Mozart and the Meaning of Christmas
Mozart is one of the greatest composers and musical geniuses who ever lived. This is not controversial. What is, however, is Mozart’s Catholicism. Not that Mozart wasn’t…
Singing Christmas With Rankin/Bass
Growing up, the 25 Days of Christmas on ABC Family was an essential part of the Christmas holiday. Among my favorite films that were often shown were…
Augustine in the Shadow of Eve
“Augustine’s significance within the Western intellectual tradition is, in part, due to his lasting practical value.” More than any other patristic theologian, Saint Augustine remains a staple…
First Things Podcast: “The Truth is in the Classics”
On November 14, First Things published a podcast episode with VOEGELINVIEW editor Paul Krause on his book Finding Arcadia: Wisdom, Truth, and Love in the Classics. The…
Where the Nereids Swim and Play
Where the Nereids swim and play On golden sand there I lay Under the sun, moon, and stars My heart does look from afar. Where the Nereids…
Power, Glory, and Vanity: The Politics of Romantic Poetry
“And on the pedestal these words appear: / ‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: / Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ / Nothing beside…
The Imperial Party Has No Clothes
Joe Biden’s candidacy and presidency was a promise to return to normalcy after one term of Trump’s erratic administration. Far from this return to normalcy, global chaos…
The Victorian Author Who Predicted Our Woke Future
When Edmund Burke penned his famous Reflections on the Revolution in France, he accosted the militant excesses of the revolutionaries for bringing death and destruction to a…
Our Man in Paris
Alexis De Tocqueville was not an American. But as a political observer and theorist, he is more American than any American; he is also the quintessential writer…
Scientizing Liberty: Gary Gindler’s Heroic Failure
When discussing political philosophy, it is important to be discussing political philosophy. Political philosophy is not “politics” as we use that term in societal parlance, and political…
Confronting the Gnostic Cosmos: Understanding Eric Voegelin
On March 12, 1938, German soldiers began crossing the border between Germany and Austria. It was an invasion. The Austrian government was in total disarray. Pro-Nazi sympathizers…
The Long Second World War
World War II is still being fought. Not on the battlefields of charging men and burning tanks, but in the battlefields of the hearts and minds of…
Identity, Idolatry, and Discord in the City of Man
“Western society is experiencing severe internal disorder. Stimulated by progressive politicians and radical Identity proponents; enforced through legal sanctions based on juridical decisions contrary to an originalist…
For God, For Country, and For Yale: And Other Currently Unpopular Opinions
It is currently an unpopular opinion to be supportive of America’s institutions of higher education, especially the prestigious universities like Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, and others—especially in…
How Shakespeare Would Have Loved Us and How We Love Shakespeare
William Shakespeare is widely considered the “greatest” of England’s many poets and writers, a dramatist whose works stir the heart and mind in both its language and…