Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights is considered a passionate love story, a “tale of love that is stronger than death,” centering around the generational story of Catherine Earnshaw,…
Alessandro Barbero. Dante: A Life. Translated by Allan Cameron. New York: Pegasus Books, 2022. Dante Alighieri is the most famous Italian of all time. He is…
Social Justice & Subsidiarity: Luigi Taparelli and the Origins of Modern Catholic Social Thought. Thomas Behr. Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2019. “In the…
It is said that the Oresteia is the ancient world’s Divine Comedy, with some justification. Originally a four-part play, only three pieces of the movement survive: Agamemnon,…
2021 has come and gone and a new year now calls us forth. First, I want to thank Lee Trepanier for his years of service as editor…
Bonaventure’s Aesthetics: The Delight of the Soul in Its Ascent into God. Thomas McKenna. Lanham: Lexington Press, 2020. In the pantheon of great Christian thinkers, everyone…
In 430 A.D., with the Vandals laying siege to the city of Hippo, Augustine of Hippo died with Count Boniface by his side. The Roman general was…
Hello friends. Let me introduce myself. I’m Paul Krause. I’ll be the new head editor at VoegelinView as Lee transitions out. Our official transition date is January…
Western civilization is back in vogue, or, at least, is starting to have defenders again in the midst of civilizational malaise, crisis, and desecration. But what is…
Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music. Alex Ross. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. Friedrich Nietzsche wrote that Richard Wagner “sums up…
Richard Wagner’s grand operatic drama The Ring of the Nibelung is rightly celebrated as one of the finest accomplishments of modern art. The story that Wagner tells,…
The liberal arts have long been suffering in academia and education more generally. Chants for the ending of Western liberal arts for new inclusionary material, dwindling humanities…
Books have been under assault for a long time. Mass media and television, as Ray Bradbury imagined with dystopian prophecy, was just getting the fire started. Then…
Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece. Paul Cartledge. New York: Abrams Press, 2020. In the annals of ancient Greece, Athens and Sparta looms large. Athens…
Luc Besson’s now cult classic The Fifth Element gave us a retro-futuristic take on the apocalypse and messianism which was suffused with Christian motifs and symbolism. In…