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How to Read with Christian Eyes

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.
Imaginary Conversation with Borges about Imaginary Writers and Books*

2 weeks ago | voegelinview.com | Pedro Gonzalez |Pedro González

To the other one, to Borges, is to whom things happen. I walk through the streets of Buenos Aires and I delay myself, perhaps almost mechanically, to look at the arch of an entrance hall and the grillwork on the gate; from Borges I find out through the mail and I see his name in a list of professors or in a biographical dictionary. Jorge Luis Borges-Borges and II met the blind Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, who was accompanied by an assistant, at a local park in Buenos Aires.
The End of the "Age of Reagan"

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.
Shackled to the Humean Corpse

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.
The Muse - VoegelinView

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).
The Hopeful Majesty of Aurora Borealis

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.
Jonathan Swift: A "Modest" Political Theorist

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.
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.