Politics and Literature, co-editor with Michael Zuckert, special issue, Legal Studies Forum, Vol. 22, No. 4 (1998), 343 pages.

Newspaper Articles

"Democracy in America--150 Years Later," syndicated column distributed by Public Research Syndicated, published in The Cleveland Plain Dealer, March 22, 1985 as well as several other smaller papers.

“The Stranger’s Political Science v. Socrates’ Political Art,”the online Journal of the International Plato Symposium, Winter 2005.

“The Socratic Turn,” History of Political Thought 25 (Summer 2004): 189-219.

“Plato’s Laws: Postlude or Prelude to Socratic Political Philosophy?” Journal of Politics, Vol. 66 (May 2004): 374-95.

“Who’s a Philosopher?  Who’s a Sophist? The Stranger v. Socrates,” Review of Metaphysics 54 (September 2001): 65-97.

“Leadership–Natural and Conventional–in Melville’s Benito Cereno,” Interpretation, Vol. 26, No. 2 (Winter 1999): 239-55.

"Plato's Parmenides–A Dramatic Reading," Review of Metaphysics  51 (June 1998): 840-71.

"Why Political Scientists Want to Study Literature," PS:  Political Science & Politics, Vol. XXVIII, No. 2 (June1995): 189-90.

"The Postmodern Problem," Perspective, Vol. 24, No. 2 (Spring 1995): 87-94; reprinted in Gregory M. Scott, ed., Political Science:  Foundations for a Fifth Millenium (Prentice Hall, 1997) as the example of current writing in the sub-field of political theory.

"On the 'Rationality' of Rational Choice," Political Psychology, Vol. 16, No. 1, 1995: 179-98.

"The Politics of Derridean Deconstruction," Polity, Vol. 22, No. 3 (Spring 1991): 335-57.

"The Political Roots of the Battle of the Books," College Teaching (Summer 1990).

"Martin Heidegger:  His Politics and His Philosophy," in Political Theory, Vol. 18, No. 1 (February 1990): 51-79.

"Nietzsche's Rereading of Plato," Political Theory, Vol. 13, No. 2 (May 1985): 213-38, reprinted in David W. Conway, ed., Critical Assessments:  Friedrich Nietzsche (New York: Routledge, 1998), Vol. IV, pp. 382-404.

"Huck at 100," Claremont Review of Books, Vol. 4, No. 4 (Winter 1985).

"Law and Nature in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," Proteus, Vol. 1 (Fall 1984): 27-35; reprinted in M. Thomas Inge, ed., Huck Finn among the Critics: A Centennial Selection (Frederick, MD:  UPA, 1985). Pp. 231-46.

"Nietzsche on the Origin and Development of the Distinctively  Human," Polity, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Fall 1983): 48-71.

"Reagan and that Unnamed Frenchman (De Tocqueville):  On the Rationale for the New (Old) Federalism," Review of Politics, Vol. 43, No. 3 (July 1983): 421-42.

"Aristotle on the Limits and Satisfactions of Political Life," Interpretation, Vol. 11, No. 2 (May 1983): 185-206. 

"On Reading Classic American Novelists as Political Thinkers," Journal of Politics Vol. 43, No. 3 (August 1981): 683-706.

"Not by Preaching:  Tocqueville on the Role of Religion in American Democracy," Review of Politics, Vol. 43, No. 2 (April 1981): 259-80.

"The Political Thought of Nathaniel Hawthorne," Polity, Vol. 13, No. 2 (Winter 1980): 163-83.

"American Women and Democratic Morals: The Bostonians," Feminist Studies, Vol. 3, No. 3/4 (Spring-Summer 1976): 30-50, reprinted in David L. Schaefer, The New Egalitarianism (Kenninkat, 1979).

"Nature, History and the Self:  Friedrich Nietzsche's Untimely Considerations, in Nietzsche-Studien, Band 5 (1976): 55-82.

" '. . . and in its wake we followed,' The Political Thought  of Mark Twain," with Michael Zuckert, Interpretation (Summer l972): 49-66.

I have written for the American Political Science Review, Review of Politics, Constitutional Commentary, College Teaching, Political Theory, the Political Economy and the Good Society newsletter, Academic Questions, and International Studies in Philosophy.  

In 2003 I published “Poetic Justice,” a review of Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War: Civil War Poems, by Herman Melville, ed. Richard H. Cox and Paul M. Dowling (Prometheus Books, 354 pages) in the Claremont Review of Books, Vol. 3, No. 2 (April 2003), pp. 15-16. 

Review of Peter Euben, Platonic Noise (Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 2003), Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 2, No. 2 (June 2004): 355-56.

“Plato’s Poetry,” review of Ramona Naddaff, Exiling the Poets: The Production of Censorship in Plato's Republic (Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 2003), Claremont Review of Books, Volume 5, Number 1 (Winter 2004): 65-66.