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2 weeks 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).

2 months 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.

Feb 14, 2025 | 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.

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.