Articles & Reviews

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Articles

“Remembering Eva Brann: Defender of Great Books” [Published by Chronicles Magazine, March 2025].

“Making Lawyers Toxic in their Communities” [Published by the Gatestone Institute, March 17, 2024].

“When Lawyers Defending their Clients Become the Accused” [Published by the Gatestone Institute, January 10, 2024].

“Franklin’s Warning: A Republic . . . If You Can Keep It” [Published in American Greatness, February 4, 2023].

“Celebrating America’s Constitution to Defend It” [Published in American Greatness, September 13, 2022].

“Attacks on Pregnancy Centers Are More Than Mere Protests” [Published in American Greatness, June 30, 2022].

“Lincoln as Teacher: Correcting Miseducation” [Published in California Sense and Nonsense, February 19, 2022].

“Law(lessness) and (Dis)Order” [Published in California Sense and Nonsense, December 18, 2021].

“California Origins: Yesterday and Today” [Published in California Sense and Nonsense, October 6, 2021].

“Government: A Child’s Friend or Foe?” [Published in California Sense and Nonsense, August 3, 2021].

“Ties that Bind” [Distributed to East Valley Republican Women Federated, July 4, 2021].

“Equity or Education” [Published in American Greatness, June 22, 2021].

“Transformation through CRT, IBT, and DEI?” [Published in California Sense and Nonsense, June 3, 2021].

“Lessons from Lincoln on America’s Discord” [Published in American Greatness, February 14, 2021].

“Reflections on the Bill of Rights” [Published in American Greatness, December 18, 2020].

“Eva Brann’s Dialogue” [Published in Academic Questions, Winter 2020].

“Tocqueville’s Lessons in a Time of Pandemic” [Published in American Greatness, April 4, 2020].

“The Enduring Counsel of George Washington” [Published in American Greatness, February 22, 2020].

“The Political Community of the U.S. Constitution” [Published in American Greatness, September 17, 2019].

“Memo to Kaepernick: Read More Frederick Douglass” [Published in American Greatness, July 9, 2019].

“The Lessons of the Declaration of Independence” [Published in American Greatness, July 4, 2019].

“The Timeless Principles of the Declaration of Independence” [Published in American Greatness, August 19, 2018].

“Remembering the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his Teaching” [Published in American Greatness, April 5, 2018].

“Boy Scouts No More” [Published in American Greatness, October 14, 2017].

“Aristotle’s Politics and the Declaration of Independence” [Published in American Greatness, July 4, 2017].

“Imperiling Religious Liberty” [Published in American Greatness, October 18, 2016].

Book Reviews

Democracy and the History of Political Thought, edited by Patrick N. Cain, Stephen Patrick Sims, and Stephen A. Bock [Published in Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy 49, no. 1 (2022): 43-48].

The Woman Question in Plato’s “Republic” by Mary Townsend [Published in Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy 45, no. 1 (2018): 119-123].

An Archaeology of the Political: Regimes of Power from the Seventeenth Century to the Present by Elias Jose Palti [Published in Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy 44, no. 2 (2018): 325-29].

The Dilemma of Progressivism: How Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson Reshaped the American Regime of Self-Government by Will Morrissey [Published under the title “For the People, Not by the People” in The Review of Politics 72, no. 4 (2010): 758-60].