About Luke Sheahan

Luke Sheahan is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Duquesne University; Senior Affiliate, Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society (PRRUCS) at The University of Pennsylvania; editor, The University Bookman; Faculty Fellow, Beatrice Institute; and president of The Academy Of Philosophy & Letters.

Guardians of the Word: Kirk, Buckley, and the Conservative Struggle with Academic Freedom

By |2023-04-27T22:23:37-05:00May 20th, 2014|Categories: Education, Liberal Learning, Russell Kirk, William F. Buckley Jr.|Tags: |

The Conservative Movement’s Perpetual Civil War The conflict between advocates of the free market and traditionalist conservatives dates from the beginning of the modern conservative movement. Never have traditionalists and classical liberals comfortably shared the same space. The differences and ensuing conflicts between these two strands within modern American conservatism have been well documented. In [...]

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