Value, Conflict, and Order
Value, Conflict, and Order. Berlin, Hampshire, Williams, and the Realist Revival in Political Theory. Edward Hall. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Is the purpose of…
Wherefrom Does History Emerge?
Wherefrom Does History Emerge? Inquiries in Political Cosmogony. Tilo Schabert and John von Heyking, eds. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020. The premise of Wherefrom Does History Emerge?…
God, Philosophy, Universities. A Selective History of the Catholic Philosophical Tradition
God, Philosophy, Universities. A Selective History of the Catholic Philosophical Tradition. Alasdair MacIntyre. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. God, Philosophy, Universities traces the idea of…
Out of Joint. Power, Crisis, and the Rhetoric of Time
Out of Joint. Power, Crisis, and the Rhetoric of Time. Nomi Claire Lazar. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. Lazar explores how political rulers temporally frame…
A Political Philosophy of Conservatism
A Political Philosophy of Conservatism: Prudence, Moderation and Tradition. Ferenc Hörcher. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. A Political Philosophy of Conservatism focuses on the fourth cardinal…
Introduction to Political Science: Concepts, Methods, and Topics
For Instructors In an age where information is readily available, the textbook's role is not to provide that content to students but present it in such a…
What Americans Today Can Learn from the Russian Past: Lessons from Turgenev and Dostoevsky for American Hillbillies
National identity has been a preoccupation in the tradition of Russian political thought since Peter the Great (reigned 1682–1725), who led a cultural revolution in Russia that…
Weekly Reflections on Teaching Political Science
Below are weekly, short reflections of teaching an Introduction to Political Science course a few years ago. Week One: Syllabi & Assessment The first week of…
In Gratitude
Dear Friends & Readers: I want to thank you for reading and supporting VoegelinView this past five years since I became editor. Working on VoegelinView has been…
Medieval Dignity, Modern Education
In the conclusion of her review of David Walsh’s book, The Politics of the Person as the Politics of Being, Macon Boczek challenges the author’s assertion that…
Why Students Don’t Suffer
The best American colleges students are perhaps the most prepared, accomplished, and engaged students ever with stellar academic accomplishments and active civic engagement.[1] At the same time,…
What Can Political Science Learn from Literature?
Since the behavioral revolution in the 1960s, political science has increasingly defined itself as the empirical, quantifiable study of politics.[2] Modeled after the natural sciences, behavioralism is…
Socrates’ Homer in the Republic: Retaining the Poetic Past and Preparing for the Philosophic Future
Homer is acknowledged by Socrates as the educator of Hellas, “the most poetic of the poets and the first of tragedians” who provides the model around which…
Culture and History in Eric Voegelin and Christopher Dawson
In a time of secular ideology and positivist methodology, both Christopher Dawson and Eric Voegelin sought to recover the central role that religion and religious experience used…
Reflections on Russell Kirk
One hundred years ago was the birth of Russell Kirk (1918-94), one of the principal founders of the post-World War II conservative revival in the United States.[1]…