The Alcibiades of Our Time
We now have two presidential candidates each appealing to their bases with head-fakes to an ever-diminishing center. Donald Trump has tapped into the political, economic, and cultural…
Mob Rule and Moral Language
What explains Donald Trump’s appeal, especially among the white working class? The various theories that have been offered – being economically left behind in a globalized, knowledge-based…
Gnosticism
Gnosticism is an extreme religious sensibility from the early Christian era that has influenced twentieth century thinkers in their understanding of the modern world. Having its origins…
The Language of Politics Today: Donald Trump, Racism, and Sexism
How it is that Donald Trump, who has proudly proclaimed he's a racist and sexist, is the Republican nominee for the presidency? His misogynist comments about Megyn…
Grateful Acknowledgement to Ronald D. Srigley
The transfer of editorship at any publication, but especially VoegelinView, is an opportunity to say what has too often gone unsaid. That is, to express our gratitude…
Eric Voegelin on the Law as a Means and as an End for True Substantive Order
The Nature of the Law is Eric Voegelin’s comprehensive and systematic account of law as a mature thinker, when he realized that law’s historical existence is inextricably…
A Critique of Eric Voegelin’s Christianity
When Eric Voegelin published Order and History: I-III in the 1950s, Christian philosophers and theologians claimed him as one of their own. These first three volumes were…
Putin’s Russia: Power and Postmodernity
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice. Bill Browder. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015. Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns…
A Possible Paradigm for the Humanities in the University Today
In my essay, "The Place of the Humanities in the University Today," I reviewed some of the major critiques of the humanities and its subsequent failed strategies…
The Place of the Humanities in the University Today
The decline of the humanities in American higher education – literature, history, philosophy, classical studies, linguistics, and foreign languages – is most recently evident in the drop…
Marriage and the Marketplace in Jane Austen’s Emma and Mansfield Park
This chapter explores the adverse effects that the marketplace mentality has on social relationships in Jane Austen’s Emma and Mansfield Park.[1] With the ideology of the marketplace…
Eric Voegelin’s Contribution to American Political Science
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…
Plato’s Pupil: James M. Rhodes (February 24, 1940-January 23, 2015)
When I received an email from Maria McMahon about her father’s death, I was both shocked and sadden by the news, as I had no indication that…
Russian Political Symbols, Culture, and Civil Society
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 Antinomies of Dostoevsky’s Political Thought
Dostoevsky's Political Thought. Richard Avramenko and Lee Trepanier, eds. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013. Sainte Russie. Alain Besançon. Paris: Editions de Fallois, 2012. Dostoevsky’s Political Thought is a…