American Foreign Policy and the Failure of Reason
Writing recently in Spectator USA, the estimable Dan McCarthy pointed out that the recent failures of American foreign policy are not simply errors in prudential judgment.[*] There…
Writing recently in Spectator USA, the estimable Dan McCarthy pointed out that the recent failures of American foreign policy are not simply errors in prudential judgment.[*] There…
Though at times obscured by the array of content from the subfields of political science, there is a fundamental relationship between theology and the study of politics.…
Consciousness and Politics. From Antiquity to Meditations in the Late Work of Eric Voegelin. Barry Cooper. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine's Press, 2018. Consciousness and Politics…
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. Lee Trepanier, ed. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2020. China and the Mongols, in the light of Voegelin’s thought, are the focus of…
The rise of Asia in global affairs has forced western thinkers to rethink their assumptions, theories, and conclusions about the region. Eric Voegelin’s Asian Political Thought brings…
Modern American conservatism rose in the 1950s under the leadership of William F. Buckley Jr. and Frank S. Meyer at the old National Review magazine, culminated in 1980 with…
The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction. Mark Lilla. NY: New York Review Books, 2016. Mark Lilla's goal in this book is to warn the reader about…
Part I: A Short Summary Voegelin’s essay on equivalences was written 50 years ago in 1970; it has been an essay with continued popular interest to Voegelin…
In her prefatory note to the second edition of Wise Blood, Flannery O’Connor claims that she is “congenitally innocent of theory” and that her preoccupation as a…
Political Philosopher Eric Voegelin refers occasionally to the ancient Egyptian poem, “Dispute of a Man Who Contemplates Suicide With His Soul.” The “Dispute” is about a “man…
Eric Voegelin, whose works have begun to be translated into French, is a German-born American political philosopher best known for his study of political Gnosticism. According to…
“The dove – the rood – the loaf – the wine.” Men know the gods because they have seen or intuited them, but not all men have…
Man is a composite being comprising two bodies: the physical body and the spiritual body. The spiritual body comprises the tripartite soul: intellect, will and passions. The…
Methodology is not a value-free tool in economic analysis, leading some to conclude economics itself cannot be a value free science. The presumption of every economic methodology…