From the Multiversity Cave: Plato and Periagoge
What can Plato teach us about higher education today? At first glance, it would appear very little in an age of standardized assessment, digitized curricula, and competency-based…
Egalitarianism
Egalitarianism is movements within social and political philosophy that can be either foundational or distributional in nature. Foundational egalitarianism describes people as equal beings by nature; distributional…
On Voegelin: Modernity and Gnosticism
Eric Voegelin (1901-85) is often portrayed as one of the severest critics of modernity–its belief in human reason’s ability to understand and convey the fundamental structures of…
The Postmodern Subject
In the previous chapter, McGuire illuminates how Voegelin’s analysis of Aristotle shows that ethics and politics are to be based on one’s noetic participation in an nonobjective,…
The U.S. Foreign Policy Establishment’s Perception of Poland (1980-1981)
With the declassification of secret material after the collapse of the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union, scholars are able to determine how accurate were the perceptions…
After the Cold War: U.S.-Ukrainian Relations (1991-2000)
Introduction This article is to examine the bilateral relationship between the U.S. and Ukraine at the end of the Cold War. During this period, the U.S. was…
The Special Relationship: United States-Russia
A special relationship between the United States and Russia existed during the period 2001–2002, after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States. However, this…
Nationalism and Religion in Post-Soviet Russian Civil Society: An Inquiry into the 1997 Law “On Freedom of Conscience”
What will be the contribution of the Russian Orthodox Church to the creation of a civil society in post-Soviet Russia? Much depends on whether the Russian Orthodox…
The Russian Empire (1721-1917)
The Russian Empire, which lasted from 1721 to 1917, spanned an enormous territory of almost 14 million square miles (36 million sq km) across the eastern portion…
The Russian Empire: The Amber Room
The original Amber Room was in the Catherine Palace: it was a chamber with amber panels backed with gold leaf and mirrors. It was created from 1701…
The Russian Empire: Major Accomplishments
The Russian Empire was one of the largest empires in the world, spanning almost 14 square miles (36 million sq km) across eastern portion of Europe and…
What You Need to Know About Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Physician, playwright, philander, short story author, and prison reform advocate, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904) lived a life full of paradoxes. He had a religious education but became…
The Problem of Stupidity in Chekhov’s Three Sisters
One of the continual challenges that confront critics of Chekhov’s Three Sisters is to locate a theme that unites the various elements in the play. The initial…
Consciousness, Memory, and History in Tolstoy’s War and Peace
The Second Epilogue Although nearly all have admired Tolstoy’s War and Peace since its publication, critics have been divided over whether the novel has an organizational principle.…
The Politics and Experience of Active Love in The Brothers Karamazov
Early reception of The Brothers Karamazov ranged from praise to condemnation, with most of the criticism and debate focused on Book V’s The Tale of the Grand…