American Political Thought: Spring 2019 Issue

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American Political Thought Journal: Spring 2019 Issue

 

American Political Thought: A Journal of Ideas, Institutions, and Culture, has recently published its Spring 2019 issue, which includes pieces by JMC fellows Adam Seagrave, Peter Onuf, Rogers Smith, Lorraine Pangle, and Joseph Postell. The issue also features a symposium in honor of JMC faculty partner Michael Zuckert.

 


 

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Articles:

  1. The American Revolution and the New Moral History,” C. Bradley Thompson
  2. “‘Our End Was in Our Beginning’: Judith Shklar and the American Founding,” Giacomo Gambino

Natural Rights and American Constitutionalism: A Symposium in Honor of Michael Zuckert

  1. “Introduction,” S. Adam Seagrave
  2. “Why Is America Important? Michael Zuckert’s Lockean Natural Rights Theory,” S. Adam Seagrave
  3. “Madisonian ‘Paths of Innovation’: Michael Zuckert on the Political Science of James Madison,” Alan Gibson
  4. “Federalist Republican: Michael Zuckert’s James Madison,” Peter S. Onuf
  5. “Parallel and Intersecting Journeys with Michael Zuckert,” Mark Hulliung
  6. “Lockean Liberalism and American Constitutionalism in the Twenty-First Century: The Declaration of Independence or ‘America First’?” Rogers M. Smith

Book Reviews:

  1. When in the Course of Human Events: 1776 at Home, Abroad, and in American Memory, edited by Will R. Jordan,” Ryan Patrick Hanley
  2. The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775–1848, by Jonathan Israel,” Adam Dahl
  3. Thomas Jefferson, Legal History, and the Art of Recollection, by Matthew Crow,” Peter S. Onuf
  4. “‘A Great Power of Attorney’: Understanding the Fiduciary Constitution, by Gary Lawson and Guy Seidman,” Sotirios Barber
  5. Same-Sex Marriage and American Constitutionalism, by Murray Dry,” Lorraine Smith Pangle
  6. The Transformation of American Liberalism, by George Klosko,” Eldon J. Eisenach
  7. The Policy State: An American Predicament, by Karen Orren and Stephen Skowronek,” Joseph Postell
  8. God’s Country: Christian Zionism in America, by Samuel Goldman,” Richard Gamble

 


 

“Introduction to Natural Rights and American Constitutionalism: A Symposium in Honor of Michael Zuckert” S. Adam Seagrave

In his introduction, S. Adam Seagrave underscores the importance of Michael Zuckert’s inaugural editorial leadership at APT and of his “landmark intellectual contributions that reached a certain culmination in this role.”

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Michael ZuckertMichael P. Zuckert (B.A., Cornell University; PhD, University of Chicago, 1974) is a Jack Miller Center partner, Nancy Reeves Dreux Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame and Inaugural Editor of American Political Thought. Professor Zuckert taught graduate and undergraduate courses in Political Philosophy and Theory, American Political Thought, American Constitutional Law, American Constitutional History, Constitutional Theory, and Philosophy of Law. His advising specialties were graduate programs in political science.

Professor Zuckert has published extensively on a variety of topics, including George Orwell, Plato, Shakespeare, and contemporary liberal theory. He is currently finishing a book called Completing the Constitution: The Post-Civil War Amendments and is co-authoring another book on Machiavelli and Shakespeare. He has been commissioned to write the volume on John Rawls for a series on Twentieth Century Political Philosophy. He co-authored and co-produced public radio series Mr. Adams and Mr. Jefferson: A Nine Part Drama for the Radio. He also was senior scholar for Liberty! (1997), a six hour public television series on the American Revolution, and served as senior advisor on the PBS series on Benjamin Franklin (2002) and Alexander Hamilton (2007).

Professor Zuckert has received grants from NEH, the Woodrow Wilson Center, Earhart Foundation and NSF, and has taught at Carleton College, Cornell University, Claremont Men’s College, Fordham University, the University of Minnesota, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and the University of Chicago.

Professor Zuckert is a JMC faculty partner.

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Why Is America Important? Michael Zuckert’s Lockean Natural Rights Theory,” S. Adam Seagrave

In this essay, S. Adam Seagrave argues that the study of America “is not the deepest thread connecting all of Zuckert’s major published scholarship,” but that Zuckert’s interest in American political thought stems from his interest in America as a “regime ordered to natural rights.”

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Adam SeagraveS. Adam Seagrave is an Associate Professor at Arizona State University, as well as Associate Director of the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership and Associate Director of the Center for Political Thought and Leadership. He holds editorial roles with three journals: American Political Thought (University of Chicago Press), Starting Points, and Compass. Professor Seagrave’s teaching and research focus on American political principles, including both their application in American political history and their antecedents in intellectual history. He holds a doctorate from the University of Notre Dame.

Professor Seagrave is a JMC fellow.

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“Federalist Republican: Michael Zuckert’s James Madison,” Peter S. Onuf

In this contribution, Peter S. Onuf examines Michael Zuckert’s views on James Madison, natural rights in the modern republic, federalism, and the competing theories of federalism that existed during the Founding era.

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Peter OnufPeter S. Onuf is the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor of History, Emeritus, at the University of Virginia. He is also Senior Fellow at Monticello’s Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies. A leading scholar of Jefferson and the early American republic, he is the author, co-author, and editor of several books, including Jefferson’s Empire: The Language of American Nationhood (2001) and The Mind of Thomas Jefferson (2007). Professor Onuf is also a co-host of the weekly public radio program and podcast Backstory with the American History Guys.

Professor Onuf is a JMC fellow.

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“Lockean Liberalism and American Constitutionalism in the Twenty-First Century: The Declaration of Independence or ‘America First’?,” Rogers M. Smith

In this essay, Rogers M. Smith considers how Michael Zuckert’s work in American political thought and constitutional law relate to America’s modern political landscape. He particularly focuses upon Zuckert’s interest in the Lockean natural rights republicanism of the Founding.

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Rogers SmithRogers M. Smith is the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and President of the American Political Science Association for the year 2018-2019. Professor Smith centers his research on constitutional law, American political thought, and modern legal and political theory, with special interests in the questions of citizenship, race, ethnicity, and gender. He was elected as an American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow in 2004, a Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science in 2011, and a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2016. Professor Smith was voted President-Elect of the American Political Science Association for 2017-2018.

Professor Smith is a JMC fellow.

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“Thomas Jefferson, Legal History, and the Art of Recollection, by Matthew Crow,” Peter S. Onuf

Peter S. Onuf reviews JMC fellow Matthew Crow’s 2017 book, Thomas Jefferson, Legal History, and the Art of Recollection. Onuf finds it to contain “compelling intellectual portraits of two different Thomas Jeffersons…the civic humanist and constitutionalist who played a crucial role in the movement for independence, and the enlightened theorist of the new nation’s expanding continental empire.”

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Peter OnufPeter S. Onuf is the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor of History, Emeritus, at the University of Virginia. He is also Senior Fellow at Monticello’s Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies. A leading scholar of Jefferson and the early American republic, he is the author, co-author, and editor of several books, including Jefferson’s Empire: The Language of American Nationhood (2001) and The Mind of Thomas Jefferson (2007). Professor Onuf is also a co-host of the weekly public radio program and podcast Backstory with the American History Guys.

Professor Onuf is a JMC fellow.

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“Same-Sex Marriage and American Constitutionalism, by Murray Dry,” Lorraine Smith Pangle

Lorraine Smith Pangle reviews Murray Dry’s book Same-Sex Marriage and Constitutionalism, which examines the legal history of same-sex marriage in the Unites States as a case study of American political life.

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Lorraine PangleLorraine Smith Pangle is a Professor of Government and Co-Director of the Thomas Jefferson Center at the University of Texas at Austin. She teaches ancient, early modern, and American political philosophy, with special interests in ethics, the philosophy of education, and problems of justice and moral responsibility. Professor Pangle has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Earhart Foundation. Her publications include Virtue is Knowledge: The Moral Foundations of Socratic Political Philosophy (University of Chicago Press, 2014), The Political Philosophy of Benjamin Franklin (Johns Hopkins, 2007), and Aristotle and the Philosophy of Friendship (Cambridge, 2003).

Professor Pangle is a JMC fellow.

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“The Policy State: An American Predicament, by Karen Orren and Stephen Skowronek,” Joseph Postell

Joseph Postell reviews The Policy State: An American Predicament, by Karen Orren and Stephen Skowronek, which he describes as a “novel and significant contribution” to the topic of the transformation of American government. The book offers a “cohesive explanation” of the developments that have led to the current state of American government.

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Joseph PostellJoseph Postell is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, where he teaches courses on American political institutions, American political thought, and administrative law. His research focuses primarily on regulation, administrative law, and the administrative state. He is the editor of two books: Rediscovering Political Economy (with Bradley C.S. Watson) and Toward an American Conservatism (with Johnathan O’Neill). He is currently completing a book titled Bureaucracy in America: The Administrative State and American Constitutionalism (under contract). He also contributes frequently to the Liberty Fund’s “Library of Law and Liberty” website on political and legal thought.

Professor Postell is a JMC fellow.

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American Political Thought journal coverAmerican Political Thought: A Journal of Ideas, Institutions, and Culture is a JMC supported journal that bridges the gap between historical, empirical, and theoretical research. It is the only journal dedicated exclusively to the study of American political thought. Interdisciplinary in scope, APT features research by political scientists, historians, literary scholars, economists, and philosophers who study the foundation of the American political tradition. Research explores key political concepts such as democracy, constitutionalism, equality, liberty, citizenship, political identity, and the role of the state.

JMC is glad to announce the newest editors of the journal, JMC fellows Jeremy D. Bailey and Susan McWilliams. Nicholas Buccola, also a JMC fellow, will be the new book review editor.

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