Cinderella in Her Odyssey Years
After graduating as the most senior student in the history of her school, Elaine moved to Reno for more school. Ever since she migrated from China to…
What We’re Reading
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is one of the first books I teach for a Literature course, and the work is rich for its moral implications,…
Kant and the Disease of Reason
Have you been following the science? I mean science as collective knowledge, not sanctified opinion. Expert knowledge based on the judgement of those who know subject to…
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…
Ithacan Lament: A Verse Response to Nolan’s “Odyssey”
Awake, and reenchant our drug-dulled hearts, sweet muse; The West is washed away and cast upon a shore Where twisters of the truth conspire to abuse Your…
Agency and Moral Responsibility in Virgil’s Aeneid
It would be almost impossible to read Books one to four of Virgil’s Aeneid and not stop to consider, at least for a moment, the moral ambiguity…
The Power of the Tale
I work on behalf of two Dioceses in Northern Ontario, serving a publicly funded Catholic School Board. In the late 1990s, in an effort to grab the…
Pope Benedict XVI and the End Times
In an article entitled “The Pope and the Antichrist,”[1] Peter Thiel and Sam Wolfe demonstrated, through carefully chosen quotations, the validity of their main thesis announced from…
Peak Season
It’s peak season and we’ve not yet taken peep or peek At these leaves so soon- even in a week- to leave us. We’ve been people believing…
First Words of an Infant Bird
Rise, my little wings, so others can sing How they saw me flying out of this tree. Right now, as I look up at the sky I…
Mircea Eliade and the Eastern Theologians
Animated by a restless intellectual curiosity, the author of Traité d’histoire des religions (Patterns in Comparative Religion—1949) frequented most of the major intellectual circles of Europe and…
Street Preacher at The Odyssey
The Mennonite watches the enshadowed dark before them as it is reflected to him in the mirror over the bar. He turns to them. His eyes are…
From Fichte to Meursault: LinkedIn “Intellectual Taxidermy” and the Reflection in the Executioner’s Blade
Scrolling through LinkedIn recently feels like a bad trip, and it sent me reaching for an old guilty pleasure from my philosophy undergrad days: Johann Gottlieb Fichte's…
Managerialism, Technological Society, and the Transformation of Political Rule: Burnham as a Corrective to Schmitt
The transformation of political order in the modern world cannot be understood solely through the traditional categories of monarchy, aristocracy, democracy, or even bourgeois liberalism. The rise…
The Future
This is the ninth year of regret. Luminous decay. Still thinking small — Cinnamon. Feet. Horses. Pink lobes. Graves of silence on bones sing, not All children…