Down to Size: Nolan’s Odyssey
Sir Christopher Nolan violates the sacred world order of Homer to tell a story about Odysseus violating the moral order of Nolan’s world. Odysseus, and the rest…
God in the Secular World
The long march to secularity has been one of the most widely discussed and debated topics in both the popular imagination and academic discourse. While a major…
A Darkly Beautiful, Almost Epic Masterpiece of The Odyssey
“Cleverness will get you in trouble.” When teaching Homer’s Odyssey, students will often ask questions about the unexpected character of Odysseus, the hero of the epic. They…
What Makes us Human: Human-Animal Interaction in Gulliver’s Travels and Elsewhere
One well-known theme in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, first published three hundred years ago this year, is the relation or relations between human beings and “beasts,” or…
The Forest
We found a fallen path in failing light Twilight deepening to a fragile night And searching saw the ash, well grown As wandered long amidst the ancient…
Baseball as Covenant: Kendall’s Enduring Symbols of Ordered Self-Government
Willmoore Kendall’s intellectual trajectory presents a fascinating interplay between play, virtue, and political order, tracing a remarkable continuity from his adolescent reflections on baseball to his mature…
The Hollowing of Democracy: A Review of Camil Roman’s “The French Revolution and Its Legacy”
Representative democracy suffers from an inbuilt tension. On the one hand, the democratic ideal is rule ‘of the people, by the people, for the people’ as Lincoln…