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  • Living Constitution, Dying Faith

    Progressivism and the New Science of Jurisprudence

    by Bradley C. S. Watson ...
    A "living" constitution. Runaway courts. Legislating from the bench.These phrases come up a lot in the national political debate. They raise the ire of many Americans.But where did the ideas come from? Why do courts play a role so alien to the one the American Founders outlined? And how did unelected judges gain so much power in our democratic republic?Political scientist and legal philosopher ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Progressivism

    The Strange History of a Radical Idea

    by Bradley C. S. Watson ...
    At its core this book is intellectual history, tracing the work of progressive historians as they in turn wrote the history of progressivism.In Progressivism: The Strange History of a Radical Idea, Bradley C. S. Watson presents an intellectual history of American progressivism as a philosophical-political phenomenon, focusing on how and with what consequences the academic discipline of history ... Read more

    $22.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Diversity, Conformity, and Conscience in Contemporary America

    by Matthew J. Franck, Bruce P. Frohnen, Kenneth L. Grasso, Alan Charles Kors, Jeffrey J. Ventrella, Ryan T. Anderson, Mary Grabar, Joseph M. Knippenberg, Vincent Phillip Muñoz, Bradley C. S. Watson ...
    America is a nation that celebrates diversity and freedom of conscience. Yet, as Alexis de Tocqueville observed, democratic times often demand conformity. Nowadays, conformity might be enforced in the name of diversity itself, and go so far as to infringe on the rights of conscience, expression, association, and religious freedom. Americans have recently been confronted by this paradox in various ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • The American Founding and the Social Compact

    by Edward J. Erler, Steven Forde, Peter C. Myers, John Paynter, Karl Walling, Bradley C. S. Watson, Jean M. Yarbrough, Michael Zuckhert ...
    Unlike many other books about the American founding, this new work by two of the most prominent scholars of American political history emphasizes the coherence and intelligibility of the social compact theory. Social compact theory, the idea that government must be based on an agreement between those who govern and those who consent to be governed, was one of the Founders' few unifying ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • The West at War

    by Ambassador Akbar Ahmed, Robert Alt, Alberto R. Coll, Barry Cooper, David D. Corey, Leon Craig, James Kurth, Paul Marshall, David Tucker, Bradley C. S. Watson, Kenneth R. Weinstein1 ...
    In The West at War, Bradley C. S. Watson brings together renowned scholars and public policy experts to reflect on perhaps the most pressing problem of our time-the West's increasingly bloody conflict with forces that seek nothing less than its destruction. In eleven provocative chapters, contributors deal with the internal challenges and external conflicts facing Western civilization in the ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Rediscovering Political Economy

    by Bruce Caldwell, Samuel Hollander, Peter McNamara, Larry Schweikart, Richard Wagner, Thomas G. West, Alan Levine, John Mueller, Robert A. Sirico, Bradley C. S. Watson0 ...
    The recent economic crisis in the United States has highlighted a crisis of understanding. In this volume, Bradley C. S. Watson and Joseph Postell bring together some of America's most eminent thinkers on political economy-an increasingly overlooked field wherein political ideas and economic theories mutually inform each other. Only through a restoration of political economy can we reconnect ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Freedom and the Rule of Law

    by Edward Whelan, Jeremy Rabkin, Joyce Lee Malcolm, Katharine Inglis Butler, Louis Fisher, V James Strickler, Joseph Postell, Bradley C.S. Watson, Ralph A. Rossum ...
    Freedom and the Rule of Law takes a critical look at the historical beginnings of law in the United States, and how that history has influenced current trends regarding law and freedom. Anthony Peacock has compiled articles that examine the relationship between freedom and the rule of law in America. Although this is a theme that has been a perennial one since America's founding, it is also one of ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Progressive Challenges to the American Constitution

    A New Republic

    Edited by Bradley C. S. Watson ...
    In this volume, Bradley C. S. Watson brings together the leading scholars who have sparked one of the most important intellectual and political movements of our times: the criticism of the progressive intellectual synthesis that has dominated American thought and politics over much of the last century, and has provided the framework in which the administrative state has expanded and flourished. ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • History of American Political Thought

    by Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga, George Alecusan, John E. Alvis, Donald R. Brand, Paul O. Carrese, Daniel T. Carrigg, Laurence D. Cooper, Murray Dry0, Thomas S. Engeman1, Peter S. Field2, Christopher Flannery3, Steven Forde4, David F. Forte5, David Foster6, David Fott7, Matthew J. Franck8, Peter B. Josephson9, Steven Kautz0, John Koritansky1, Harvey C. Mansfield2, Sean Mattie3, Jonathan Marks4, James McClellan5, Peter C. Meyers6, Lance Robinson7, Michael J. Rosano8, Richard S. Ruderman9, Richard Samuelson0, David Lewis Schaefer1, Peter Schotten2, Kimberly C. Shankman3, Natalie Taylor4, Aristide Tessitore5, Eduardo A. Velásquez6, Karl-Friedrich Walling7, Melissa S. Williams8, Jean M. Yarbrough9, Lucas E. Morel0, James R. Stoner Jr.1, Michael Zuckert2, Jean Bethke Elshtain3, Steven F. Hayward4, Peter Augustine Lawler5, James A. Morone6, Ronald J. Pestritto7, William G. Thomas8, Daryl M. Tress9, David Tucker0, Bradley C. S. Watson1 ...
    Revised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to what the most thoughtful Americans have said about the American experience from the colonial period to the present. The book examines the political thought of the most important American statesmen, activists, and writers across era and ideologies, helping another generation of students, scholars, and ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Relevance of Higher Education

    Exploring a Contested Notion

    by Stephen Clements, Michael Schwartz, Jason R. Jividen, Michael Wayne Hail, Jon M. Fennell, Mark Jonas, James Scott Johnston, Bryan R. Warnick, Lee Trepanier, Wayne Willis, Bradley C.S. Watson, Wilfred M. McClay ...
    Most statements today about higher education begin with the assumption that it should be relevant. That it should be relevant, however, does not settle the matter. The significance of relevance depends on the power of something else that is more fundamental. Relevance may be a true standard of judgment, but it does not stand by itself. Assuming higher education should be relevant, the question ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Western Civilization and the Academy

    by Stephen H. Balch, Patrick J. Deneen, Toby Huff, Rob Koons, Daniel J. Mahoney, Anthony O’Hear, Norma Thompson, Anthony M. Esolen ...
    This volume brings together leading thinkers who offer reflections on the place of Western civilization in the academy, at a time when there is indifference or even antipathy toward the study of the West at most institutions of higher learning. Alternative narratives—including multiculturalism, diversity, and sustainability—have come to the fore in the stead of Western civilization. The present ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • The Idea of the American University

    by John Agresto, William B. Allen, Gary D. Glenn, Susan E. Hanssen, Mark C. Henrie, William Mathie, Peter Wood, Michael P. Foley, Peter Augustine Lawler, Rev. James V. Schall, Bradley C. S. Watson ...
    As John Henry Newman reflected on 'The Idea of a University' more than a century and a half ago, Bradley C. S. Watson brings together some of the nation's most eminent thinkers on higher education to reflect on the nature and purposes of the American university today. They detail the life and rather sad times of the American university, its relationship to democracy, and the place of the liberal ... Read more

    $105.29 USD