Herman Melville’s Ship of State
Herman Melville’s Ship of State. William Morrisey. South Bend, Indiana. St. Augustine’s Press, 2020. Herman Melville’s Ship of State by Professor Will Morrisey is a relatively…
Eric Voegelin Studies: A Conversation with Charles Embry
What did "Don't immanentize the eschaton!" really mean? Richard M. Reinsch II of Liberty Law Talk interviews Charles Embry about Eric Voegelin and his, along with Glenn…
Giving the Devil His Due: Demonic Authority in the Fiction of Flannery O’Connor and Fyodor Dostoevsky
Giving the Devil His Due: Demonic Authority in the Fiction of Flannery O’Connor and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Jessica Hooten Wilson. Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2017. Giving the…
Ellis Sandoz as Master Teacher
Professor Ellis Sandoz, the Hermann Moyse, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Louisiana State University and Director of the Eric Voegelin Institute for American Renaissance Studies,…
Reflections on the “Metropolis of Death”
Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death: Reflections on Memory and Imagination. Otto Dov Kulka with Ralph Mandel, trans. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2013. After surviving Auschwitz,…
Mikhail Shishkin’s Maidenhair: God of Life
On first reading, Maidenhair stymies the reader, but in a good way for it challenges the reader to engage itself. Since Maidenhair is like a whirling merry-go-round…
The Violent Bear It Away: A Novel of Divine Presence
"The flux [of divine presence] has the structure of a divine-human encounter; every phase is an event of man’s responding, or refusing to respond, to the presence…
Proust and the Truth of the Novel
Real life, life finally uncovered and clarified, the only life in consequence lived to the full, is literature. Life in this sense dwells within all ordinary people…
Eric Voegelin as Literary Critic
The occupation with works of art, poetry, philosophy, mythical imagination and so forth, makes sense only if it is conducted as an inquiry into the nature of…