Peter Lawler - ISI Speakers Bureau

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Peter Lawler

Dana Professor of Government, Berry College Rome, Georgia

Possible Lecture Topics

Tocqueville and Individualism
Indefinite Longevity and the Birth Dearth
Walker Percy

Websites

Lectures

The Morality of Immortality Wheaton College
They Built Better than They Knew: Orestes Brownson and the American Experiment The Adolphus Hotel, Dallas, TX
Alexis de Tocqueville Seattle, WA
Stuck with Freedom and Virtue Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
Is a Market in Kidneys a Violation of Human Rights or Human Dignity? Gonzaga University
Putting Locke Back in the Locke Box: Nisbet and the Emerging Communitarian Coalition in America Indianapolis, IN
The Limits of American Utopian Imagination: Reflections on David Brooks, Poet of Our Middle Class Belmont Abbey College, Belmont, North Carolina
The Problem of Technology ISI Honors Program, Oxford, England
Tocqueville, Biotechnology, and the Future of Human Liberty Belmont Abbey College
Are We All Libertarians Now? ISI F. M. Kirby Campus
Does Human Nature Have a Future? Fordham University
Leadership and Virtue in America Today Mount Vernon during the Washington Legacy Conference
Democracy in America ISI Piety Hill Conference, Mecosta, MI

Books

Articles

Our Friend Mr. Darwin?
Larry Arnhart, Darwinian Conservatism Modern Age, Summer 2006
Enhancement Technologies
Carl Elliott, Better Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream Modern Age, Spring 2005
The Change We Can Actually See (But Only Half Believe In) Intercollegiate Review, Fall 2011
Equally Not Nothing; A review of Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies by David Bentley Hart Intercollegiate Review, Fall 2010
A Conservative Conservationist
John R.E. Bliese, The Greening of Conservative America Modern Age, Summer 2002
The Human Dignity Conspiracy Intercollegiate Review, Spring 2009
Religion, Conservatism, and Liberationism Modern Age, Winter 2002
1968 in Context: Scarcity and Decade Analysis Intercollegiate Review, Fall 2008
The Socratic Philosopher and the American Individual Intercollegiate Review, Spring 2007
Francis Fukuyama as Teacher of Evil Modern Age, Winter 2000
Real Men Prove Darwin Wrong (Again) Intercollegiate Review, Fall 2006
Walker Percy, Catholic Socratic?
Kieran Quinlan, Walker Percy: the Last Catholic Novelist Modern Age, Spring 1998
Homeless on "Paradise Drive" Intercollegiate Review, Fall/Winter 2005
Liberal Conservatism, Not Conservative Liberalism, a review of Scruton´s The Meaning of Conservatism Intercollegiate Review, Fall 2003/Spring 2004
Conservative Postmodernism, Postmodern Conservatism Intercollegiate Review, Fall 2002
The Problem of Order
David J. Levy, Political Order: Philosophical Anthropology, Modernity, and the Challenge of Ideology Modern Age, Spring 1993
Nature, Grace, and The Last Days of Disco Intercollegiate Review, Spring 2000
The Dissident Professor Intercollegiate Review, Spring 1999
Democratic Therapy and the End of Community Intercollegiate Review, Spring 1997
Bloom on Socrates and America Modern Age, Winter 1988
Theology and America's Liberal Democracy Modern Age, Spring 1987
Sex, Drugs, Politics, Love, and Death: The Political Teaching of Walker Percy's Thanatos Syndrome Political Science Reviewer, Fall, 1998
Tocqueville and Revolution in His Souvenirs Intercollegiate Review, Spring 1991
Havel on Political Responsibility Political Science Reviewer, Fall, 1993
Thoughts on America's "Catholic Moment" Political Science Reviewer, Fall, 1988
Conservative Postmodernism, Postmodern Conservatism Intercollegiate Review, Orientation Issue 2008

Other Notable Publications

Books

Homeless and at Home in America: Evidence for the Dignity of the Human Soul in Our Time and Place St. Augustines Press; 1 edition (August 15, 2007)
Postmodernism Rightly Understood: The Return to Realism in American Thought Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (July 29, 1999)

Articles

Why We Need a 'Stuck with Virtue' Science in The New Atlantis, Summer 2011

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