Useful, interesting, some just amusing
Ph.D., Political Science, Yale University, 1981.
M.A., Political Science, University of Florida, 1977.
B.A., Political Science, University of South Florida, 1975.
Before matriculating at the University of South Florida, spent several years at the University of Chicago, followed by several years as a welder.
How the varieties of law are related
James Madison Program, Princeton, 2011
"Natural Law and Conscience." Afternoon seminar presented annually to The Blackstone Fellows, Washington, D.C., 2000-2019.
"The Classical Natural Law Tradition." Morning scholarly seminar at American Studies Center Summer Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 2011.
“Wages of Sin? How Much Can I Get?” Presentation at an Austin Institute / Thomistic Institute panel, “Getting Away With It? The Natural Consequences of Moral Wrong,” April, 2025.
Roundtable on "Natural Law." Acton Institute, Grand Rapids, Michigan, June, 2018.
James Wilson Institute. Participant in the Wilson Institute’s biennial roundtables on natural law and jurisprudence, chaired by Hadley Arkes, 2011-2015
“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.