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The Muse - VoegelinView

1 month 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).
The Hopeful Majesty of Aurora Borealis

1 month ago | 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.
Jonathan Swift: A "Modest" Political Theorist

2 months ago | voegelinview.com | Paul Krause

“Much as he relished the fray, Swift would always deny that he had turned renegade. The degenerates who had taken over government, Parliament, the Crown – it was they who had left him no option but resistance. This was Swift’s line of argument; and this, as well he knew, was the reasoning of a rebel, however reluctant.” Thus concludes John Stubbs’ august biography of one of Europe’s most notorious satirical writers.
The Future of the Humanities

Jan 20, 2025 | voegelinview.com | Paul Krause |David Whitney

Declarations on the decline and fall of the humanities have been commonplace for the past 40 years but never as loud and sorrowful as now. Concern for the decline of English majors, the general decline of the humanities more broadly, and expected declines in university enrollment is, of course, a major concern. No democratic society can endure without education, literacy, and a thinking (and virtuous) citizenry. However, the decline and fall of the humanities is overstated by the declinists.
Rescuing Virgil: Memory, Love, and Eternity in the “Divine Comedy”

Jan 18, 2025 | voegelinview.com | Hannah Taylor

Arts & Culture, EssaysA petrified Dante, pale cheeks shining with copious tears, ducks away from the frozen terrors of Hell into the warm shoulder of loving Virgil, who sets a paternal kiss upon the rumpled hair and holds the trembling poet’s hands. Slowly and carefully, the overwhelmed poet raises his brow to meet the loving eyes looking down upon him, and his aghast face gently glows with a smile of filial love. It’s a beautiful image, is it not?
What We're Reading - VoegelinView

Nov 30, 2024 | voegelinview.com | David Whitney

John Milton, Paradise Lost. The greatest epic of the English language, Milton’s Paradise Lost is a grand tapestry of humanity caught in the storm clouds of the divine battle between God and Satan.
A Note to William Carlos Williams

Nov 12, 2024 | voegelinview.com | Harry Eyres

“No ideas but in things” – but poems Don’t exactly deal in things. More images perhaps? That is, The thing transformed, or in a new light, As Monet’s Nymphéas aren’t quite lilies, Are they? Or those white dashes On King Philip’s tunic, which Velázquez daubed with lordly Near-indifference, as if to show He too had kingly grace and power. The closer you look at “things”, At least in paintings, the more they Seem to dissipate, become More abstract, more like elements.
The Struggle to Believe in Modern Cinema

Nov 9, 2024 | voegelinview.com | Tyler Hummel

Arts & Culture Reviews, ReviewsThe post-Christian world has fundamentally changed the way that Hollywood interacts with religion. Christianity was once the normative belief system in the United States. The Catholic Legion of Decency had the power to enforce two decades’ worth of self-censorship through the Hays Code against the horrors of godless Hollywood and its lecherous values. The decline in religion has meant that cinema has largely fallen into the realm of the secular.
The Real Battle of AI: Destined to Be Prometheus or to Rise Towards the Peaks of Olympus

Oct 21, 2024 | voegelinview.com | Daniel de Liever

The Stalemate in Understanding the Role of TechnologyArtificial intelligence (AI) has been a part of the human imagination for a long time. Both the potential dangers and advantages have been eagerly discussed. A popular version of the threat that AI may pose has been embodied in the famous Terminator franchise. Machines would become independent of humanity, become dominant, and try to destroy humanity in an all-out war. Another popular vision of AI can be seen in the Matrix franchise.
Where the Nereids Swim and Play

Oct 9, 2024 | voegelinview.com | Paul Krause

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 swim and play On ship and sea I now stay In the heat of summer’s June And beneath the pale white moon. Where the Nereids swim and play I hear them sing as I lay To cast my net and my heart ’Till no more I feel apart. Where the Nereids swim and play I sing and dance in the bay. Now at last, that hour comes I sink with the setting sun.