Boston Marathon Bombers and the Pathology of Terrorism
A great deal will be said and written about the bombs set off this month at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, the terrible casualties that…
A great deal will be said and written about the bombs set off this month at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, the terrible casualties that…
Are Things Going to Get Worse? Countless articles have appeared touching on the personality of President Barack Obama without giving a particularly satisfactory account of his actions…
The 28th annual meeting of the Eric Voegelin Society was held, for the first time, on the campus of Louisiana State University–an appropriate venue, where Voegelin held…
The example of Obamacare elsewhere in VoegelinView may be found Scott Segrest's essay, "Richard Rorty and the Core of Progressivism," which deals with the presuppositions and programs…
Posterity may know we have not loosely through silence permitted things to pass away as in a dream. – Richard Hooker After the murderous events of…
Theresa Alverne Hubley Sandoz Died peacefully on June 25, 2011, at her home in Baton Rouge after a prolonged illness. She was a beloved wife, mother and…
For some months now, we have been linking a few of our book ads to amazon.com. We recently learned that Amazon would pay VoegelinView a referral fee…
Professor Thomas Hollweck, 68, has passed away after a long illness. A student of Eric Voegelin in Munich, he came to the United States and made his…
In October of 1992, I decided to visit my son who was then living in Oakland, California. Oakland is across the bay from San Francisco and I…
Watching TV You understand it was 1960 and I was a nineteen year old undergraduate. To give you the setting: Our class was held in the auditorium…
We have met the enemy and they are ours. —Oliver Hazard Perry, letter to General Harrison after the victory over the British fleet at Lake Erie, 1813.…
What Every President Needs to Know I was talking to the plumber, "Oleg" by name, and when I hung up I looked at the caller ID on…
Or, Is it Worthwhile to Psychoanalyze Politicians? There was a time, not too long ago, when amateur psychoanalysis was in the toolbox of students, intellectuals, and even…
Scoop. Evelyn Waugh. London and New York: Chapman & Hall, Penguin Books, 1938. Movie comedies do not age well. Things that seemed funny 60 or 70…
This week the machinery of the US Congress will grind furiously and may extrude a healthcare sausage that is nothing less than a Soviet style economic and…