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John M. Olin Center,
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Associate Professor, Political Science and the College, University of Chicago, 1981-1992; Social Thought 1990-1992
Assistant Professor, Political Science and the College, University of Chicago, 1978-1981
Assistant Professor, Government, Harvard University, 1975-1977
Instructor, Government, Harvard University, 1974-1975
Committee on Social Thought, Co-Chair January 1992-June 1994, Chair July 1997-June 1998
Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy, trans. with notes and introduction by Harvey C. Mansfield and Nathan Tarcov (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996)
John Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education and On The Conduct of the Understanding, ed. with Ruth Grant (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co., 1996)
The Legacy of Rousseau, ed. with Clifford Orwin (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996)
Meanings of Revolution, ed. with François Furet (forthcoming)
"Locke's Second Treatise and 'The Best Fence Against Rebellion,'" in Review of Politics 43 (1981): 198-217
"Political Thought in Early Modern Europe II: The Age of Reformation" (review article on Quentin Skinner's The Foundations of Modern Political Thought, in volume II), Journal of Modern History 54 (1982): 56-65
"Quentin Skinner's Method and Machiavelli's Prince," in Ethics 92 (1982): 692-709
"Liberalism, Conservatism, and Contemporary American Foreign Policy," a reply to Marshall Cohen, in Symposium: Toward a Liberal Foreign Policy, University of Maryland Center for Philosophy and Public Policy, working Paper LI-1, March 1983
"Philosophy and History: Tradition and Interpretation in the Work of Leo Strauss," in Polity 16 (Fall 1983): 5-29
"A Non-Lockean' Locke and the Character of Liberalism," in Liberalism Reconsidered, ed. Douglas MacLean and Claudia Mills, Maryland Studies in Public Philosophy (Totowa, N.J.: Rowman and Allanheld, 1983)
"Principle and Prudence in Foreign Policy: The Founders' Perspective," in The Public Interest 76 (1984): 45-60
"American Constitutionalism and Individual Rights," in How Does the Constitution Secure Rights?, ed. Robert Goldwin and William Schambra (Washington: American Enterprise Institute, 1985)
"Terrorism: What Should We Do?," in This World 12 (1985): 63-66
"Federalists and Anti-Federalists on Foreign Affairs," in Teaching Political Science: Perspectives on Politics 14 (1986): 38-45
"Popular Sovereignty," in Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, ed. Leonard Levy and Kenneth L. Karst (New York: Macmillan, 1986)
"An Epilogue: Leo Strauss and the History of Political Philosophy," with Thomas L. Pangle, in History of Political Philosophy, 3rd ed., ed. Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987)
"The Spirit of Liberty and Early American Foreign Policy," in Understanding the Political Spirit: Philosophical Investigations from Socrates to Nietzsche, ed. Catherine Zuckert (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988)
"If This Long War is Over," in The National Interest 18 (1989): 50-53
"Principle, Prudence, and the Constitutional Division of Foreign Policy," in Foreign Policy and the Constitution, ed. Robert Goldwin and Robert Licht (Washington: American Enterprise Institute, 1990)
"The Social Theory of the Founders," in Confronting the Constitution, ed. Allan Bloom (Washington: American Enterprise Institute, 1990)
"War and Peace in The Federalist," in Political Science Reviewer, 19 (Spring 1990):87-106
"On a Certain Critique of 'Straussianism'" in Review of Politics 53 (1991): 3-18
"John Locke" in Encyclopedia of Democracy, ed. Seymour Martin Lipset (Washington: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1995)
"The Meanings of Democracy" in Democracy, Education, and the Schools, ed. Roger Soder (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1995)
"John Locke and the Foundations of Toleration," in Early Modern Skepticism and the Origins of Toleration, ed. Alan Levine (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 1999)
"Public Intellectuals and Graduate Education" in Minnesota Review 50:1 (1999)
"Machiavelli and the Foundations of Modernity," in American Constitutionalism and Political Philosophy ed. Mark Blitz and William Kristol, forthcoming
"Meanings of Revolution, Ancient and Modern," in Meanings of Revolution, ed. François Furet and Nathan Tarcov, forthcoming
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