The Burkean Tradition of Strauss and Voegelin
Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin were scholars in the field of political philosophy, yet they did not have an explicit political teaching. They studied the great political philosophers of the past in order to learn lessons that might become living truths for us today. But Strauss and Voegelin did…
The Restoration of Tradition
The position this essay will attempt to illustrate, if not demonstrate, is that once lost or weakened the tradition of a society can be restored only by a creative and even radical reconstruction of the tradition itself. The problem to which we address ourselves is as complex as it…
Eric Voegelin: Meditation as Antidote to Gnosticism
“The death of the spirit is the price of progress. Nietzsche revealed this mystery of the Western apocalypse when he announced that God was dead and that He had been murdered. This Gnostic murder is constantly committed by the men who sacrifice God to civilization. The more fervently all…
34rd International Meeting of the Eric Voegelin Society, Boston 2018
34th International Meeting of THE ERIC VOEGELIN SOCIETY, 2018 American Political Science Association Meeting, August 30-September 2 Boston, MA David Walsh, Meeting Director [email protected] Dear Friends, I look forward to seeing you all in Boston, or as many of you as can make it, for our annual…
Self-Interest and Public Interest in Western Politics. Leif Lewin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Leif Lewin's book Self-Interest and Public Interest in Western Politics contains, as a main theme, an attack on public-choice theory. This theme, however, is not in any way revealed by the rather neutral title of the book, nor by the publisher's text on the back-cover, nor by…
A Varieties of Chinese Nationalisms and Their Implications on Religions
This volume is a collection of papers discussing “the origin, development, content, and implications of religion-state relations” in mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong (10). The lens of using nationalism in examining state-society-religion relations works as an overarching theme…
We believe this…
Since January 2017, some of us may have felt the urge to re-visit, either in our minds or physically, the National Mall in Washington, D.C., “to convince [ourselves] that nothing had changed other than that” Donald J. Trump is now in office (Roth, 2004, 5). And we may still…
The field of study delineated by the theory of law is among the most relevant of philosophic disciplines given the proliferation of both legislative judicial review and quasi-judicial administrative tribunals, but is also rather derivative, drawing heavily on more general philosophic positions such as positivism,…
Sojourns in the Western Twilight: Essays in Honor of Tom Darby is, as co-editors Robert C. Sibley and Janice Freamo state in the Introduction, an homage to Tom Darby (the much-loved Professor of Political Theory at Carleton…
Multiculturalism is among the ambivalences of our time. The word refers to the fact of ethnic, linguistic, and religious diversity in political communities. In this sense, it is a sociological category. What types of diversity are embraced in this factual account is…
The Burkean Tradition of Strauss and Voegelin 
The Life of the Scholar 
The Use of Force 
“A Cow Is Just a Cow”: George Grant and Eric Voegelin on the United States 
The Collected Works: The Drama of Humanity (Volume 33) 
Eric Voegelin as Master Teacher 
New Political Religions, or An Analysis of Modern Terrorism 
What is a Miracle? 
What Enlightenment, Exactly? 
God is Not Just the Good, as Plato Claimed But Love 
The Restoration of Tradition 
Eric Voegelin: Meditation as Antidote to Gnosticism 
Eric Voegelin’s Redemption of Modernity 
Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss in the Chinese-Speaking World 
On the Deaths of Plato and Eric Voegelin 
Eric Voegelin’s Philosophy and The Drama of Mankind 
Eric Voegelin on Order, History & Gnosticism 
No God on the Horizon? Voegelin, Buber, Bonhoeffer, and The Moment of Surrender 
Thinking about Technology 
Hobhouse and Leadership: A Consideration of Liberalism