What We’re Reading
Mark David Hall, Who’s Afraid of Christian Nationalism? Many terms have popped up over the years and decades simply meant to smear political opponents. No term has…
Gulliver’s Travels, Misanthropy, and Satire on The Optimistic Curmudgeon Podcast
Our editor Paul Krause sat down Dr. Joshua Herring, host of The Optimistic Curmudgeon, to talk about Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels, and how to understand the book as…
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Lee Durkee, Stalking Shakespeare. Lee Durkee’s memoir and exposé in the art history of painting Shakespeare is a fun, intoxicating, and, at times, shocking read. We all…
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Marjorie Garber, Shakespeare in Bloomsbury. The Bloomsbury Group is a famous collection of English professors, intellectuals, and writers who rivaled The Inklings among the great communities of…
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Joshua Zeitz, Lincoln’s God. Abraham Lincoln’s religious beliefs are always something of an anomaly. Some people, very deceitfully and misleadingly, like to parade Lincoln was an “unbeliever,”…
A Christmas Carol Reflection
May Christmas be a time of good cheer for you, your family, your loved ones. During this ingathering of family and friends, stories are usually shared about…
The Unreliable Narrators
The Unreliable Narrators is a podcast by Sophia Belloncle and Raymond Dokupil. Sophia is also a Senior Writer for VOEGELINVIEW and Raymond a periodic contributor. The podcast…
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Russell Kirk, The Politics of Prudence. Russell Kirk is one of the most recognized names in “conservative” intellectual circles. A new volume of his 1993 collection of…
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Thomas E. Ricks, Churchill & Orwell: The Fight for Freedom. Few names ring as triumphantly over the twentieth century as Winston Churchill and George Orwell. Churchill, as we…
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Antonia Fraser, Lady Caroline Lamb: A Free Spirit. Lady Caroline Lamb is a notorious and famous woman for lovers of Romantic poetry—she is remembered as one of…
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Peter Moore, Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. We are all familiar with those immortal words of the Declaration of Independence, “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit…
What We’re Reading: July 2023
Spencer Klavan, How to Save the West. Spencer Klavan, son of the famous writer Andrew Klavan, has produced an important but flawed book regarding the crises of…
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Kate Cooper, Queens of a Fallen World. Kate Cooper, one of the best classicists currently living (and former student of the eminent Peter Brown), has just published…