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Miller Center Network Publications

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

The Jack Miller Center wants to congratulate the members of our JMC network who have published a book length manuscript in the last calendar year. Few accomplishments are as meaningful and lasting for authors, and those who read them.

The list also is a demonstration of the broad intellectual interests of our network. Although many directly address America’s Founding and History, the list includes subjects and authors that compose the intellectual, historical, and political resources the American Founders drew upon as well as current events that are of interest to all of us.

Nathan Busch, Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Future of Non-Proliferation Policy, co-edited with Daniel H. Joyner (University of George Press, 2009)

Ross Corbett, The Lockean Commonwealth (SUNY, 2009)

Donald Critchlow, ed., Debating Conservatism (Rowman and Littlefield, 2009),  Politics and Hollywood (Routledge, 2009)

John Dinan, paperback edition of The American State Constitutional Tradition

Jonathan Dunn, From Schoolhouse to Courthouse: The Judiciary’s Role in American Education, co-edited with Martin West (Brookings Institution Press, 2009)

Robert Faulkner and Susan Shell, co-editors of American at Risk: Threats to Liberal Self-Government in an Age of Uncertainty (University of Michigan Press, 2009)

Michael Gillespie, paperback edition of The Theological Origins of Modernity

Allen Guelzo, Lincoln (Oxford University Press, 2009), Abraham Lincoln as a Man of Ideas (Southern Illinois University Press, 2009)

William Hay, Lives of Victorian Political Figures, Part IV (William Bagehot) (Pickering and Chatto Publishers, 2009)

Louie Herbert, More than Kings and Less than Men: Tocqueville on the Promise and Perils of Democratic Individualism (Lexington Books, 2009)

Steve Kautz, The Supreme Court and the Idea of Constitutionalism, co-edited with Arthur Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, Richard Zinman (Penn Press, 2009)

Christopher Kelly, Rousseau on Women, Love, and Family, co-edited with Eve Grace (University Press of New England, 2009)

Harvey Klehr, co-author of Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America (Yale University Press, 2009), The Communist Experience in America (Transaction Publishers, 2009)

Benjamin Kleinerman, The Discretionary President: The Promise and Peril of Executive Power (2009)

Robert Koons, The Waning of Materialism: new Essays on the Mind/Body Problem, co-edited with George Bealer (Oxford University Press, 2009)

Ralph Lerner, Playing the Fool: Subversive Laughter in Troubled Times (University of Chicago Press, 2009)

Paul Rahe, Montesquieu and the Logic of Liberty: War, Religion, Commerce, Climate, Terrain, Technology, Uneasiness of Mind, the Spirit of Political Vigilance, and the Foundations of the Modern Republic (Yale University Press, 2009), Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, and the Modern Prospect (Yale University Press, 2009)

Eric Sands, American Public Philosophy and the Mystery of Lincolnism (University of Missouri Press, 2009)

Brian Schoen, Fragile Fabric of Union: Cotton, Federal Politics, and the Global Origins of the Civil War (Johns Hopkins Press, 2009)

Colleen Sheehan, James Madison and the Spirit of Republican Self-Government (Cambridge University Press, 2009)

Susan Shell, Kant and the Limits of Autonomy (Harvard University Press, 2009)

Steven Smith, The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss (2009)

Barry Strauss, The Spartacus War (Simon & Schuster, 2009)

Jeffrey K. Tulis, The Constitutional Presidency, co-edited with Joseph M. Bessette (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009)

Gordon Wood, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 (Oxford, 2009)

Michael Zuckert, The Anti-Federalist Writings of the Melancton Smith Circle, co-edited with Derek Webb (Liberty Fund, 2009).

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The Washington DC Political Theory Colloquium

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Spring ‘10:

Detail of The School of Athens by Raffaello Sa...

School of Athens

February 5th

Ruth Grant, “Strings Attached: Ethics, Incentives, and Democracy”

Ruth Grant is Professor of Political Science and Philosophy and a Senior Fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University and is currently in residence at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York.  She is the author of John Locke’s Liberalism (Chicago, 1987) and Hypocrisy and Integrity: Machiavelli, Rousseau and the Ethics of Politics (Chicago, 1999) and the editor of Naming Evil, Judging Evil (Chicago, 2006) and of John Locke’s Some Thoughts Concerning Education (Hackett, 1996). She has also published articles in American Political Science Review, Political Theory, Public Choice, and the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy. She is currently working on a book entitled Strings Attached: The Ethics of Incentives.

February 19th

Harvey Flaumenhaft, “Exegesis and the Executive: How the Founders Disagreed about What a President Is”

Harvey Flaumenhaft is a member of the faculty and a former dean at St. John’s College in Annapolis. He is the author of The Effective Republic: Administration and Constitution in the Thought of Alexander Hamilton (Duke, 1992).

March 22nd

Stanley C. Brubaker, “Coming into One’s Own: John Locke’s Theory of Property, God, and Politics”

Stanley C. Brubaker is Professor of Political Science at Colgate University and the current Director of Colgate University’s Institute for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. He teaches in the fields of constitutional law, political philosophy, and American politics and government. His articles have appeared in American Political Science Review, Polity, Commentary, The Journal of Politics, The Review of Politics, Constitutional Commentary, The Public Interest, Commentary, and The Weekly Standard, among others.  He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Earhart Foundation, and Princeton University’s James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions.  His dissertation, a biography of Benjamin Cardozo, won the Edward S. Corwin Award from the American Political Science Association.  He is currently completing two works, The Constitution of Self-Government, under contract with Johns Hopkins University Press, and John Locke on Property, Politics, and God.

April 15th

Paul Rahe, “Montesquieu and the Logic of Liberty”

Paul Rahe is the Charles O. Lee and Louise K. Lee Chair in Western Heritage and Professor of History at Hillsdale College. He has also taught at Yale, Cornell, Franklin and Marshall, and Tulsa. He is the author of Republics Ancient and Modern: Classical Republicanism and the American Revolution (UNC, 1992), Against Throne and Altar: Machiavelli and Political Theory under the English Republic (Cambridge, 2008), Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, and the Modern Prospect (Yale, 2009), and Montesquieu and the Logic of Liberty (Yale, 2009), as well as articles in History of Political Thought, Review of Politics, American Historical Review, and Political Science Reviewer.

Times and Location: All talks are held on the campus of American University in the Archives Reading Room (#320) of Bender Library from 5:30-7:00 p.m.

Everyone is welcome!