PUBLIC DISCOURSE: Robert P. George

Robert P. George is the Director of the Program in
Political Thought and Constitutional Government and the Herbert W.
Vaughan Senior Fellow of the Witherspoon Institute. He is McCormick
Professor of Jurisprudence and Founder and Director of the James
Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton
University. He is also a Professor of Politics and an associated
faculty member of the Department of Philosophy at Princeton. He is a
member of the Presidents Council on Bioethics, and previously
served as a presidential appointee to the United States Commission
on Civil Rights. He is a former Judicial Fellow at the Supreme Court
of the United States, where he received the Justice Tom C. Clark
Award.

Professor Georges articles and review essays have appeared in the
Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the
Columbia Law Review
, the University of Chicago Law Review,
the Review of Politics, the Review of Metaphysics,
and the American Journal of Jurisprudence. He is a frequent
contributor to First Things, where he is a member of the
editorial advisory board, and has also written for the New York
Times
, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington
Post
, National Review, Touchstone, the

Boston Review, City Journal, and the Times
Literary Supplement.

Among his awards and prizes are the Bradley Prize for Intellectual
and Civic Achievement, the Philip Merrill Award of the American
Council of Trustees and Alumni, the Sidney Hook Award of the
National Association of Scholars, the Richard M. Weaver Award for
Scholarly Letters, the Paul Bator Award of the Federalist Society
for Law and Public Policy, a Silver Gavel Award of the American Bar
Association, and the Stanley Kelley, Jr. Teaching Award in Politics
at Princeton. He was the 2007 John Dewey Lecturer in Philosophy of
Law at Harvard.

Professor George serves on the boards of directors of the Lynde and
Harry Bradley Foundation, the Ethics and Public Policy Center, the
Institute for American Values, the Institute on Religion and
Democracy, the Family Research Council, and the Center for
Individual Rights. He serves on editorial boards of the American
Journal of Jurisprudence
, the Journal of International
Biotechnology Law
, and Touchstone and First Things
magazines. Professor George is general editor of New Forum Books, a
Princeton University Press series of interdisciplinary works in law,
culture, and politics.

In addition to his academic work, he is a member of the Council on
Foreign Relations and serves as Of Counsel to the law firm of
Robinson and McElwee.

A graduate of Swarthmore College and Harvard Law School, Professor
George also earned a masters degree in theology from Harvard and a
doctorate in philosophy of law from Oxford University. He was
elected to Phi Beta Kappa at Swarthmore, and received a Knox
Fellowship from Harvard for graduate study in law and philosophy at
Oxford. He holds honorary doctorates of law, letters, ethics, humane
letters, civil law, and science.

Publications:
Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality (1993)
Embryo: A Defense of Human Life (2008) with Christopher Tollefsen
Body-Self Dualism in Contemporary Ethics and Politics (2008) with Patrick Lee
The Meaning of Marriage (2005) with Jean Bethke Elshtain
The Clash of Orthodoxies (2001)
Great Cases in Constitutional Law (2000) (editor)
In Defense of Natural Law (1999)
Natural Law, Liberalism, and Morality (1996) (editor)
The Autonomy of Law: Essays on Legal Positivism (1996)
(editor)
Natural Law Theory: Contemporary Essays (1992) (editor)

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Public Discourse
Around the Web
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
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