PUBLIC DISCOURSE: Jean Bethke Elshtain
Jean Bethke Elshtain is Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago and the Thomas and Dorothy Leavy Chair in the Foundations of American Freedom at Georgetown University. She is author or co-author of over twenty books and over four hundred articles. She is the recipient of seven honorary degrees and was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996. A graduate of Colorado State University, she received her Ph.D. from Brandeis University.
Publications
Sovereignty: God, State, Self (2008)
Just War against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World (2003)
Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy (2002)
Who Are We? Critical Reflections and Hopeful Possibilities. Politics and Ethical Discourse (2000)
New Wine in Old Bottles: International Politics and Ethical Discourse (1998)
The King Is Dead (1998)
Political Mothers (1998)
Real Politics: Political Theory and Everyday Life (1997)
Augustine and the Limits of Politics (1996)
Democracy on Trial (1995)
But Was It Just?: Reflections on the Morality of the Persian Gulf War (1992)
Power Trips and Other Journeys (1990)
Women and War (1987)
Meditations on Modern Political Thought (1986)
Public Man, Private Woman: Women in Social and Political Thought (1981)
Public Discourse
Around the Web
Around the Web
The Generation That Can't Move On Up
Andrew J. Cherlin and W. Bradford Wilcox
Wall Street Journal
Reject "Burn a Quran Day"
Jennifer S. Bryson
Washington Post
Review of Reasonable Faith
Ryan T. Anderson
First Things
Review of The Social and Political Thought Benedict XVI
Ryan T. Anderson
First Things
Free to Choose
Ryan T. Anderson
Weekly Standard
Vast Dangers - Confirmed
Hadley Arkes
First Things
Daddy Was Only a Donor
W. Bradford Wilcox
Wall Street Journal
To the Teapartiers
Luis Tellez
Daily Caller
A New Voice for the American Right
John Haldane
Standpoint
Confused on Fertilization
Patrick Lee and Robert P. George
National Review
Lame Ducks in Love
Harold James
Project Syndicate
Review of God, Philosophy and the University
Ryan T. Anderson
First Things
Review of Aquinas: A Beginner's Guide
Ryan T. Anderson
First Things
The Weight of Smut
Mary Eberstadt
First Things
Faith in Government
Ryan T. Anderson
Weekly Standard
The Victims of Internet Pornography
Katherine Kersten
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
The Nixon Shock Doctrine Revisited
Harold James
Project Syndicate
Getting Serious About Pornography
Anonymous
National Review
The Liberal Dance with Incoherence
Hadley Arkes
The Catholic Thing
The Lukewarm Generation
W. Bradford Wilcox
First Things
Back to Basics
Ryan T. Anderson
National Review
Last Lecture
James R. Stoner
First Principles
Why Big Banks Will Get Bigger
Harold James
Turkish Weekly
Love in an Economic Downturn
W. Bradford Wilcox
National Review
The Return of British Anti-Semitism
Gabriel Schoenfeld
The Weekly Standard
Robert P. George:
The Conservative-Christian Big Thinker
David D. Kirkpatrick
The New York Times
Can the Recession Save Marriage?
W. Bradford Wilcox
The Wall Street Journal
The Holy Seers
Ryan T. Anderson
The Weekly Standard
Voice of Love, Hand of Repression
Hadley Arkes
The Catholic Thing
Reason for Faith
Ryan T. Anderson
The Weekly Standard
The Evolution of Divorce
W. Bradford Wilcox
National Affairs
The Value of History
A review of Harold James
The Economist
Gay Marriage, Democracy, and the Courts
Robert P. George
The Wall Street Journal
Andrew J. Cherlin and W. Bradford Wilcox
Wall Street Journal
Reject "Burn a Quran Day"
Jennifer S. Bryson
Washington Post
Review of Reasonable Faith
Ryan T. Anderson
First Things
Review of The Social and Political Thought Benedict XVI
Ryan T. Anderson
First Things
Free to Choose
Ryan T. Anderson
Weekly Standard
Vast Dangers - Confirmed
Hadley Arkes
First Things
Daddy Was Only a Donor
W. Bradford Wilcox
Wall Street Journal
To the Teapartiers
Luis Tellez
Daily Caller
A New Voice for the American Right
John Haldane
Standpoint
Confused on Fertilization
Patrick Lee and Robert P. George
National Review
Lame Ducks in Love
Harold James
Project Syndicate
Review of God, Philosophy and the University
Ryan T. Anderson
First Things
Review of Aquinas: A Beginner's Guide
Ryan T. Anderson
First Things
The Weight of Smut
Mary Eberstadt
First Things
Faith in Government
Ryan T. Anderson
Weekly Standard
The Victims of Internet Pornography
Katherine Kersten
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
The Nixon Shock Doctrine Revisited
Harold James
Project Syndicate
Getting Serious About Pornography
Anonymous
National Review
The Liberal Dance with Incoherence
Hadley Arkes
The Catholic Thing
The Lukewarm Generation
W. Bradford Wilcox
First Things
Back to Basics
Ryan T. Anderson
National Review
Last Lecture
James R. Stoner
First Principles
Why Big Banks Will Get Bigger
Harold James
Turkish Weekly
Love in an Economic Downturn
W. Bradford Wilcox
National Review
The Return of British Anti-Semitism
Gabriel Schoenfeld
The Weekly Standard
Robert P. George:
The Conservative-Christian Big Thinker
David D. Kirkpatrick
The New York Times
Can the Recession Save Marriage?
W. Bradford Wilcox
The Wall Street Journal
The Holy Seers
Ryan T. Anderson
The Weekly Standard
Voice of Love, Hand of Repression
Hadley Arkes
The Catholic Thing
Reason for Faith
Ryan T. Anderson
The Weekly Standard
The Evolution of Divorce
W. Bradford Wilcox
National Affairs
The Value of History
A review of Harold James
The Economist
Gay Marriage, Democracy, and the Courts
Robert P. George
The Wall Street Journal
