January 2023 marks the first month of a new year for VOEGELINVIEW. After the yearlong transformation of the journal into a general-purpose arts and humanities publication with a strong emphasis on reviews and intellectual and cultural criticism, our identity is now that of a public journal of the “higher criticism.” Our content is meant to reach as many as possible and not just an exclusive few. This January also marked the fourth consecutive month of over 40,000 readers and therefore represents the best start to a new year in the history of our journal.
While we began publishing poems in 2022, making it part of our regular publishing schedule by the end of the year, 2023 will mark our first year of being a journal with a full-time dedication to poetry. Poetry is now being published every week and on days of special occasion based on editorial discretion. Even though this journal is named after Eric Voegelin, submissions need not be related to Voegelin or include Voegelin commentary or asides. The spirit of Voegelin’s larger intellectual concerns, which encompassed art, culture, literature, even film, is the true spirit that guides us and we honor that legacy in our expansive intellectual outlook. This journal aims, in 2023, to build off the tremendous readership and networking growth of the past couple of years to be an attractive hub for writers, artists, and poets of all stripes to share their love of the humanities with the world and to reinvigorate Western artistic and intellectual culture more specifically.
Given the new realities of VOEGELINVIEW, contributors should be cognizant of our new nature and growing readership as already mentioned. We aim to be a publication that reaches an educated and literate audience but one that is not specialist in nature. Writing in “academese,” a style akin to peer reviewed research, or compositions with a heavy reliance on foreign language is strongly discouraged and will be edited to bring clarity, readability, and ease of understanding. While space for “Academic Articles” is retained, even works of an academic nature should be written in a manner that is accessible to as wide an audience as possible. We should be writing, first, foremost, and always, for others.
The reading and writing life are meant to build bonds and bridges across generations and places. It is strongly encouraged that professors and teachers who write for the journal encourage a new and forthcoming generation of students and writers to enter the world of public writing and commentary. We all have a positive role to play in our ongoing transformation and cultivation of an identity as a leading journal of arts, culture, humanities, and intellectual criticism and commentary.
Without further ado, here were some of our most-read articles, essays, book reviews, and all poems published in January. We look forward to what this new year brings! And we look forward to bringing all our readers the highest quality in humanistic writing, commentary, and education.
ARTICLES
War and History: Jan Patocka, Martin Heidegger, and the Crisis of History by Brian Patrick Bolger
ESSAYS
The Third Adam and the Modern “Higher” Self by Marco Andreacchio
Roger and Me by Paul Krause
Sacred Truths in a Profane World by Roger Scruton
BOOK REVIEWS
Augustine and Time, eds. John Doody, Sean Hannan, and Kim Paffenroth, reviewed by Paul Krause.
Plutocratic Socialism: The Future of Private Property and the Fate of the Middle Class by Mark T. Mitchell, reviewed by Scott Robinson
Repetition and Mythos: Ratzinger’s Bonaventure and the Meaning of History by Matthew R. Boulter, reviewed by Thomas Holman
More Than Heaven: A Biblical Theological Argument for a Federal View of Glorification by T. Jeff Taylor, reviewed by Scott Meyer
Christopher Dawson: A Cultural Mind in the Age of the Great War by Joseph T. Stuart, reviewed by David Beer
The Awakening of Jennifer Van Arsdale: A Political Fable for Our Time by George Leef, reviewed by Christine Sunderland
The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present by Byung-Chul Han, reviewed by Christopher Garbowski
Why Boredom Matters. Education, Leisure, and the Quest for a Meaningful Life by Kevin Gray, reviewed by Lee Trepanier
The Fall of Númenor by J.R.R. Tolkien, ed. by Brian Sibley, reviewed by Paul Krause
The World of James Bond: The Lives and Times of 007 by James Black, reviewed by Filip Bakardzhiev
A History of the Hungarian Constitution: Law, Government and Political Culture in Central Europe, edited by Ferenc Hörcher and Thomas Lorman, reviewed by Andras Lanczi
POEMS
When I Met the Wolf by Michael Buhler
Flowery Wasteland by Melanie Fino
A Visit to the Planetarium by Glenn Hughes
The Burning by Harold Jones
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