Introduction Like a shape-shifter, global communism and its intellectual ideals have shown a remarkable resiliency and an ability to adapt to various cultures. The fall of communism…
To begin with a simple point, one basic insight of Tocqueville is that things are always getting better and worse. Thus, it is hardly surprising that Tocqueville…
The promise of order and justice after the collapse of the Soviet Union has not been fulfilled in Putin’s Russia, with no political symbol emerging for her…
The Investiture Controversy and the Contraction of Reality The dispute that began in the conflict between Gregory VII (d. 1085) and Henry IV (d. 1108) known as…
A Preliminary: Voegelin's "Political Ideas" In the introduction to the History of Political Ideas, Voegelin writes, "the function proper of order is the creation of a shelter…
One of the most interesting theoretical problems, however, which indeed is at the basis of [the German churches' cooperation with the Nazi government]—the intellectual slovenliness and sloppiness,…