The Dilemmas of American Conservatism

Contributors

Contributors KENNETH L. DEUTSCH is professor of political science at SUNY Geneseo . In 2003 he was the recipient of the State University of New York Award for Scholarship and Research. He has published five books on political theory, the most recent a textbook entitled An Invitation to Political Thought (Cengage, 2008). ETHAN FISHMAN is professor of political science at the University of South Alabama. Among his publications are Likely Stories: Essays on Political Philosophy and Contemporary American Literature (University of Florida Press, 1989) and The Prudential Presidency: An Aristotelian Approach to Presidential Leadership (Praeger, 2001). His essay “Not Compassionate, Not Conservative,” which originally appeared in The American Scholar, was reprinted in The Best American Political Writing of 2007 (Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2007). PETER AUGUSTINE LAWLER is Dana professor of government at Berry College. He was a member of President Bush’s Council on Bioethics and is executive editor of Perspectives on Political Science. He has written or edited a dozen books, including The Restless Mind: Alexis de Tocqueville on the Origin and Perpetuation of Liberty (Rowman and Little field, 1993), Postmodernism Rightly Understood (Rowman and Little- field, 1999), Stuck with Virtue (ISI Books, 2005), and Homeless and at Home in America (St. Augustine’s Press, 2007). He was a recipient of the Richard M. Weaver Prize in Scholarly Letters. DANIEL MCCARTHY is senior editor of The American Conservative. ROBERT A. PRESTON was president of Belmont Abbey College from 1995 to 2001. After his retirement, he served as executive director of the Bradley Institute for the Study of Christian Culture, which he founded in 1996. He also served as executive director of the Ingersoll Prizes and oversaw the awarding of the Richard M. Weaver Prize for Scholarly Let- 204  Contributors ters. His essay “Ideas Have Consequences Fifty Years Later” appeared in Steps toward Restoration: The Consequences of Richard Weaver’s Ideas (ISI Books, 1998). LINDA C. RAEDER is associate professor of political science at Palm Beach Atlantic University. She has been associate editor of Humanitas, published by the National Humanities Institute, since 1994. Her publications include John Stuart Mill and the Religion of Humanity (University of Missouri Press, 2002), as well as various book chapters and articles on the nature and development of the Anglo-American liberal tradition. GERALD J. RUSSELLO is a fellow at the Chesterton Institute at Seton Hall University and editor of The University Bookman. He is the author of The Postmodern Imagination of Russell Kirk (University of Missouri Press, 2007) and editor of Christianity and European Culture: Selections from the Work of Christopher Dawson (Catholic University of America Press, 1998). BRAD LOWELL STONE is professor of sociology and director of American studies at Oglethorpe University. He authored Robert Nisbet: Communitarian Traditionalist (ISI Publishers, 2001) and wrote the introduction to Nisbet’s Conservatism: Dream and Reality (Transaction Publishers, 2002). JAMES L. WISER is provost of the University of San Francisco. His scholarship focuses on classical Greek political philosophy and contemporary German political thought. He is the author of Political Philosophy: A History of the Search for Order (Prentice-Hall, 1983) and Political Theory: A Thematic Inquiry (Wadsworth, 1986) and the editor of Eric Voegelin, History of Political Ideas, volume 5, Religion and the Rise of Modernity (University of Missouri Press, 1998). ...