David Lewis Schaefer is Professor of Political Science at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. He is author of The Political Philosophy of Montaigne (Cornell University Press, 1990; rpt. 2019) and of Illiberal Justice: John Rawls vs. the … Continue reading Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, The Tyranny of the Minority. New York: Crown, 2023
Thomas F. Powers is Professor and Chair in the Department of Political Science at Carthage College. He is the author of American Multiculturalism and the Anti-Discrimination Regime: The Challenge to Liberal Pluralism. Brown v. Board of Education famously restored the … Continue reading Is the ”Ellerth-Faragher Test” as Important as Brown v. Board of Education?
Steven Bilakovics is a Lecturer in Political Science at University of California, Irvine. He received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. When reason loses authority, violence fills the vacuum. James Baldwin For many years, I’ve opened my course … Continue reading Judging Democracy
Michael A. Genovese holds the Loyola Chair of Leadership and serves as President of the Global Policy Institute at Loyola Marymount University. The author of over 50 books, he frequently appears as a political commentator on CNN and elsewhere. No … Continue reading What Shakespeare Can Teach Us About Campaign 2024
Alec D. Rogers is an attorney specializing in government practice and policy in Washington, DC. In Coming to Terms with John F. Kennedy, Stephen Knott brings a lifetime of careful and thoughtful study of the American government, foreign policy, and … Continue reading Review of Stephen Knott’s Coming to Terms with John F. Kennedy
Brianne Wolf is Assistant Professor of Political Theory at James Madison College at Michigan State University. The issue of guns in America is often discussed as essential to freedom in a liberal society. On the one side of the issue, … Continue reading Bowling in Fear? Gun Violence and the Erosion of Civil Society
Mark Antonio Menaldo is Department Head and Associate Professor of Liberal Studies at Texas A&M University-Commerce. From heady academic categories to buzzword nomenclatures, “culture” applies to almost anything. The dominant way of thinking of “culture” today is as a “social … Continue reading Stewarding a Shapeless Culture
Steven B. Smith, Alfred Cowles Professor of Political Science, Yale University Every other year I teach a class at Yale called The Mind of Lincoln. The course is an in-depth study of the speeches and letters of Lincoln combined with … Continue reading The Lincoln Challenge
David Lewis Schaefer, Professor of Political Science, College of the Holy Cross In what was probably the most foolish utterance he made as President, Dwight Eisenhower, in his final address to the nation before he left office, offered a warning, … Continue reading The Return of the “Military-Industrial Complex”
Gary Schmitt is a senior fellow in the Social, Cultural and Constitutional Studies Program at the American Enterprise Institute. When former Vice President Mike Pence talks about his preferred nominees for the federal bench and the Supreme Court, he will … Continue reading Pence: Do the Right Thing
