Why The Humanities Matter Today: In Defense of Liberal Education
Why The Humanities Matter Today: In Defense of Liberal Education. Lee Trepanier, ed. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2017. This book promises to tell the reader why the…
I’m Awake, Are You?
One of the latest fads in the university is being “woke”: a recognition of one’s privilege and therefore the need to empathize with those groups who have…
Eric Voegelin’s Contribution to Political Science
Compared to other European émigré scholars of the same period–Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Hannah Arendt, Hans Morgenthau, and Leo Strauss–Eric Voegelin’s contribution to the discipline of political…
Technology as the Oracle of Today
In the past people looked to religion or the arts for divine inspiration and a sense of wonder; today we look to technology, the gods of our…
Tradition v. Rationalism: Voegelin, Oakeshott, Hayek, and Others
In the first half of the twentieth century, the rationalist tide had reached its high mark[1]. For example, in architecture and city planning, rationalism would sweep away…
Review of Tradition v. Rationalism: Voegelin, Oakeshott, Hayek, and Others
Tradition V. Rationalism: Voegelin, Oakeshott, Hayek, and Others. Lee Trepanier and Eugene Callahan, eds. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2018. We live in strange times. Anyone following educational…
Continental Freedom
Eric Voegelin and the Continental Tradition: Explorations in Modern Political Thought. Lee Trepanier and Steven F. McGuire, editors. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2010. Originality…
Between Two Millstones: Interview with Daniel J. Mahoney
The following is an interview with Daniel J. Mahoney, the Augustine Chair in Distinguished Scholarship at Assumption College, about Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Between Two Millstones: Book 1: Sketches…
The Poland of Asia: Korea and the March 1st Movement
Today marks the one hundredth anniversary of the March 1st Movement, which sparked the Korean resistance to Japanese colonial rule (1910-45) and now is celebrated in South…
Democracy and Industrial Society
In Voegelin’s essay about industrial society, he explored how the American economy had adapted to ever-changing economic circumstances, with its technological productivity and rationalization of forms of…
Industrial Society in Search for Reason
In his 1960 essay, “Industrial Society in Search of Reason,” Voegelin described the features of industrial society as follows: 1) the worker was separated from his tools…
Democracy in the New Europe
Voegelin’s essay, “Democracy in the New Europe” (1959), was written in a period of transition in Eric Voegelin’s career, having left Louisiana State University in the United…
Poetry Over Positivism: Owen Barfield on the Rational and the Representative in the World
Owen Barfield (1898-1997) was a British philosopher, poet, and solicitor who had a tremendous influence on the likes of C.S. Lewis, T.S. Eliot, and Saul Bellow. He…
War, Progress, and Sociology in the Age of Ideology
In the preface to The Quest for Community, Robert Nisbet explained the theme of his work: “I have chosen to deal with the political cause of the…
The Dystopian World
The Man in the High Castle. Philip K. Dick. New York: Mariner Books, 2012. The Man in the High Castle. TV Series created by Frank Spotnitz and…