1. Voegelin presented himself as someone who knew his business and based on a solid conviction that Greek philosophy is the foundation of political science: the lecture materials were presented from this coherent starting point.
2. Devotion to truth as a desire to communicate it to students illumined every lecture and discussion, with the exploration of questions constantly reflecting the tension…
Professor Ellis Sandoz, the Hermann Moyse, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Louisiana State University and Director of the Eric Voegelin Institute for American Renaissance Studies, was born in 1931, a descendent of Swiss immigrants who came to Louisiana in 1829. He attended and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1951 and a Master of Arts degree in…
In my previous essay about Eric Voegelin, I wrote how Voegelin became a model of thinking devoid of ideological rant in the student’s quest for the true, the beautiful, and the good. One of those students was Ellis Sandoz, who in turn became a master teacher himself in the mold of Eric Voegelin. In his chapter on Ellis Sandoz in…
Give Me Liberty: Studies in Constitutionalism and Philosophy. Ellis Sandoz. St. Augustine’s Press, 2013.
Ellis Sandoz’s Give Me Liberty: Studies in Constitutionalism and Philosophy is a collection of nine essays: four about American history and politics, four about the philosophy of Eric Voegelin, and a concluding essay about liberty. Two of the essays have been previously published elsewhere – one about…
Give Me Liberty: Studies in Constitutionalism and Philosophy. Ellis Sandoz. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine Press, 2013.[1]
“And I too am a painter.”[2] Montesquieu invokes these apocryphal words of Correggio to remind the reader that though many have written on the topic of the “spirit of the laws,” his own contribution is not without “genius.” Maybe, just maybe, it might make…
At first glance, Eric Voegelin’s contribution to the discipline of Political Science appears negligible when compared to other European émigré scholars of the same period, such as Theodor Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Herbert Marcuse, Hans Morgenthau, and Leo Strauss. Over time the works of these thinkers have become mainstreamed in American Political Science with their legacies preserved by their students who…
This video is an informal Independence Day luncheon talk at University Baptist Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in observation of July 4th, 2014, by Ellis Sandoz.
Liberty under Law: The Anglo-American Experience from Ron Srigley on Vimeo.
Ellis Sandoz and the Foundations of American Liberty
To a considerable extent, Voegelin was led to prefer such words as “reality” and “divine reality” to more popular ones like “truth” and “God” because the latter were so abused that they had lost their original meanings in the world Voegelin lived. In his Autographical Reflections, Voegelin took a whole chapter to discuss…
It was a day in early September 2012. I went to see a friend at All Sages Bookstore, perhaps the most popular bookshop among intellectuals in Beijing. A few small black noticeboards were placed at the door. On them were the new titles and authors the bookstore recommended to the readers. On the middle one was written, in Chinese: Ellis…
The Constitution of the United States, in its Article VI “Supremacy Clause,” announces itself and laws made pursuant thereto to be the “supreme Law of the Land” in the United States, “and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.” This is the root meaning…
Inaugural Message from Ellis Sandoz 
God is Not Just the Good, as Plato Claimed But Love 
What Enlightenment, Exactly? 
What is a Miracle? 
New Political Religions, or An Analysis of Modern Terrorism 
Eric Voegelin as Master Teacher 
The Irish Dialogue with Eric Voegelin 
The Collected Works: The Drama of Humanity (Volume 33) 
“A Cow Is Just a Cow”: George Grant and Eric Voegelin on the United States 
The Life of the Scholar 
Conservative Liberal Education? 
The State of American Liberal Education These Days 
Interdisciplinary Notes Toward a Definition of “Crisis Leadership” 
Ya ne vernus’: Toward a Kazakhstani Lake Kitëzh 
We Can Measure Educational Value in Words 
Scientific Higher Education in America 
Should a Liberal Education Include the Study of Law? 
Funding the Forecasting Failures of Political Science 
Eric Voegelin’s “On Classical Studies” 
Tilo Schabert’s Lecture “The Biggest Challenge of Our Time?” 
