Books
International Comparative Approaches to Free Speech and Open Inquiry (FSOI) (Edited Volume, Forthcoming Palgrave Macmillan, September 2022).
Why Associations Matter: The Case for First Amendment Pluralism. University Press of Kansas (2020).
Reviewed in The Political Science Reviewer (symposium), Public Discourse, Christianity Today, Law and Liberty, The University Bookman, Claremont Review of Books, American Political Thought, The Independent Review, Review of Politics
Peer-Reviewed Publications
“Degradation and Revolution: A Taxonomy of Cancel Culture,” International Comparative Approaches to Free Speech and Open Inquiry (FSOI), ed. by Luke C. Sheahan (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), pp. 193-218.
“The Conservative Defense of Free Speech,” New Directions in the Ethics and Politics of Speech, ed. by J.P. Messina (Routledge, 2022), pp. 128-147.
“Imagination and Political Order in Robert Nisbet’s The Quest for Community,” Journal of Christian Legal Thought, Vol. 12, No. 2 (2022), pp. 15-23.
“Robert Nisbet: Art, History, and the Anti-Rationalism of Sociological Methodology,” Critics of Enlightenment Rationalism Revisited, ed. by Gene Callahan and Kenneth B. McIntyre (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), pp. 223-38.
“Nomocratic Pluralism: A Promising Proposal, but Problems at Implementation,” The Political Science Reviewer, Forthcoming 2022.
“Edmund Burke and Pluralism in the Historical, Political, and Sociological Thought of Robert Nisbet,” Studies in Burke and His Time, Vol. 30 (2021), Pgs. 140-148.
“C.S. Lewis: Reason, Imagination, and The Abolition of Man,” in Critics of Enlightenment Rationalism, ed. by Gene Callahan and Kenneth B. McIntyre (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), Pgs. 159-178.
“The Chartered Rights of Americans: First Amendment Rights in Historical Perspective,” Humanitas Vol. XXXII, Nos. 1 and 2 (2019), Pgs. 14-36.
“Antidote to Alienation: The Voluntary Association in the Work of Robert Nisbet.” Perspectives on Political Science, Vol. 48, Issue 4 (2019), Pgs. 290–300.
“Conservative, Pluralist, Sociologist: Robert Nisbet’s Burke,” Studies in Burke and His Time, Vol. 28 (2019), Pgs. 28–63.
“The State as Historical Necessity: Robert Nisbet’s Critique of Developmentalism,” The Political Science Reviewer, Vol. XLII, No. 2 (2018), Pgs. 431–468.
“The First Amendment Dyad and Christian Legal Society v. Martinez: Getting Past ‘State’ and ‘Individual’ to Help the Court ‘See’ Associations,” Kansas Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. XXVII, No. 2 (Spring 2018), Pgs. 223–260.
“The Shared Humanism of Irving Babbitt and C.S. Lewis: Will and Imagination in That Hideous Strength,” Humanitas, XXIX, Nos. 1 and 2 (2016), Pgs. 6–42.
“Guardians of the Word: Kirk, Buckley, and the Conservative Struggle with Academic Freedom,” Humanitas: Volume XXV, Nos. 1 and 2 (2012), Pgs. 44–65.
Edited Issues and Symposiums
“Should Groups Matter? Religion, Freedom, and Contemporary Civil Society,” co-edited with Daniel J.M. Cheely, Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society, Vol. 1 (Spring 2020).
Symposium on Robert Nisbet, Political Science Reviewer, Vol. XLII, No. 2 (2018).
Publications Under Review
“Authority, Hierarchy, and the Social Bond in the Aristocratic Mind of Robert Nisbet,” book chapter with editor.
“The Social Clerisy: The Political Philosophy of Pluralism”
Working Papers and Books
“‘The People’ of the Tenth Amendment: Social Authority and the Limitation of Government Power”
“Varieties of Constitutional Monism: Egalitarianism and the Common Good”
“State vs. Community: Robert Nisbet and the Post-Liberal Right”
“The Compound Republic of Speech: Vincent Ostrom, Alexander Meiklejohn, and the Meaning of Free Speech”
Freedoms Like a Fox: Liberalism, Pluralism, and the First Amendment (Manuscript in Progress)
Book Reviews and Other Scholarly Articles
Introduction to International Comparative Approaches to Free Speech and Open Inquiry (FSOI), Edited by Luke C. Sheahan (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), pp. 1-24.
“Protecting Freedom of Association,” National Affairs, No. 52 (Summer 2022), pp. 41-53.
Review of Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media by Jacob Mchangama, The Independent Review, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Fall 2022).
Review of Religion, Law, USA. Edited by Joshua Dubler and Isaac Weiner, Journal of Church and State (2021), Vol. 63, Issue 4 (Autumn 2021), Pages 730–732.
“Response to Critics,” The Political Science Reviewer, Vol. 44, No. 2 (2020), Pgs. 539-565.
“Freedoms Like a Fox: The Constitutional Community and First Amendment Rights,” PRRUCS, Vol. 1, pgs. 23–30 (Spring 2020).
“Pluralism in the Chinese Political Community: A Nisbetian Perspective on the State of Chinese Non-Governmental Organizations and Civil Society,” PRRUCS, Vol. 1, pgs. 31–47 (Spring 2020).
“Introduction: Should Groups Matter? Religion, Freedom, and Contemporary Civil Society,” co-authored with Daniel J.M. Cheely, PRRUCS, Vol. 1, pgs. i–ii. (Spring 2020)
“Why Democracy Needs Aristocracy,” review of Aristocratic Souls in Democratic Times, edited by Richard Avramenko and Ethan Alexander-Davey. Lexington Books, 2018. Humanitas, Vol. XXXIII, Nos. 1 & 2 (2020), Pgs. 132–137.
“Robert Nisbet: Reappraisal of a Political Sociologist,” Introduction to Symposium on Robert Nisbet. Political Science Reviewer, Vol. XLII, No. 2 (2018), Pgs. 385–397.
Liberal Arts Track Summary, PS: Political Science and Politics, (July 2018).
Review of The Soul of the First Amendment by Floyd Abrams, The Independent Review, Vol. 22, No. 4 (Spring 2018).
Review of The Power of Glamour by Virginia Postrel, Anamnesis: No. 6 (2017), Pgs. 150–161.
Review of Rethinking the Teaching of American History ed. by Michael Federici, Anamnesis: No. 4 (2015), Pgs. 138–144.
Review of Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate by Greg Lukianoff, The Journal of Value Inquiry: Volume 47, Issue 1 (2013), Pgs. 167–173.
Popular Articles and Reviews
“The Failure of Political Community,” Law and Liberty, July 14, 2022.
“Robert Nisbet’s Degradation of the Academic Dogma at 50,” Law and Liberty, September 17, 2021.
“Freedom to Speak or Freedom of Assembly?” Law and Liberty, August 16, 2021.
Review of The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again, by Robert Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett (Simon & Schuster, 2020) Law and Liberty, January 7, 2021.
“The Lost Art of Association,” Real Clear Public Affairs, December 16, 2020.
“Freedom for Associations,” Law and Liberty, September 28, 2020.
Review of The Historical Mind: Humanistic Renewal in a Post-Constitutional Age, edited by Justin D. Garrison and Ryan R. Holston (SUNY Press, 2020) in The University Bookman, September 13, 2020.
Review of A Constitution in Full: Recovering the Unwritten Foundation of American Liberty by Peter Augustine Lawler and Richard M. Reinsch II. (University Press of Kansas, 2019) in The University Bookman, August 16, 2020.
“Quest for Revolutionary Community,” Law and Liberty, July 6, 2020.
Amicus Briefs and Policy Papers
Amicus Curiae Brief, 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, Fellowship of Christian Athletes v. San Jose Unified School District Board of Education. On Rehearing en banc Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Case No. 20-cv-02798 (Coauthor with attorneys at Americans for Prosperity).
Luke C. Sheahan PhD 