Essays

Readers may cite from and reproduce portions of the essays, within standard copyright guidelines, provided credit to the source is acknowledged appropriately.

“Plato’s Crito in American Political Discourse”

Association for Core Texts and Courses Conference, Memphis, Tennessee

“From Confederation to Constitution: The Debate that Changed the Course of America”

Prepared for delivery on September 17, 2023 at the 1st Annual Constitution Day Celebration in Wimberley, Texas

Ties that Bind

An essay to celebrate the 4th of July, 2023

America’s Dialogue: Three Debates that Inform the Original Understanding of America

Prepared for delivery at the 2023 American Politics and Government Summit of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute

The Assault on American Political Thought

Prepared for delivery at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association

The Contributions of Eva Brann to American Political Thought (adapted for Imaginative Conservative on March 19, 2020)

The Challenge of Sustaining Morality in a Democracy: Insights Drawn from Aristotle’s Ethics and Politics

The Challenge of Sustaining Freedom and Morality in a Democracy: Insights Drawn from Tocqueville’s Democracy in America

Tocqueville’s Democracy in America: A Model for Combining Teaching and Research

The Contributions of Eva Brann to American Political Thought

Paper delivered at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association
Panel Sponsored by the Claremont Institute | Washington, D. C. | August 29, 2019

APSA Panel Presentation Remarks, August 29, 2019

Recapturing Civil and Political Discourse: Aristotle as a Source

Reflections on Aristotle’s Politics. September, 2019.