Reflections on Stanley Kubrick: Spring 2025
VOEGELINVIEW is pleased to announce that in spring 2025, we will be publishing an assortment of essays and articles dealing with the filmography of Stanley Kubrick, exploring…
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John Milton, Paradise Lost. The greatest epic of the English language, Milton’s Paradise Lost is a grand tapestry of humanity caught in the storm clouds of the…
First Things Podcast: “The Truth is in the Classics”
On November 14, First Things published a podcast episode with VOEGELINVIEW editor Paul Krause on his book Finding Arcadia: Wisdom, Truth, and Love in the Classics. The…
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Dante, Paradiso. So far this year, I have had the privilege of leading a class through Dante’s Divine Comedy. Approaching the end of the epic pilgrimage, Paradiso…
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Charles Dickens, Great Expectations. Dickens is the Victorian-era author. His works are now the stuff of cultural legend and treasure, with numerous works having been made for…
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Dante, The Inferno. A great joy and hidden benefit of teaching is when you get to revisit great texts because they are part of your teaching load…
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Kim Paffenroth and Maggie Ann Labinski (Eds.), Augustine and Gender. Few figures in Christianity loom as large over the history of Western civilization as Saint Augustine. One…
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Charles J. Kim, Jr., The Way of Humility: St. Augustine’s Theology of Preaching. Few figures in western history are as important and influential as Saint Augustine. Author…
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Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America. Tocqueville’s classic Democracy in America is a timely read and is as important now as when it was written. When asked…
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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…