About Claes G. Ryn
Claes G. Ryn is Emeritus Professor of Politics at the Catholic University of America (C.U.A.) and Distinguished Senior Fellow and Founding Director at the Center for the Study of Statesmanship at the same university. Dr. Ryn taught also at Georgetown University, the University of Virginia, and Louisiana State University. In 2012 he was named Honorary Professor at Beijing Normal University. He was a doctoral and undergraduate student at Uppsala University in his native Sweden but took his Ph.D. at Louisiana State University. His many books include America the Virtuous: The Crisis of Democracy and the Quest for Empire; A Common Human Ground: Universality and Particularity in a Multicultural Age; Democracy and the Ethical Life: A Philosophy of Politics and Community; Will, Imagination and Reason: Babbitt, Croce and the Problem of Reality; and the novel A Desperate Man, a moral-political drama. His book The Failure of American Conservatism and the Road Not Taken is forthcoming from Republic Book Publishers. Dr. Ryn was for 35 years Co-Editor of the academic journal Humanitas and was Chairman and co-founder of the National Humanities Institute, President of the Academy of Philosophy and Letters, and President of the Philadelphia Society.