February marked the official christening of the new identity of VOEGELINVIEW into an online journal of art, culture, criticism, and reviews which we have been striving toward over the past year. This journey has been completed with a new layout design for the site alongside a growing emphasis on public essays, reviews, and poems instead of niche academic articles. For the fifth month in a row, we exceeded 40,000 monthly readers despite only 28 days in the month.
Efforts are also being made to bring about a new shift in content with the emergent expansion of an Arts & Drama section which will include contributions from eminent art journalists and historians including Charlotte Metcalfe, Jane Mulvagh, as well as poet and playwright Gabriel Gbadamosi. This will become a feature of the journal going forward and we look forward to the new things this endeavor will bring.
With VOEGELINVIEW now posed to be an alternative publication of intellectual criticism and journalism comes a new responsibility for contributors: readability, accessibility, timeliness. While I have spoken on this insistence in previous monthly reviews, with the new identity of the journal now cemented and in place this is formal editorial priority going forward. Our pages are now devoted to public intellectual commentary and criticism to be read and disseminated by the reading public. Contributors should be cognizant of this reality. We write for the public, not ourselves; we write for a broad audience, not a niche and esoteric one; we are concerned with cultural commentary and the humanities, not obscure topics relevant to only a handful of academics.
I wish to thank those who have supported this transformation, specifically David Walsh and Jim Stoner who supported the idea when discussions over the new direction of VOEGELINVIEW were part of the interviewing process for editor-in-chief. As we grow and ascend into new horizons, we shall become a pillar in the American, and more broadly Western, scene of cultural and intellectual criticism and commentary. Readers familiar with The Nation of the 1930s and 1940s, The New Republic of the 1980s and 1990s, or The New Yorker and Commentary of today, will find the same spirit here. We are already moving in that direction.
~ Paul Krause, Editor
ARTICLES
Rediscovering Theodor Haecker: “Vergil, Father of the West” by Darrell Falconburg
Louis Auguste Sabatier and the Subjective Turn in Theological Education by Dennis Durst
ESSAYS
The Long Road to Ukraine by Christopher Garbowski
Realism is Need for Moral Intuitions by Richard Cocks
The Wisdom of Hobbes or the Theatrics of Joe Biden? by Paul Krause
Beyond Modern Theatrics: Restoring the Dignity of Painting and Music by Marco Andreacchio
Have Conservatives Misunderstood Allan Bloom? by Stephen Lindsay
BOOK REVIEWS
Nero: Matricide, Music, and Murder in Imperial Rome by Anthony Everitt and Roddy Ashworth, reviewed by Paul Krause
A Cotton Mather Reader by Cotton Mather and edited by Ken Minkema and Reiner Smolinksi, reviewed by Scott Meyer
Napoleon at Peace: How to End a Revolution by William Doyle, reviewed by Jesse Russell
Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter, reviewed by Abigail Rosenthal
Wonder Strikes: Approaching Aesthetics and Literature with William Desmond by Steven Knepper, reviewed by Steve Conlin
Dante’s Multitudes: History, Philosophy, Method by Teodolinda Barolini, reviewed by Marco Andreacchio
Breaking History: A White House Memoir by Jared Kushner, reviewed by Paul Krause
How to Save the West by Spencer Klavan, reviewed by Jesse Russell
Cross and Creation: A Theological Introduction to Origen of Alexandria by Mark E. Therrien, reviewed by Paul Krause
POEMS
Hupomeno: To Remain Under by Raymond Dokupil
Trust by Glenn Hughes
Rendezvous by Harold Jones
Darkest Site by Mark Botts
I Can’t Eat With Jesus by Michael Buhler
Prayer by Glenn Hughes
Where Can Roots Be Sown? by Micah Veillon
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