“The Philosophical Foundations of Friendship.” Three-day seminar, co-directed by me and Professor Daniel Bonevac, Civitas Institute, University of Texas at Austin, August, 2023.
“The Architecture of Law.” Sołek Academic and Cultural Center, Poznań, Poland, June, 2021.
“Flavors of the Common Good.” Conversations Series, Common Good Project, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, March, 2021.
“Rights, By Nature and By Grace.” Invited paper at “Christianity and Natural Rights Symposium,” October-November 2025, at Notre Dame Rome.
“Of Course Human Law Develops: Can Natural and Divine Law Develop?” Symposium on “Aquinas on the Development of Law,” Aquinas Institute, held at the Blackfriars, Oxford University, Oxford, England, March, 2019.
“Why Scientists, Scholars, and Experts Are Not – and Cannot Be – Neutral Authorities.” Real Clear Books, February, 2029.
“Open Our Eyes: A Vaccine for the Pandemic of Lunacy.” Touchstone, March-April, 2026.
“Why Is There So Much Lying in Politics Today?” Real Clear Politics, February, 2026.
Pandemic of Lunacy: How to Think Clearly When Everyone Around You Seems Crazy. Creed & Culture, 2026.
Commentary on Thomas Aquinas’s Treatise on the One God. Cambridge University Press, 2024.
How and How Not to Be Happy. Regnery, 2022.
At the University of Texas at Austin, my primary appointment is in Government; I am jointly appointed to the Philosophy Department and to the School of Civic Leadership; and I am a Faculty Fellow of the Civitas Institute. In addition, I teach some courses in the Department of Religious Studies and the Law School. Following is the chronology of my appointments.
2025-present: Received jointly appointment to the School of Civic Leadership, University of Texas at Austin.
2022-present: Faculty Fellow of the Civitas Institute, University of Texas at Austin.
Abbreviated curriculum vitae
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