Diana Schaub is a professor of political science at Loyola University Maryland and a scholar of political philosophy. She contributed essays to The Weekly Standard exploring themes of enlightenment, political thought, and American public life. She has served on the President's Council on Bioethics and is known for her work on the intersection of philosophy and democratic governance.
THE GUIDEBOOK IS A FLOURISHING GENRE. You could start with Maimonides’s twelfth-century Guide of the Perplexed and end with the 32,000 books the keyword "guide" brings up on Amazon.com. To seek a guidebook, whether on the mystery of the divine or the mystery of the carburetor, requires awareness of…
Amy Kass was a great reader of George Eliot; she also had the sympathetic imagination so prized by the author of Middlemarch. Even in the difficult, yet beautiful, final weeks in hospice care, Amy found the generous strength to study the novel’s opening pages with her oldest granddaughter, raising…
In the midst of the current controversies over the Martin Luther King and Dwight Eisenhower memorials in Washington, it’s worth examining the human impulse toward memorialization, so that we can appreciate what is at stake in the inevitable battles—aesthetic and moral—over the shapes our collective…
The Roads to Modernity