“The Philosophical Politics of Leo Strauss,” University of Ottawa, April 6, 2006.

“Musings on Mortality,” Endowed Lecture, Department of Philosophy and Religion, University of Tulsa, August 28, 2005.

Workshop on Politics and Literature, 3 lectures for an Institute for High School HistoryTeachers, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho, May 3, 2005.

“Socratic Statesmanship,” Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, November 11, 2004.

“Socrates’ Understanding of Friendship,” Political Theory Brownbag, Indiana University, Department of Political Science, March 2004.

“Why Study Strauss?” Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, December 6, 2003.

“Leo Strauss as a Postmodern Political Thinker,” Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, December 8, 2003.

“Up from the Underground:  Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man,” for Gerst conference on “America’s Ambivalent Egalitarianism,” Duke University, April 4-5, 2003.

“Socrates–Revisited, Reinterpreted, Revived?” Hillsdale College, February 11, 2003.

“Tom Sawyer: Potential President,” Olin Center, University of Chicago, February 20, 2002.

“Freedom and Responsibility in the Novels of Mark Twain,” Wabash College, September 2001.

“Socrates’ Becoming,” Department of Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University, October 13, 2000.

“Cooper v. Cather,” Sinopoli Memorial Lecture in American Political Thought, Department of Political Science, University of California at Davis, March 14, 2000.

“Postmodernity v. Modernity: The Case of Richard Rorty,” Department of Political Science, Loyola University of Chicago, October 27, 1999.