Punishment, Indignation, and Moral Education in Dante
Leo Strauss’s reflections on punishment in The Divine Comedy, found in the transcripts of his lectures on Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil, draw attention to a subtle…
Your Old Men Will Dream Dreams
Regard that old man sleeping over there His nasal snores, his silver strands of hair That streak in patches all along his face And that stale smell…
Why is AI the culmination of Modern Gnosticism?
I consider Eric Voegelin’s “Modern Gnosticism” thesis the crowning point of his work. I know that the thesis is the most controversial part of his work, and…
A Roman World at War
“The corpse was lying where Caesar fell, covered ignominiously in the blood of the man who had marched as far west as Britain and the Ocean and…
Joseph Joubert: The Cursed Desire
I came to Joseph Joubert fairly recently, the kind of encounter that makes you wonder immediately why it took so long. He is not a companion of…
The Inventive Wickedness of the Ultimate Tyranny: Leo Strauss vs. Carl Schmitt
Amongst the strange bedfellows of history, a most unique relationship occurred in the immediate lead up to the rise of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany. This relationship…
Cicero on the Rostra
The flies buzz above the decaying hands, Whose subtle fingers once etched the republic’s last defense. The noble head, with pin pierced tongue, demands the shame of…
Faust and the Confrontation with Darkness
Have you ever felt paralysed, heartbroken, or caught wagering with the devil himself? If so, you may relate to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's protagonist in his episodic…
The Necessity of English in Postcolonial African Literature
In 2005, Moroccan author Laila Lalami published her first novel, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, in the United States. In the months that followed, she learned that…
At History’s Brink
If there is one movie that could successfully be converted into a play, “The Brink of War” is it. The film opens the way it ends and…
Second Realities in the Machine Age: A Structural Rereading of Eric Voegelin
The modern world has become difficult to understand on its own terms. Since 2008, Western institutions have drifted into symbolic governance, managerial abstraction, and large‑scale projects that…
Not to Worry
Tomorrow will worry about itself. - Matthew 6:34 It’s not worth worrying if worse is to come, And though it’s easier said than done I, for…