Peter Augustine Lawler: Scholar, Teacher & Mentor

Review of Higher Education? How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids—and What We Can Do About It, by Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus & Crisis on Campus: A Bold Plan for Reforming Our Colleges and Universities, by Mark C. Taylor

Reviewed Work: Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy by Leo Strauss

Reviewed Works: The Strange Liberalism of Alexis de Tocqueville by Roger Boesche; Montesquieu's Comparative Politics and the Spirit of American Constitutionalism by Anne M. Cohler; Alexis de Tocqueville: Threats to Freedom in a Democracy by Michael Hereth; Tocqueville: A Biography by Andre Jardin, Lydia Davis, Robert Hemenway; Alexis de Tocqueville and the New Science of Politics by John Koritansky; Tocqueville and the Two Democracies by Jean-Claude Lamberti, Arthur Goldhammer; Tocqueville et la nature de la democratie by Pierre Manent; Selected Letters on Politics and Society by Alexis de Tocqueville, Roger Boesche, James Toupin

Reviewed Work: Conceptual Change and the Constitution Edited by Terence Ball and J.G.A. Pocock

Reviewed Work: The Problems of Communitarian Politics by Elizabeth Frazer

Reviewed Work: The Secret Mirror: Literary Form and History in Tocqueville's Recollections by L. E. Shiner

Reviewed Work: The Fragility of Freedom: Tocqueville on Religion, Democracy, and the American Future. by Joshua Mitchell

Reviewed Work: De Gaulle: Statesmanship, Grandeurs, and Modern Democracy by Daniel J. Mahoney

Reviewed Work: Piety and Humanity: Essays on Religion and Early Modern Political Philosophy by Douglas Kries

Reviewed Work: The Thonatos Syndrome by Walker Percy

Reviewed Work: Vindicating the Founders: Race, Class, and Justice in the Origins of America by Thomas G. West

Reviewed Work: John Dewey: America's Philosopher of Democracy by David Fott

Reviewed Work: Justice Among Nations: On the Moral Basis of Power and Peace by Thomas L. Pangle and Peter J. Arhrensdorf

Reviewed Work: The Death of Character: Moral Education in an Age Without Good or Evil" by James Davison Hunter

Reviewed Works: Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There by David Brooks and The Virtue of Prosperity: Finding Values in an Age of Techno-Affluence by Dinesh D'Souza

Reviewed Works: Educating the Prince: Essays in Honor of Harvey Mansfield edited by Mark Blitz and William Kristol and Friends and Citizens: Essays in Honor of Wilson Carey McWilliams by Dennis Bathory and Nancy L. Schwartz

Reviewed Work: Natural Rights and the Right to Choose by Hadley Arkes

Reviewed Work: Shelby Foote: A Writer's Life by C. Stuart Chapman

Reviewed Work: America After Tocqueville: Democracy Against Difference by MitchellHarvey

Reviewed Work: Liberalism under Siege: The Political Thought of the French Doctrinaires by Aurelian Craiutu

Reviewed Work: Brook Farm: The Dark Side of Utopia by Sterling Delano

Reviewed Work: A World Beyond Politics? A Defense of the Nation-State by Pierre Manent

Reviewed Works: Artificial Happiness: The Dark Side of the New Happy Class by Ronald W. Dworkin and Happiness: A History by Darrin M. McMahon

Reviewed Work: The Political Teachings of Jesus by Tod Lindberg.

Reviewed Work: Politics and the Order of Love: An Augustinian Ethic of Democratic Citizenship by Eric Gregory

Reviewed Work: The Conservative Foundations of the Liberal Order: Defending Democracy Against Its Modern Enemies and Immoderate Friends by Daniel J. Mahoney