Public Writings

Law and Liberty , November 13, 2023 If, like me, you are a conservative living in the world of academe, you tend to take a dark view of...

First Things , November 7, 2023 With the victory of Octavian Caesar, the heir of Julius Caesar, over Antony and Cleopatra at the battle...

Law & Liberty, November 2, 2023 Harvard, which FIRE recently ranked near the bottom for academic freedom among leading US universities,...

The New Criterion , September 2023 A c lassic debate among historians of Rome attempts to answer the question of how this city-state on...

Public Discourse, August 3, 2023 We need to study history as a subject in its own right, acquiring a deep appreciation for the story of...

The Wall Street Journal, July 19, 2023 In my 38 years teaching at Harvard, I have only twice met members of Harvard’s governing boards,...

Law & Liberty, May 30, 2023 When most Americans hear the expression “liberal conservative,” they think of it as an oxymoron at best, at...

First Things , May 12, 2023 King Alexander III of Macedon is beyond doubt among the greatest figures in world history. But was he a great...

Principia: A Journal of Classical Education 2.1 (Spring 2023) Francesco Patrizi of Siena (1413–1494) was the most important political...

The Wall Street Journal , January 13, 2023 Now that Republicans control the House, what can they do to regain Americans’ trust in...

Law & Liberty, November 14, 2022 Quick, who do you think wrote the following? To use the classroom … as a sort of ersatz political...

First Things, August 25, 2022 I was profiled recently in the Wall Street Journal , which was an interesting experience for a...

First Things, August 2, 2022 I learned the following ten lessons about democratic society from the pandemic. Some of these things I...

Law & Liberty, July 20, 2022 The Civics Alliance has just published, in time for the Fourth of July, its American Birthright , a model...

Law and Liberty , May 11, 2022 In contemporary America, the most glamorous of the virtues is undoubtedly justice. On battlefields,...

First Things, April 26, 2022 We have been hearing a lot in recent months about a staffing crisis in district public schools, teacher...

Law & Liberty, April 5, 2022 Patrick Deneen, self-described as a post-liberal, one of the most brilliant bomb-throwers on the American...

First Things , March 4, 2022 Historians who write about merchant republics during the Renaissance often speak of an “honor deficit,” an...

First Things , February 4, 2022 Many academics today are dismayed by the growing intolerance of heterodox thinking in contemporary...

Société, Droit et Religion , February 2, 2022 Certains lecteurs peuvent être étonnés de voir le terme «sécularité» dans le titre de cet...