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Dinesh D’Souza has been no stranger to controversy, whether editing the Dartmouth Review as a student or taking on the American left. D'Souza has worked for the Reagan Administration, the Heritage Foundation, and the American Enterprise Institute. A native of India and now a U.S. citizen living in California, he has written several notable volumes, including Illiberal Education. D'Souza sparked outrage with his 2007 book, The Enemy at Home, in which he argued that the American cultural left bears responsibility for provoking militant Muslims into the September 11 terrorist attacks. Facing a firestorm of criticism from the left and the...

Transcendence and Immanence: An Excerpt from Voegelin's "What Is History?" Eric Voegelin"What Is History?": An ExcerptWhat Is History? and Other Late Unpublished Writings: The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin, Vol. 28. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1990. * * * * * * * Before we get into Voegelin's differentiation of immanence and transcendence which is the subject of the excerpt I'm about to post, we need to do a little "stage-setting": Voegelin had previously cited two classical "sophistic propositions." The two provide important background for the excerpt's main thesis. The first is attributed to Protagoras,...