Just Published!

The Wall Street Journal published an op ed from our Interim Director, Ryan Owens. In response to a bipartisan bill on cameras at the High Court, our data counsel caution. Read more here

Just released!

Richard Avramenko and Alicia Rolsma, “On the Uses and Abuses of Flood for Life: St. Augustine’s Theo-politics of Disaster”in Making Sense of Diseases and Disasters: Reflections of Political Theory From Antiquity to the Age of …

New publication

Now available: Richard Avramenko’s essay, “Fugitive Aristocracy: Tocqueville’s Search for Remnants of the Ancien Régime” in the new Cambridge Companion to Democracy in America.

2022 Essay Competition Winners

We are pleased to announce the winners of the “my body, my choice” essay competition! You can click on the individual’s names to read their essay. 1st place: Renxi Li 2nd place: Aaron Dorf 3rd …