How Shakespeare Would Have Loved Us and How We Love Shakespeare
William Shakespeare is widely considered the “greatest” of England’s many poets and writers, a dramatist whose works stir the heart and mind in both its language and…
Shakespeare and the Good Life
William Shakespeare is the immortal bard of the English language, the great dramatist of the human soul on the human stage. Shakespeare is recorded as having been…
East of Appomattox: Where Old Times Are Still Not Forgotten
One of the great joys of Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee is that when I am out hiking the mountainous landscape of the Appalachian and…
Editor’s Commentary
March was a month of pilgrimage for many, culminating in the celebration of Easter, to which we also participated with a wide selection of essays, reviews, and…
Passion and Exodus
Throughout the Christian world, except in Germanic-language countries, Easter is known as Passover. The Passover, of course, is a Jewish holy festival—it marks the deliverance of the…
Botticelli’s Renaissance
What is the Renaissance? Everyone has heard of the term, but few seem to understand what it was. To some, the Renaissance marks the turning away from…
Editor’s Commentary
VOEGELINVIEW continues down the path of increased readership, growth, and notability as we are now in the midst of the season of pilgrimage. We have experienced our…
Fugitive Love and the Runaway Heart
The exceptional brilliance of his works, his contradictory nature, his desire to bring together faith and intelligence, classical and Christian civilization, the old wine and the new…
The Almost-Chosen President
Abraham Lincoln is America’s greatest and most important president. Although a contrarian might like to assert George Washington, himself a great president, the honest reality is that…
The Odyssey of Soul from Plotinus to Augustine
We who live today take for granted the notion that Odysseus was a noble figure, a sort of archetype for the soul’s yearning for home. This hasn’t…
Editor’s Commentary
With 2023 behind us and the new year opening for a great beginning, it is with pleasure that I get to announce to our readers that we…
Hemingway and Me: Or How I Learned to Love Hemingway and Stop Worrying About His Hopelessness
I did not always like Ernest Hemingway. In some ways I still don’t. Among the post-Great War American writers, I consider F. Scott Fitzgerald and John Steinbeck…
The Godfather of Permanent Things
Russell Kirk stands alongside a pantheon of conservative thinkers and writers from the past century. His The Conservative Mind, now 70 years old, was the magnum opus…
VoegelinView Year in Review
2023 has capped off an important year of transformation for VOEGELINVIEW. Our change into a public journal of the arts and humanities, cultural and intellectual criticism, and…
The Spiritual Architecture of Handel’s “Messiah”
George Frederic Handel is one of the most recognizable names in classical music, even if most people only know his name for the Hallelujah Chorus of “Messiah.”…