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VOEGELINVIEW is the online arts and humanities journal of the Eric Voegelin Society. We publish essays, reviews, interviews, poems, and occasional works of creative fiction dealing with the great questions of the human condition and experience, the humanities as a source of wisdom, and, of course, the life and thought of Eric Voegelin. We exist as a journal of cultural and intellectual criticism, education, and humanistic renewal with a commitment to the politics of liberty, self-governance, free speech and free expression, freedom of religion, and democratic renewal. In the words of the Eric Voegelin Society, our mission is to be “an educational organization devoted to the revitalization of teaching and understanding of Eric Voegelin’s work and fundamental expressions of human civilization in art, literature, science, and politics.”

WHO WE ARE
Editor-in-Chief: Paul Krause. He is a writer, classicist, and podcaster. Educated at Baldwin Wallace University, Yale, and the University of Buckingham (UK) where he studied with Sir Roger Scruton, he is a frequent contributor on the arts, classics, and philosophy to numerous newspapers, magazines, and journals. His books include Finding Arcadia: Wisdom, Truth, and Love in the Classics (Academica Press, 2023) and The Odyssey of Love: A Christian Guide to the Great Books (Wipf and Stock, 2021). You can follow him on Twitter @paul_jkrause.
Book Review Editor: John von Heyking. A Professor of Political Science at the University of Lethbridge in Canada, John is author and editor of several books, including The Form of Politics: Aristotle and Plato on Friendship (McGill-Queen’s, 2016) and Comprehensive Judgment and Absolute Selflessness: Winston Churchill on Politics as Friendship (St. Augustine’s, 2018).

 

Senior Writers
Filip Bakardzhiev is an Assistant Editor of VoegelinView and a writer on a variety of subjects relating to the humanities. Educated in law at King’s College, London and Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, and philosophy at the University of Buckingham, his main interests include the arts, classics, philosophy, and history. He has a specialist interest in the field of the Philosophy of History, Horror, and military history. You can follow him on Twitter: @FBakardzhiev.

Sophia Belloncle teaches Latin, English literature, and Rhetoric at a classical school in Detroit, Michigan. She also co-hosts a culture and literature podcast, the Unreliable Narrators Podcast.

 

Sarah Chew is an Assistant Editor of VoegelinView and an English and Philosophy student, and University Fellow, at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. She is interested in the intersection of faith, philosophy, and culture.

 

Prerita Govil is a graduate student and Barry Scholar at the University of Oxford. She recently graduated from American University, where she earned her BA in Political Theory. Her interests include comparative political philosophy, especially focused on Ancient Greek and Indian thought, as well as comparative theology. You can follow her on Twitter: @prerita_g.

 

Sarah Reardon teaches at a classical Christian school in Philadelphia and is pursuing an MFA at the University of St. Thomas in Houston. She has worked as Managing Editor for Front Porch Republic, and her writing has appeared in First Things, Plough, Ekstasis Magazine, and elsewhere.

 

Jesse Russell is an Assistant Professor of English at Georgia Southwestern State University. He has contributed to a wide variety of academic journals, including Political Theology, Politics and Religion, and New Blackfriars. He also writes for numerous public journals and magazines, including University Bookman, Law & Liberty, and Front Porch Republic. He is the author of The Political Christopher Nolan: Liberalism and the Anglo-American Vision.

 

Contributing Editors

Richard Cocks is a Professor of Philosophy at SUNY Oswego. He is an editor and regular contributor at the Orthosphere and has been published at The Brussels Journal, The Sydney Traditionalist Forum, People of Shambhala, The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal and the University Bookman.

 

Pedro Blas González is a Professor of Philosophy at Barry University. He is author of several books, the latest being Philosophical Perspective on Cinema (Lexington Books, 2022), Ortega’s ‘The Revolt of the Masses’ and the Triumph of the New Man (Algora Publishing, 2007), Unamuno: a Lyrical Essay (Floricanto Press, 2007), Human Existence as Radical Reality: Ortega y Gasset’s Philosophy of Subjectivity (Paragon House, 2005) and Fragments: Essays in Subjectivity, Individuality and Autonomy (Algora Publishing, 2005).

David Walsh is the Chair Board Member of VOEGELINVIEW, President of the Eric Voegelin Society, and Professor of Political Science at Catholic University of America. He is the author of a three-volume study of modernity: After Ideology: Recovering the Spiritual Foundations of Freedom (Harper/Collins, 1990), The Growth of the Liberal Soul (Missouri, 1997), and The Modern Philosophical Revolution: The Luminosity of Existence (Cambridge, 2008). His latest book is Politics of the Person and as the Politics of Being.
Assistant Managing Editors
Filip Bakardzhiev, Sarah Chew, Darrell Falconburg, Muen Liu, João Silva, Sarah Tillard
Poets in Residence
Harold Jones & Micah Veillon
Hollywood Commentary 
Tyler Hummel 
Past Editors-in-Chiefs 
Fritz Wagner (2009-13); Ronald D. Srigley (2013-16); Lee Trepanier (2016-21)

Eric Voegelin (1901-85) was a German-American political philosopher who fled Europe in 1938 when the Nazis entered Austria. He spent most of his career at Louisiana State University, the University of Munich, and the Hoover Institute at Stanford University. Voegelin abhorred the political violence of the twentieth century and he wrote about the need of constitutionalism, responsible citizenship, and political and economic freedom as antidotes. He often cited the United States as an exemplar of these values. While published works within VOEGELINVIEW need not examine Voegelin’s writings, they should embody the spirit of Voegelin’s work and outlook: particularly its realism, emphasis on freedom and anti-totalitarianism, defense and promotion of western civilization and its ideals in art, culture, and religion, as well as the promotion of intellectual diversity and freedom of speech that is essential to the advancement of the human spirit and human knowledge. VOEGELINVIEW, therefore, exists as a public journal of humanities education and cultural criticism for the safeguarding and advancement of a free society and free people through the wisdom of culture, as well as a journal where writings and discussions about Eric Voegelin, his life, thought, and relevance to the modern world are welcome.
VOEGELINVIEW also provides announcements for the Eric Voegelin Society as well as resources for those who wish to learn more about Eric Voegelin. A list of Voegelin’s collected works, excerpts from his writings, and audio and video recordings are available on this website. It also provides a list of other organizations, relevant websites, and archival links about Eric Voegelin.
The Eric Voegelin Society © publishes VOEGELINVIEW and has partnerships with Louisiana State University’s Eric Voegelin Institute, the University of Wisconsin’s Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy, and Nicholls State University’s Nicholls Foundation. The Eric Voegelin Society is an association of scholars and individuals across academia with an interest in, and direct work on, the life and thought of Eric Voegelin. Most members are political scientists, political theorists, and philosophers by training but the society is not exclusive to those trained in the aforementioned disciplines. Our members are found in universities and research centers around the world and also in media and journalism.

HOW TO SUPPORT US
With support of the Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy, the University of Wisconsin Foundation – a 501(c)(3) organization (EIN 39-0743975) – receives donations by credit card on behalf of the journal. If you would like to give a gift now, please go here and make sure you have selected the VoegelinView fund: secure.supportuw.org/give
You can alternatively support the Eric Voegelin Society which is also a 501(c)(3) organization (Tax ID 45-5508836). The Eric Voegelin Society, which publishes VOEGELINVIEW, can be supported through Nicholls State University by going here: https://nichollsfoundation.org/donate-now/
Make sure to write “Eric Voegelin Society” in the comments when providing a donation by credit card and “VoegelinView” if you wish your donation to go to the support of the journal. Alternatively contact Dr. David Whitney at [email protected] for instructions of how to make a contribution by check.

CONTACT US
Potential contributors should consult our submissions guidelines and our policy on questions of copyright and publication. If you have questions, please email our editor-in-chief, Paul Krause, at [email protected].

AFFILIATED SCHOLARS & ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Alan Baily (Stephen F. Austin University, Texas); Joshua Bowman (Heidelberg University, Ohio); Luigi Bradizza (Salve Regina University, Rhode Island); Claudia Franziska Brühwiler (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland); Richard Cocks (SUNY Oswego, New York); Colin Cordner (Carleton University, Canada); David Deavel (University of St. Thomas, Minnesota); Spasimir Domaradski (Lazarski University, Poland); James A. Fiste (Central Michigan University); Kirk Fitzpatrick (Southern Utah University); Khalil M. Habib (Hillsdale College, Michigan); Nathan Harter, (Christopher Newport University, Virginia); Grant N. Havers (Trinity Western University, Canada); Rodolfo Hernandez (Texas State University); Kimberly Hurd Hale (Coastal Carolina University, South Carolina); Promise Hsu (Beijing-based independent journalist and scholar); Ostap Kushnir (Lazarski University, Poland); Francois Lecoutre (University of Cergy-Pontoise, France); Brickey LeQuire (independent scholar); David Livingstone (Vancouver Island University, Canada); Mary Li Ma (Calvin College, Michigan); Sara MacDonald (University of Huron College, Canada); Molly Brigid McGrath (Assumption University, Massachusetts); Steven F. McGuire (Villanova University, Pennsylvania); Jeremy Mhire (Louisiana Tech University); John P. Moran (Kennesaw State University, Georgia); Galen Murphy (MacEwan University, Canada); Todd Myers (Grossmont College, California); Lynita Newswander (University of South Dakota); Jonathan Ratcliffe (Australian National University); Nayeli Riano (Georgetown University); Juilanne M. Romanello (University of Tulsa); Scott Robinson (Schreiner University); Luke Sheahan (Duquesne University, Pennsylvania); Sean Steel (University of Calgary, Canada); David Whitney (Nicholls State University, Louisiana); Jingcai Ying (York University, Canada)
Eric Voegelin Society Board of Advisors
Richard Avaramenko (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Harald Bergbauer (Munich School of Politics, Germany)
Macon Boczek (Kent State University, Ohio)
Lee Cheek (East Georgia State College)
Barry Cooper (University of Calgary, Canada)
Jack D. Elliot (Mississippi State University)
Michael Federici (Middle Tennessee State University)
Neal Fuller (independent scholar)
Jürgen Gebhardt (University of Erlangen-Nürenberg, Germany)
Thierry Gontier (Université Jean Moulin – Lyon 3, France)
Thomas Heilke (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Michael Henry (St. John’s University, New York)
John von Heyking (University of Lethbridge, Canada)
Daniel J. Mahoney (Assumption College, Massachusetts)
Nicoletta Scotti Muth (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy)
William Petropulos (University of Munich, Germany)
Brendan Purcell (Notre Dame University, Australia)
Gustavo Adolfo Santos (School of Citizenship and Public Management, Brazil)
Tilo Schabert (University of Erlangen, Germany)
Ronald D. Srigley (Laurentian University & Humber College, Canada)
James Stoner (Louisiana State University)
Arpad Szakolczai (University College Cork, Ireland)
Lee Trepanier (Samford University, Alabama)
David Walsh (Catholic University of America, Washington D.C.)
Chair of Board of Advisors: David Walsh
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