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 Stopped 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.”…
Singing Christmas with Rankin/Bass
Growing up, the 25 Days of Christmas on ABC Family was an essential part of the Christmas holiday. Among my favorite films that were often shown were…
The Uses of Spiritual Memory
Does art and literature matter? In our age of vandalism and philistinism, it seems not. Activism in the name of the latest leftwing fad, “decolonizing” art and…
Napoleon Undressed: Ridley Scott’s Imagination Rules the Screen
Napoleon Bonaparte is the one dictator that the world has a love-hate relationship. More than petty kings and emperors of the past, Napoleon forcibly seized political power…
To Kill the King
On a chilly January afternoon, King Charles I appeared before the black-draped scaffold that had been hastily constructed just for him. The King of England who had…
Editor’s Commentary
Like many of you, the October 7 attacks in Israel by Hamas terrorist shocked me and much of the world. Having resided in Jerusalem for a brief…