Metanoia from the Extreme
Walk Away: When the Political Left Turns Right. Lee Trepanier and Grant Havers, eds. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019. Perhaps not since the Cold War have public…
Caught Between East and West: Solzhenitsyn’s American Exile
Lee Trepanier's interview with Daniel J. Mahoney, Solzhenitsyn scholar and author of the “Foreword” to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Between Two Millstones: Book 2: Exile in America, 1978-1994, translated…
Eric Voegelin in the News
Some recent references to Eric Voegelin in the news are below. First Things, "Gnostic Politics." First Things, "A Vivid Sense of the Real." NewStatesman, "The Prophets of…
Cana Academy Interview with Lee Trepanier
Cana Academy's interview with Lee Trepanier is available here.
Reflections on the Capitol Riots
It is strange to read back what I had written four years ago and see how little has changed in our political climate except for the cast…
The Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Ecumene
The rise of Asia, especially China, has raised a unique challenge for western political scientists in trying to understand and predict whether civilizational conflict and war will…
Eric Voegelin’s Asian Political Thought
Eric Voegelin’s Asian Political Thought. Lee Trepanier, ed.. Lexington Books, 2020 As humans, we have always been confronted with a perennial question, i.e., how to engage…
Eric Voegelin and Asia
Predictions of the West’s decline and the rise of Asia have been a recurrent theme in academia, policy studies, and journalism since the emergence of Japan as…
Eric Voegelin’s Asian Political Thought
Eric Voegelin’s Asian Political Thought. Lee Trepanier, ed. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2020. China and the Mongols, in the light of Voegelin’s thought, are the focus of…
2021 VoegelinView Themes
Our themes for 2021 are below! Please feel free to submit proposals about any topic, but note that preference would be given to those works that address…
Ivan Illich
Ivan Illich (1926-2002) was a one-time Catholic priest, Austrian philosopher, and anarchist social critic of various forms of professional authority. His foremost critique of modern culture was…
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