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  • 1 week ago | voegelinview.com | Paul Krause

    Is there a specific role for the Christian critic? Critics have all but become avatars of the avant-garde, deliberately shocking and scandalous for the shock value of being scandalous. Yet many critics are embarrassed by the fact that most readers prefer works like The Lord of the Rings or classics of the nineteenth century rather than the latest novel of the zeitgeist. The critic, like the teacher (since the critic is a sort of teacher) occupies a unique place in society and education.

  • 3 weeks ago | voegelinview.com | Paul Krause

    Ronald Reagan is the most consequential American president after Franklin Roosevelt. It was during Reagan’s presidency that our modern world transformed toward the integrated, international, free trade, “neoliberal” construct that we have been living under for the past 40 years.

  • 1 month ago | voegelinview.com | Paul Krause

    What is liberalism? That is now the enduring question of contemporary political philosophy, though, in some respects, this goes back to debates in the 1950s that occupied thinkers like Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, and Isaiah Berlin. When I was an undergraduate studying philosophy, concentrating in political philosophy, the seminal liberal figures I studied included Sir Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Baruch Spinoza.

  • 2 months ago | voegelinview.com | Paul Krause

    Paul Krause is the Editor-in-Chief of VoegelinView. He is a teacher, writer, podcaster, and the author of Muses of a Fire: Essays on Faith, Film, and Literature (Stone Tower Press, 2024), Finding Arcadia: Wisdom, Truth, and Love in the Classics (Academica Press, 2023), and The Odyssey of Love: A Christian Guide to the Great Books (Wipf and Stock, 2021).

  • Mar 1, 2025 | voegelinview.com | Paul Krause

    Civil War Richmond was soon to fall. Union forces were just outside the city, cannons bombarding the trenches of the Army of Northern Virginia at Petersburg. Meanwhile, the famous Arctic expedition Isaac Israel Hayes had undertaken prior to the outbreak of the Civil War was soon to be published now that the explorer-turned-surgeon had finished saving the lives of tens of thousands of Union soldiers wounded in battle.

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Paul Krause
Paul Krause @paul_jkrause
30 May 25

RT @goldengopher61: @paul_jkrause Not only free. “Moby Dick” is a popular synonym for long, boring and unreadable; but the opposite is true…

Paul Krause
Paul Krause @paul_jkrause
30 May 25

Want to be free? Read Moby-Dick.

Paul Krause
Paul Krause @paul_jkrause
29 May 25

When it comes to historical fiction, do you like more historical or more fiction?