Introduction
Most college students take notes the same way they did in high school: They jot down whatever seems important as they go along. That works for predigested goo, but as you may have discovered already, it does not work for material you must digest for yourself -- especially arguments which are written from unfamiliar perspectives.
Frequently Asked Questions
Most of these questions apply to my undergraduate courses,
but some apply to graduate seminars too.
A close and careful study of the most important work in classical natural law tradition
A flying survey of some of the most influential texts on religion and politics from antiquity to our own time
What most Western thinkers in most centuries believed, but most of your teachers reject
Courses and syllabi
From the early American colonies to the contemporary American culture wars
We chatter about how the Founders have influenced us -- but what influenced them?
The Constitutional Convention, the Federalist essays, and the Anti-Federalist writings