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Call for Editors Utraque Unum - February 11, 2013

Want to work for Utraque Unum, Georgetown's only undergraduate journal in the humanities and the recent recipient of the Collegiate Network's national award for Best Undergraduate Journal of Letters? Applications are due February 11th.

Email Chris Mooney (crm58@georgetown.edu) if you have questions. Read more about Utraque Unum and read previous editions online below. See the Call for Editors here for more information about out to apply.

Utraque Unum

The Utraque Unum is a journal of the Tocqueville Forum written and edited by Georgetown undergraduates comprised of essays on law and politics, religion, culture, and campus life and liberal learning at Georgetown University.

Georgetown University's seal is based directly on obverse of the Great Seal of the United States of America.  Instead of the American eagle clutching an olive branch in its right talon and thirteen arrows its left talon, Georgetown's eagle is clutching a globe and calipers in its right and left talons.  The American seal’s eagle holds a banner in its beak that states “E Pluribus Unum” or “Out of Many, One” in reference to the many different people and states creating a union. The Georgetown seal’s eagle holds a banner in its beak that states “Utraque Unum.”

As the official motto of Georgetown University, Utraque Unum is often translated as “Both One” or “Both and One” and is taken from Paul’s epistle to the Ephesians.  This motto is found in a Latin translation of Ephesians 2:14: “ipse est enim pax nostra qui fecit utraque unum.”  Translated in the King James Version of the Bible it states, “For He [Christ] is our peace, who hath made both one.”  Utraque Unum is the Latin phrase to describe Paul’s concept of unity between Jews and Gentiles; that through Jesus Christ both are one.

In view of the Georgetown seal, the motto represents pursuing knowledge of the earthly (the world and calipers) and the spiritual (the cross).  Faith and reason need not be exclusive.  In unity faith and reason enhance the pursuit of knowledge.
 

Archived Issues and Articles

Please click below to download a pdf copy of past issues of Utraque Unum, or of individual articles.

Utraque Unum Volume 6 Issue 1 (Winter 2012)

Utraque Unum Volume 5 Issue 2 (Summer 2012)

Utraque Unum Volume 5 Issue 1 (Winter 2011)

• Generations - by Patrick J. Deneen
• On What can be Purchased for a Drachma - by James V. Schall, S.J.
• Liberal Individualism and the Encumbrance of Affectionate Love - by Kate Bermingham
• Analysis of the Allegory of the Cave - by Rita Pearson
• Rethinking the Vocabulary of Freedom - by Alex Henderson
• Ordered Liberty: Why Libertarians and Conservatives Need Each Other and How Tocqueville Had the Answer All Along - by Paul D. Miller
• A House Divided Against Itself: American Christianity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age - by Joshua Donovan
• Abraham Lincoln's Defense of the Suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus - by Rachel Cox
• St. Hugh of Lincoln - by Kevin S. Baird
• What is Called Secular? The Many Meanings of an Ambiguous Term In and Beyond Lemon v. Kurtzman - by Christopher P. Tosetti 
• On Liturgy and the Polis - by Kieran G. Raval
• The Ineffability of the Divine in Moby Dick - by Chris Mooney
• A Physical Harbinger of Morality: Weather, Pollution, and The Picture of Dorian Gray - by Michelle K. Dailey
• In God We Fear - by Masha Goncharova
• Fool's Gold: A History of the Philodemic Society from 1099-1977 - by Daniel Rendleman
• Georgetown and Maryland's Catholic Vision - by Stephen M. Fields, S.J.
• What Makes Georgetown Great? - by Eric Wind
• "A Yankee with a Foreign Accent:" Remembering Jan Karski - by E. Thomas Wood
• On Dante, Freedom of Responsibility, and the Importance of "Contemplative Leisure:" A Conversation with Francis Ambrosio - by Javier Pena

Utraque Unum Volume 4 Issue 2 (Summer 2011)

• Faith, Reason, and Liberty - by Patrick J. Deneen
• Books that are "Great" - Books that are "Trut" - by James V. Schall, S.J.
• The Right of Revolution in Theory & Prohibition of Rebellion in Practice - by Charlie Beller
• A Crusade to Save Western Civilization: American Philhellenism in the Greek War for Independence - by Collan Rosier 
• Despotism from Motesquieu to Tocqueville - A New Function of Materialism - by Brenner Fissell (link removed at the author's request)
• Can Democratic Tyranny Exist in the United States? - by Raymond P. Tolentino
• The Minotaur and the Republic: On the Applicability of de Jouvenel's Theory of Power to the Future of the American Polity - by Christopher P. Tosetti
• Pope Benedict's Liturgical Vision and its Implications for Young Catholics - by Kieran Raval
• Contesting the Secular: Aquinas and Charles Taylor on Reason in the Public Sphere - by Karl O'Hanlon
• Between Jerusalem and Athens - by Matthew Giebler
• The Politics of Ridley Scott's "Robin Hood" - by Matt Hoyt
• Spiritual Atheist: Philip Larkin - by Matthew McKillip
• Race, Identity, and National Consciousness: Georgetown University's Changing Conceptualization of Patrick Healy's Racial Identity - by Matthew Sheptuck 
• Reforming in the Wake of the Storm: A History of the Philodemic Society from 1866-1900 - by Michael Desnick 
• Georgetown, Dolley Madison, and the Mexican-American War - Michael Meaney
• An Interview with Fr. David Collins - by Michael Clark 
• Considering the Value of the Georgetown Core Curriculum: A Chilean Case Study - by Mark Schmidt 

Utraque Unum Volume 4 Issue 1 (Fall 2010)

• A Feeling of Foreboding: Nietzsche and the Consequences of Morality - by Justin R. Hawkings
• "A Losing Battle:" A Conversation with George W. Carey - By Stephen Wu
• A More Perfect University - By Timothy Tsai
• Cultivating Virtue at Georgetown - By Eric Wind
• "Eliquence in Defense of Liberty: A History of the Philodemic Society, 1830-1865" - By Emma Green
• Fair Play and Political Obligation - By Jay Sykes
• Freedom, Suffering, and Realism in Dante - By Alexander J. Kritikos
• Georgetown University, the "Kernel" of Student Activism in the 1960s and 1970s - Sye Myung Kim 
• "God for Harry! England and Saint George!" A Review of Shakespeare's Richard II and Henry V - By Michael Fischer
• "If from the Public Way You Turn Your Steps..." A Review of Michael: A Pastoral Poem, by William Wordsworth - By  Matthew Mckillip
• On the Being with Hands and Mind - By Father James V. Schall, S.J.
• Politics as Manners and Morals - By Professor Patrick Deneen
• Social Justice and the Liturgy: Inspirations, Ideas and the Legacy of Virgil Michel - By Natalie Punchak
• The Globalization of the Cold War: Communist Containment and Economic Rebuilding of Western Europe and Japan - By Loghman Fatthahi
• The Passion of Lacking All Conviction: Secularism in Europe in the New Millennium - By Karl O'Hanlon
• To Yearn, To Wander, To Love: A Review of Letters to a Young Poet, by Rainer Maria Rilke - By Kate Bermingham
• Traditionalism and Liberalism: A Fusion of Convenience - By Christopher P. Tosetti

Utraque Unum Volume 3 Issue 1 (Winter 2010)

• "Under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance: The Case in Favor of Retention - by Ryan Berg
• Seals, Shields, and Stained Glass: Georgetown's Visual Devices Past, Present, and Future - by Jack Carlson
• Ideas in Community - by Professor Patrick J. Deneen   
• Statesmanship of the Many? - by Brenner M. Fissell (link removed at the author's request)
• Distinguishing the Declaration from Locke's Second Treatise - by Scott Gray
• The Sublime Obligation of Virtue - by Justin R. Hawkins
• How I Learned to Stop Worrying, and Trust American Hegemony - by  Nicholas Iacono
• On Book II of Plato's Republic: Education and the Malleability of the Soul in the 'City in Speech' - by Natalie Punchak
• "Restoration" or "Reinvention"?: The Mystery of the Riggs Library Windows - by Mariel Reed
• The Peace of Babylon: The Role of the State in a Christian Worldview - by Collan B. Rosier
• On the Passingness of Things - by Professor James V. Schall, SJ
• Religious Toleration and the Limits of State Authority - by Jay Sykes
• The Organization Kid's Saving Grace - by Timothy Tsai

Utraque Unum Volume 2 Issue 2 (Spring 2009)

• Letter from the Editor - by Eric Wind; Seeing Differently, Seeing Further - by Professor Patrick J. Deneen
• Docilitas: On Being Invited into the Kitchen of Heraclitus - by Professor James V. Schall, SJ
• Edmund Burke and the Bedrock of American Conservatism - by Jeffrey Long
• Justice at the Margins: The Limitations of Originalism - by Jay Sykes
• Beyond the Northern Conspiracy: Antebellum Southern Political Theory and Its Lasting Implications for Governance - by Scott Gray
• Separate But Equal: The Essence of American Bicameralism - by Collan B. Rosier
• Malta Leads the Way? State Religion Reconsidered - by Anthony Carmen Piccirillo
• Seeking True Religious Freedom - by Emily Merki
• Georgetown's Forgotten Second Founder: The Story of Fr. Anthony Grassi, SJ - by Amanda Marie Murphy
• An Interview with Fr. Stephen M. Fields, SJ - by Danielle Singleton
• My Life, My Lot: Reflections on Conversion - by Margaret E. Perry
• When Love Blooms - by Alexander Kritikos

Utraque Unum Volume 2 Issue 1 (Spring 2008)

• Cover Page; Table of Contents; Letter from the Editor - by Eric Wind
• Deepening Knowledge of the American and Western Tradition - by Professor Patrick J. Deneen
• On the Forgotten Origins of Human Science: The Modern University and Alcibiades' Education - by James Crowley
• Jefferson's Pyramid: The Revolutionary Plan to Educate America - by Sam Hornak
• Revising the Death of God: Charles Taylor and the Secular Age - by Lukasz Swiderski
• On the Dangers of Thinking, and Other Oddities - by Professor James V. Schall, SJ
• The Gun Control Debate - by Matthew Cantirino
• How a Sixteen Dollar Tax Led to the Sixteenth Amendment - by Ashley M. McClymont
• The Patriotism of America's Catholic Universities - by Professor Stephen M. Fields, SJ
• William Wilberforce's Vision of Real Christianity - by Justin Hawkins
• Chariots of Fire: An Identity Crisis - by Emily Merki
• America's First Catholic Family: The Carrolls - by Amanda Marie Murphy
• Disbanding Georgetown's Football Team - by Henri Minion
• Father Walsh and the Founding of the School of Foreign Service - by Emily Solis-Cohen
• Breaking the Chains of Religious Intolerance: How a University and Students Can Advance Interreligious Understanding - by Eric Wind

Utraque Unum Volume 1 Issue 1 (Fall 2007)

• Cover Page; Table of Contents; Letter from the Editor - by Matthew Engler and Eric Wind
• The Tocqueville Forum: Seeing Self-Understanding - by Professor Patrick J. Deneen
• Constitutional Government & Civic Education - by Justice Antonin Scalia
• Liberal Education: "Missing Many Allusions" - by Professor James V. Schall, SJ
• The Renewal of Federalism - by Matthew J. Engler
• Freedom: More Social Than Political - by Grant Morrow
• Our Common Past: Marbury v. Madison - by Taylor O'Neill
• The Christian Populism of G. K. Chesterton - by Anthony Carmen Piccirillo
• Pope Benedict XVI, Father of Unity: Reflections on Identity and Dialogue - by Timothy Lang
• Barbara Mujica's Sister Teresa: A Vivid, Yet Enigmatic Portrait of Spain's Beloved Saint - by Amanda Marie Murphy
• Amazing Grace: How Sweet the Sight - by Katherine Boyle
• Rocky Balboa's Honor - by Paul D. Miller
• Lincoln and McClellan - by Dallas Woodrum
• Reflections on the Importance of Georgetown's Campus Buildings - by Jack Carlson
• Promoting a Georgetown Aesthetic - by Eric Wind

If you are intersted in submitting an essay to be considered for the Utraque Unum or would like to receive the latest issue via mail, please send an e-mail to the Editor of the Utraque Unum at utraque.unum@gmail.com.

The Tocqueville Gazette

The Tocqueville Gazette is the Tocqueville Forum's newsletter with articles covering the semester's events.  The newsletter features highlighted Tocqueville Forum undergraduate Student Fellows and a write-up on our Post-Doctoral Fellow and his or her activities. 

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Tocqueville Gazette Fall 2010

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Tocqueville Gazette Fall 2009

Tocqueville Gazette Summer 2009

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