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    Gladden J. Pappin

    University of Dallas

    1845 E. Northgate Dr.
    Irving, Tex. 75062
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    • Gladden J. Pappin is assistant professor of politics at the University of Dallas, deputy editor of American Affairs, and permanent research fellow and senior adviser of the Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame. He is a 2017 member of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, and a member of the Osage Nation.

      His research areas include contemporary politics and the roots of modern politics, the role of novelty, innovation and technology in political life, and ecclesiastical politics. His articles and reviews appear in History of Political Thought, the Review of Metaphysics, Perspectives on Political Science, Comunicazioni sociali, Modern Age, the Intercollegiate Review, the Claremont Review of Books, First Things, the Journal of Markets and Morality, and elsewhere.

      He has been a visiting scholar at the Centre d'études du Saulchoir (summer 2016/17) and has received fellowships from the Charles Koch Foundation (2016–2017), the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture (2014–2017), the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study (2013), Harvard's Program on Constitutional Government (2012–2013) and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (2005–2012), the Earhart Foundation (2010–2011), the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (2009–2010), and the Osage Tribal Nation (2000–2004). He has been a lecturer in political science at the College of the Holy Cross and at the University of Notre Dame, and has been a concurrent assistant professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School.

      He received his Ph.D. in government (2012) and A.B. magna cum laude in history (2004), both from Harvard, where his undergraduate thesis on the prehistory of modern rights theories won the Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize. After college he worked at the Citigroup Private Bank, and also as an instructor at a private school in Ohio. He was born in St. Louis.

    Recent Publications

    • Automation, AI and the Politics of Human Distinction
    • Review of The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction, by Mark Lilla
    • Review of Modernity and Its Discontents: Making and Unmaking the Bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow, by Steven B. Smith
    • Review of The Quotable Machiavelli, by Maurizio Viroli
    • The Mutual Concerns of Leo Strauss and His Catholic Contemporaries: Passerin d'Entrèves, McCoy, Simon
    • Review of Liberty and Law: The Idea of Permissive Natural Law, 1100–1800, by Brian Tierney
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    • SohrabAhmari
      SohrabAhmari I’m delighted to announce that the publishing arm of @MCC_Budapest will publish a Hungarian edition of my book THE UNBROKEN THREAD: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos. (Polish- and Spanish-language editions are also in the works.)
      1 hour 48 min ago.
    • PostlibOrder
      PostlibOrder “The assertion ‘it can’t happen’ is only ever the assertion ‘I can’t imagine it happening.’ It speaks only to the imaginative limitations of the speaker.” @Vermeullarmine pens his first essay at @PostlibOrder, on the poverty of political imagination. t.co/fnm69JBHiA
      2 hours 51 min ago.
    • gjpappin
      gjpappin « The idealists, the critics . . . have in my lifetime been far more realistic . . . about the capacious and flexible limits of political and legal change » —@Vermeullarmine in his first @PostlibOrder post, up today! t.co/RHbCLU9QxT
      2 hours 23 min ago.
    • JamesWHankins1
      JamesWHankins1 Finally, a legal scholar who thinks like an historian. Suggest reasons for futility topos, 1 listening too much to political consultants and pollsters, 2 Marxoid myth of the Right Side of History “It Can’t Happen”; Or, the Poverty of Political Imagination t.co/SjqVF3V9WD
      2 hours 59 min ago.
    • Vermeullarmine
      Vermeullarmine My first entry ⁦@PostlibOrder⁩ - on the limits of political imagination t.co/gObiKAh7rQ
      3 hours 35 min ago.
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