The most popular understanding of Socratic method, portrayed in the 1973 movie, The Paper Chase, amounts to sophistic intimidation and the abuse of authority. A gentler version,…
Eric Voegelin’s The New Science of Politics, is probably his best-known book, at least in the sense that it has been in print in English since 1952.…
"Nations do not make myths. Myths make nations." - F.W.J. Schelling Philosophie der Offenbarung I. Introduction: The Electoral Expression of Regionalism[1] Both the formal institutions of…
A Good Look at Evil. Abigail L. Rosenthal,Eugene: Wipf and Stock, 2016. Abigail Rosenthal is a professor (emerita) of philosophy, which is not the same thing…
Peter Emberley died in Ottawa, Ontario on November 30, 2016, of a neurodegenerative disorder called Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB). The cause of DLB is unknown and…
Engineers of Jihad: The Curious Connection between Violent Extremism and Education. Diego Gambetta and Steffen Hertog, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. Several years ago in Bucharest…
In the last decade of or so of his life, Eric Voegelin developed an interest in very early political symbolism, the symbolism of persons living in what…
The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos. Patrick Leigh Fermor. London, Murray, 2013. On reading the new biography of Sir Patrick Michael Leigh…
Earlier this year I was in Dublin to take part in the presentation of a Festschrift to Brendan Purcell. David Walsh, one of the editors, remarked that,…
Eric Voegelin and Leo Strauss Eric Voegelin, Leo Strauss, and Hannah Arendt were all forced to flee Germany when that country fell under the sway of the…
Dismissive Views of Shamanism A generation ago anthropologists often dismissed shamanism as “a made-up, modern, Western category, an artful reification of disparate practices, snatches of folklore and…
Remember that it is not you who sustain the root; the root sustains you. -Roman 11:18 Voegelin, Mysticism, and the Stone Age Before discussing the evidence…
A Well-Thought-Out Program of Study During its brief period of operation, from 1918 to 1929, the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial, according to Robert M. Hutchins, “did more…
“Inside baseball” has become a metaphor to describe sports reporters who rely on locker room gossip rather than what happens on the playing field. There is an…
There are major differences between the way that the political implications of Islam have been worked out historically and the political order of liberal, constitutional democracy. It…