Articles

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Hegel and John Paul II, First Things (2011)
 

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The Family: What is to Be Done?, Public Discourse (2011)

We have seen how the logic of contract and the movement to conquer nature have...

 

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The Family's End, Public Discourse (2011)

Family decline appears to be inevitable when viewed with a long perspective. The family has...

 

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"Hobbes, Bramhall and the Politics of Liberty and Necessity/Hobbes and Republican Liberty" [Book Reviews], Review of Politics (2009)
 

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Willa Cather's Turns, Perspectives on Political Science (2007)

Examining Willa Cather's corpus of literary works reveals several phases of her illustrious career. After...

 

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Revealed Religion and the Politics of Humanity in Hume's Philosophy of Common Life, Polity (2006)

Hume's philosophy of common life consists in two moments: philosophic agnosticism about deep irresolvable metaphysical...

 

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Humanity and Happiness: Philosophic Treatment of Happiness in a Non-Teleological World, Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy (2004)
 

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Natural Religion and Human Perfectibility: Tocqueville's Account of Religion in Modern Democracy, Perspectives on Political Science (2004)

Few issues are as troublesome as the problem of technology. On the level of common...

 

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Between Rationalism and Postmodernism: Hume's Political Science of our “Mixed Kind of Life”, Political Research Quarterly (2002)

Many recent studies of David Hume emphasize his criticism of Enlightenment rationalism, but these studies...

 

Books

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Family Politics: The Idea of Marriage in Modern Political Thought, Faculty Authored Books (2011)

With crisp prose and intellectual fairness, Family Politics traces the treatment of the family in...

 

Contributions to Books

Hate Crimes: Protected Prejudice or Punishable Motive? (with Jon Schaff), Moral Controversies in American Politics (2011)
 

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Federalism and David Hume's Perfect Commonwealth (with Will R. Jordan), The Ashgate Research Companion to Federalism (2009)

Alexander Hamilton bemoans, in Federalist No. 9, the disappointing record of Republican forms of government....

 

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Spontaneous Order and the Problem of Religious Revolution, Liberalism, Conservatism, and Hayek's Idea of Spontaneous Order (2007)

Hayek uses spontaneous order to explain how free markets operate and how they arise. Explaining...

 

The Framers Intended the Nation to be Based on Christian Values, Debating the Issues: American Government and Politics (2005)
 

Locke and the Problem of Friendship in Modern Liberalism, Love and Friendship: Rethinking Politics and Affection in Modern Times (2003)
 

Presentations

Political Philosophy in The Sun Also Rises, 4th Annual Ernest Hemingway Symposium (2012)
 

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Marriage and the Limits of Modern Political Thought, Beyond the Blue Faculty Podcasts, Boise State University (2011)

What is a family? In this podcast, Dr. Yenor discusses how family and marriage are...

 

An America's Founding and Future Lecture: The Family in the Liberal Order, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University (2011)
 

Lincoln and the Problem of Civil Rights During Wartime, AAUW (2011)

Today’s concerns about the Patriot Act and the status of our combatants in the War...