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Peter Augustine Lawler

Contributing Editor

Peter Augustine Lawler, a New Atlantis contributing editor, is Dana Professor of Government at Berry College and the author, most recently, of Homeless and at Home in America: Evidence for the Dignity of the Human Soul in Our Time and Place (St. Augustine Press, 2007).


In The New Atlantis


Human Dignity and Higher Education

Number 26 ~ Fall 2009 - Winter 2010

Nations, Liberalism, and Science

Number 23 ~ Winter 2009

Our Proud Human Future

Number 18 ~ Fall 2007

Is the Body Property?

Number 14 ~ Fall 2006

The Caregiving Society

Number 8 ~ Spring 2005

Restless Souls

Number 4 ~ Winter 2004

The Rise and Fall of Sociobiology

Number 1 ~ Spring 2003

Books


  • Aliens in America: The Strange Truth About Our Souls
  • Postmodernism Rightly Understood: The Return to Realism in American Thought
  • Homeless and At Home in America: Evidence for the Dignity of the Human Soul in Our Time and Place
  • Stuck with Virtue
  • American Political Rhetoric: A Reader
  • Democracy and Its Friendly Critics: Tocqueville and Political Life Today
  • The Restless Mind
  • Faith, Reason, and Political Life Today
  • The American Experiment
  • A Question of Values: John Galtung's Peace Research
  • American Views of Liberty
  • Under God with Liberty: The Religious Dimension of the American Idea of Liberty
  • Faith, Morality, and Civil Society
  • Community and Political Thought Today
  • Tocqueville's Defense of Human Liberty: Current Essays

    • Other Publications


  • “Reflections on My Termination: Obama Dismisses Members of the President’s Council on Bioethics,” Weekly Standard, June 19, 2009
  • “Stuck With Virtue in Our Pro-Life Future,” Society, May 2009
  • “The Human Dignity Conspiracy,” First Principles, April 17, 2009
  • “The Human Dignity Conspiracy,” Intercollegiate Review, Winter 2009
  • “Culture Wars,” First Principles, December 18, 2008
  • “1968 in Context: Scarcity and Decade Analysis,” Intercollegiate Review, Fall 2008
  • “The Young, Smart, Pretty, and Industrious (The Future that Awaits Them!),” Encyclopedia Britannica Blog, October 8, 2008
  • “Our Crisis of Self-Evidence,” Society, August 2008
  • “A Human Person, Actually,” City Journal, April 18, 2008
  • “Manliness, Religion, and Our Manly Scientists,” Society, April 2008
  • “The Warrior and the Preacher,” Ashbrook Center Editorial, February 2008
  • “The Candidate’s Religion,” Ashbrook Center Editorial, January 2008
  • “Saving Liberalism from Itself,” Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2007
  • “Reason, Sentiments, and Personal Significance,” Society, May 2007
  • “The Socratic Philosopher and the American Individual,” Intercollegiate Review, Spring 2007
  • “Against the Lobotomites,” The Good Society, November 3, 2006
  • “McWilliams and the Problem of American Political Education,” Perspectives on Political Science, Fall 2006
  • “Real Men Prove Darwin Wrong (Again),” Intercollegiate Review, Fall 2006
  • “Toward a Consistent Ethic of Judicial Restraint,” Society, July 2006
  • “Where’s the Love?,” Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2006
  • “Our Friend Mr. Darwin?,” Modern Age, Summer 2006
  • “Tocqueville at 200,” Perspectives on Political Science, Spring 2006
  • “Homeless on 'Paradise Drive',” Intercollegiate Review, Fall—Winter 2005
  • “Crisis of Caring,” The Dallas Morning News, October 23, 2005
  • “Bennett's Point: Babies are Good!,” Ashbrook Center Guest Commentary, October 2005
  • “The Problem of Technology,” Perspectives on Political Science, Summer 2005
  • “The Limits of American Utopianism,” Society, July 2005
  • “Filibuster Fallacy,” National Review Online, May 6, 2005
  • “Virtue Voters,” Society, May 2005
  • “Enhancement Technologies,” Modern Age, Spring 2005
  • “Individual Limits,” The Good Society, November 3, 2004
  • “The Last Puritans,” Public Interest, Fall 2004
  • “Back to Nature,” National Review Online, October 13, 2004
  • “More Than a Contract,” National Review, June 28, 2004
  • “‘Under God’ and Meaning It,” National Review Online, June 21, 2004
  • “Communism Today,” Society, May 2004
  • “Pursuing Happiness,”National Review Online, December 22, 2003
  • “Liberal Conservatism, Not Conservative Liberalism,” Intercollegiate Review, Fall 2003—Spring 2004
  • “Supreme Mocking,” National Review Online, October 22, 2003
  • “Epic Historian,” The Weekly Standard, June 14, 2003
  • “Last Man Standing,” Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2003
  • “Orestes Brownson and the Truth About America,” First Things, December 2002
  • “Conservative Postmodernism, Postmodern Conservatism,” Intercollegiate Review, Fall 2002
  • “The Right Choice,” The Weekly Standard, November 16, 2002
  • “Libertarian Fantasy and Statist Reality,” Society, November 2002
  • “A Conservative Conservationist,” Modern Age, Summer 2002
  • “The Libertarian Threat to Human Liberty,” Ashbrook Center Guest Commentary, May 2002
  • “Religion, Conservatism, and Liberationsim,” Modern Age, Winter 2002
  • “Does Human Nature Have a Future?,” The Weekly Standard, February 4, 2002
  • “Compassionate Conservatism,” Ashbrook Center Guest Commentary, November 2001
  • “Bobo Virtue and the Future of Human Liberty,” Human Events, May 28, 2001
  • “The End of History Again,” Society, March 2001
  • “Francis Fukuyama as Teacher of Evil,” Modern Age, Winter 2000
  • “Nature, Grace, and the Last Days of Disco,” Intercollegiate Review, Spring 2000
  • “The Dissident Professor,” Intercollegiate Review, Spring 1999
  • “Sex, Drugs, Politics, Love, and Death,” Political Science Reviewer, Fall 1998
  • “Walker Percy, Catholic Socratic?,” Modern Age, Spring 1998
  • “Democratic Therapy and the End of Community,” Intercollegiate Review, Spring 1997
  • “De Gaulle’s Greatness,” Weekly Standard, July 22, 1996
  • “Tocqueville on the Doctrine of Interest,” Government and Opposition, April 1995
  • “Havel on Political Responsibility,” Political Science Reviewer, Fall 1993
  • “The Problem of Order,” Modern Age, Spring 1993
  • “Tocqueville and Revolution in His Souvenirs,” Intercollegiate Review, Spring 1991
  • “Relativism, American Education, and Democracy,” Southeastern Political Review, 1989
  • “Bloom on Socrates and America,” Modern Age, Winter 1988
  • “Thoughts on America’s "Catholic Moment",” Political Science Reviewer, Fall 1988
  • “Theology and America’s Liberal Democracy,” Modern Age, Spring 1987
  • “Tocqueville on Religion and Human Excellence,” Southeastern Political Review, 1983