Books
Books
Why Associations Matter: The Case for First Amendment Pluralism. University Press of Kansas (2020).
Reviewed in The Political Science Reviewer (symposium), Political Science Quarterly, American Political Thought, Review of Politics, Journal of Church and State, The Independent Review, Public Discourse, Christianity Today, Law and Liberty, The University Bookman, Claremont Review of Books
Edited Volumes
Freedom of Association, Vol. I: In Theory, edited with Kenneth McIntyre (Palgrave, 2025).
Freedom of Association, Vol. II: Application, edited with Kenneth McIntyre (Palgrave, 2025).
International Comparative Approaches to Free Speech and Open Inquiry (FSOI) (Edited Volume, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).
Peer-Reviewed Publications
“The Ordered Liberty of Assembly: The Covenants and Practices of Self-Government in the Plural Constitutional Community,” Notre Dame Law Review, forthcoming (2026).
“Teaching the Texts as Teaching Self-Government: Virtues, Principles, and Practices,” The Political Science Reviewer, forthcoming (2026).
“Monism Under Any Other Name: Robert Nisbet and the Postliberal Challenge, Perspectives on Political Science, Vol. 54, No. 3, pp. 176–188 (2025).
“Democratic Self-Government and the Freedom of Association: Alexis de Tocqueville on the Quintessential American Freedom,” in Freedom of Association, Vol. II: Application ed. by Luke C. Sheahan and Kenneth B. McIntyre (Palgrave, 2025), pp. 73-98.
“A Laissez Faire of Groups: The Social Group as Free Association in the Thought of Robert Nisbet,” in Freedom of Association, Vol. II: Application ed. by Luke C. Sheahan and Kenneth B. McIntyre (Palgrave, 2025), pp. 149-173.
“Authority, Hierarchy, and the Social Bond in the Aristocratic Mind of Robert Nisbet,” in Aristocratic Voices: Forgotten Arguments About Virtue, Authority, and Inequality, ed. by Richard Avramanko and Ethan Alexander-Davey, Lexington Books (2025).
“‘The People’ of the Tenth Amendment: A Constitutional Theory of Town and Civil Society,” The Journal of American Political Thought, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 309-336 (Summer 2024).
“The Social Clerisy: Conservative Political Philosophy as a Philosophy of Pluralism and the Social Group,” The Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues, Vol. 24: Issue 1, pp. 121-143 (2023).
“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
“State v. Local Community: Robert Nisbet’s Philosophy of Pluralism and the Political Origins of Alienation”
“Alexis de Tocqueville’s Associations and their Meaning for American Democracy”
“Classical Liberalism and Open Inquiry: Confronting Two Challenges to Freedom of Speech and Open Inquiry”
“Plurality, Liberty, and Society: First Amendment Rights as Differentiated Self-Government”
Working Papers and Books
“Toward the Definition of a Social Group: Friendship and the Freedom of Association”
“Varieties of Constitutional Monism: Egalitarianism and the Common Good”
“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 (in Progress)
Other Scholarly Articles and Essays
Foreword, The Social Philosophers by Robert Nisbet (American Philosophical Society Press, 2025; reissue of 1973 edition).
Introduction (coauthored with Kenneth McIntyre), Freedom of Association, Vol. I: In Theory, edited with Kenneth McIntyre (Palgrave, 2025).
Introduction (coauthored with Kenneth McIntyre), Freedom of Association, Vol. II: Application, edited with Kenneth McIntyre (Palgrave, 2025).
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.
“Freedoms Like a Fox: The Constitutional Community and First Amendment Rights,” PRRUCS, Vol. 1, pp. 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, pp. 31–47 (Spring 2020).
“Introduction: Should Groups Matter? Religion, Freedom, and Contemporary Civil Society,” co-authored with Daniel J.M. Cheely, PRRUCS, Vol. 1, pp. i–ii. (Spring 2020).
“Robert Nisbet: Reappraisal of a Political Sociologist,” Introduction to Symposium on Robert Nisbet. The Political Science Reviewer, Vol. XLII, No. 2 (2018), pp. 385–397.
Liberal Arts Track Summary, PS: Political Science and Politics, (July 2018).
Scholarly Book Reviews
Review of The First Amendment: Essays on the Imperative of Intellectual Freedom, ed. by Tara Smith, The Independent Review, Vol. 30, No. 2 (Fall 2025).
“Public Policy for a New Regime,” review essay of Regime Change by Patrick Deneen. Pietas, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Fall 2024).
Review of Liberty Lost: The Rise and Demise of Voluntary Association in America Since Its Founding by Robert Wright, The Independent Review, Vol. 29, No. 1 (Summer 2024).
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, Vol. 63, Issue 4 (Autumn 2021), pp. 730–732.
“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), pp. 132–137.
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), pp. 150–161.
Review of Rethinking the Teaching of American History ed. by Michael Federici, Anamnesis: No. 4 (2015), pp. 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), pp. 167–173.
Other Articles and Reviews
“The One, the Many, and the In-Between,” Review of The One and the Ninety-Nine: Forging Identity in the Age of Social Contagion by Luke Burgis, Law and Liberty, September 21, 2026
“Community and American Rights,” an essay on The Myth of American Individualism: The Protestant Origins of American Political Thought, by Barry Alan Shain, Reading Wheel Review, September 17, 2026
“On Robert Nisbet,” Law and Liberty, August 24, 2026
“Americans of Many Turns,” Review of American Odyssey: What an Ancient Story Reveals About Our Divided Souls, by Patrick J. Deneen, National Review, August 20, 2026
“What the American Revolution Secured: Order, Justice, and Freedom,” The University Bookman, March 15, 2026.
Review of Teaching the Virtues, by David Hein, Constitutional Discourse, January 25, 2026
Introduction to the US Constitution, America’s Autobiography—The Core Documents that Tell Our Story, ed. by Gary L. Gregg, Nathan Coleman, and Meghan Waters (2026)
Introduction to the Bill of Rights, America’s Autobiography—The Core Documents that Tell Our Story, ed. by Gary L. Gregg, Nathan Coleman, and Meghan Waters (2026)
“The Intrinsic Argument for Free Speech,” Review of The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage by Jonathan Turley, The University Bookman, March 16, 2025.
“Survival of the Loving,” an Essay on Hannah’s Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth by Catherine Ruth Pakaluk, Reading Wheel Review, December 19, 2024
“Comments on Hiro Aida’s Speech on Russell Kirk and Japan,” The University Bookman, April 28, 2024.
“The Christian and Classical Roots of American Order,” The University Bookman, December 31, 2023.
“Revolutionary Degradation,” Law and Liberty, December 13, 2023.
“The Quest for Fraternity,” Review of The Idea of Fraternity in America, 50th Anniversary Edition by Wilson Carey McWilliams, Law and Liberty, November 21, 2023.
“Social Inventions and the Cultivation of Character,” The Ford Forum, April 20, 2023.
“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
Occasional Paper, “Thinking about Civil Society and Cross-Sector Collaboration: Robert Nisbet, the Plural Community, and the Potential for Three-Way Wins,” Penn Partnership for Innovation, Cross-Sector Collaboration, Leadership, and Organization (PICCLO), 2024.
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).
