fbpx
Facebook Twitter Instagram Youtube Rss
Search
Close this search box.
Picture of Kody Wayne Cooper

Kody Wayne Cooper

Kody W. Cooper is UC Foundation Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and 2023-2024 Visiting Fellow with the Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the coauthor of The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics: Political Theology, Natural Law, and the American Founding (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

Divided America

Conservatism and Identity Politics: A Review of George Hawley’s Conservatism in a Divided America

By
This book illuminates the path the modern conservative movement has taken heretofore and therefore will be an important aid to conservatism’s ongoing quest for self-definition.

Joker and the Need for Family

By
Critics of Joker have missed the central message of the story: the descent into madness begins with the breakdown of the family and fatherhood.

The Civil Rights Issue of Our Time? In Defense of School Choice

By and
Faced with a national educational disaster that permanently cripples so many of America’s neediest children’s life chances, it is not “anti-public school” to advocate for voucher experiments. It is true to our republican aspirations to enable at least some of these kids the chance to attend a private school.

Faith, Reason, and Leo Strauss

By
Both believing and non-believing students of Strauss will find Leo Strauss and His Catholic Readers rewarding.

Dishonoring the Dead: Moral and Constitutional Considerations on Fetal Disposition

By and
Texas’s humane dispositions aren’t about trying to sneakily ban abortion. They’re about whether states will be coerced to affirm abortion as a positive good rather than merely tolerating it as a tragic necessity.

Love, Not Power: Diagnosing our Body Politic

By and
The deepest wellspring of human action is not power but love—the appetite to love and care for others and to be loved and cared for. Any healing of our broken political system must proceed on the basis of this basic truth about its parts.
Facebook Twitter Instagram Youtube Rss
Public Discourse © 2024 | All Rights Reserved