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New publication

Now available: Political Science Reviewer, Vol 46(1)

New publication

Now on-line! Kirstin Birkhaug’s new essay “Better Things than Happiness” on Law and Liberty.

New publication

Read Philip Bunn’s article “Adam Smith, Technology, and Liberty” on the Independent Institute.

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.    

Disinvited Dinner

The Disinvited Dinner celebrates and affirms a culture of free speech and First Amendment principles, the importance and meaning of academic freedom, and the search for Truth by offering a platform to someone whose speech has been suppressed elsewhere. The CSLD is pleased to announce Jeff Sessions as the keynote speaker for the 2022 Disinvited Dinner on Wednesday, …

New Publication

Read Graduate Fellow Kirsten Birkhaug’s new essay, “What we can find between the pages”, in The Constitutionalist.

Join the CSLD Catholic Social & Political Thought Spring Reading Group!

Join as at Meiklejohn House from 7:00 – 8:30 pm every other Tuesday this semester as we work our way through St. Augustine’s Confessions! A masterful work of theology and political theory, Augustine’s account of his life carries important lessons for us all. All students welcome to join.

New Issue of Constitutional Studies Now Available!

Ft. articles by Mark Graber, Jeffrey Tulis, Anna Fruhstorfer, Fruzsina Gardos-Orosz, Yaniv Roznai, Gary Jacobsohn, Miguel Schor, Howard Schweber, and Joesph Cozza.

New Publication

CSLD’s Philip Bunn has published a new article, “Transcendent Rebellion: The Influence of Simone Weil on Albert Camus’ Esthetics” (Perspectives on Political Science, 2021).