The Gothic Inversion: Why Anne Rice’s Vampires Can Lead Young Adults Into Deeper Faith
Growing up Catholic, I always felt that I was strange because I secretly had a love for all things spooky and gothic. I was especially drawn to…
The Mother of All Living Names Names
Here are cleavers, she said, twayblade, bittersweet, swamp saxifrage; over there sprout horehound, goat’s rue, turtlehead, wild columbine. Next are cheeses (she laughed), milkwort, cracker-crumbs, sweet pepperbush…
Heaven is My Witness
The Woman of Colour, an epistolary novel published anonymously in 1808, is unique, so far as we know, amongst novels of its time in having a mixed-race…
A Persisting Lesson in Hard Work, Friendship, and Leadership
Donald Hodel was the fourth United States Secretary of Energy and the 45th Secretary of the Interior, serving in those two cabinet posts during the Reagan Administration…
ChatGPT Meets Rudolf Steiner
In Die Philosophie der Freiheit [The Philosophy of Freedom] (1894) Rudolf Steiner argues that freedom involves knowing the basis of our actions. If we don’t know our…
Wandering Amidst the Llano Estacado
Across this dashboard's dusty glass, the modern world fades out, Transformed into vistas of flat terrain that breed a quiet doubt. I drive this truck past saltbush…
The State of English Nature: The Origins of Rights and Liberty in Locke and Burke
Published a year after the Glorious Revolution of 1688, John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government laid out a conceptual defense of individual rights, legislative supremacy, and limited…
Bears in Sicily
"But in God's kingdom the presence of the greatest does not depress the small. Redeemed Man is still man. Story, fantasy, still go on, and should go…
The Cover Stories
‘Well may we walk in blacks, but not complain.’ (John Donne, To the Praise of the Dead, and the Anatomy) The term “cover story” has two…
Eric Voegelin and Alfred Schutz on the Atomic Bomb
One of the numerous elements that make up the polycrisis in our times definitely is the threat of nuclear holocaust. As an American expert succinctly summarizes the…
The Speed of Days
We are chained in this life, this everyday life. Rules, obligations, and responsibilities are our bounds. Yet they are all fleeting - noise, anxiety, and the speed…
Ibn Khaldun, Petrarch, and the Fate of Civilizations
Societies rise, fracture, and rebuild. We see it in history. We feel it now. We live small versions of it in our own lives. The pattern is…
Euphoria and Symposia
Euphoria and Symposia by Kieran Bonner addresses the ‘grey zone’ of health and illness, illustrated through the examples of drinking and thinking - two activities that can…
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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…
Reflections on a River
But this, though lost to the sight, was retained in the memory - St. Augustine, The Confessions I headed down that path as if would lead me…