“The Parental State: Individualism, Collectivism and Authority in Rousseau” – 37th Annual Meeting of Northeastern Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA,
November 17, 2005
“Rousseau’s Theory of the Family” – Politics and Lunch Series,
The Catholic University of America, Department of Politics, March 30, 2005
(Panelist) Liberty Fund Conference “Liberty and Culture in Irving Babbitt”, Indianapolis, IN, February 21-24, 2008
“The Intellectual Origins of the Parental State” at Academy of Philosophy and Letters Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD May 31, 2009
“Taxes and the Common Good” as part of panel discussion on Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, for Constitution Day, Belmont Abbey College, September 17, 2010
“The Fight against Illness and the Rights of the Unborn: Some Background” at Crusaders for Life Panel Discussion, Belmont Abbey College, February 7, 2012
“Collision Course? The Traditional Family and the 21st –Century State” Society of Catholic Social Scientists Annual Conference, Uniondale, Long Island, NY, October 27, 2012
“The Little Platoons vs. The State: Edmund Burke and the Catholic Response to Mass Society”
Society of Catholic Social Scientists Annual Conference, Franciscan University, Steubenville, OH, October 25, 2013
“New Christendom or New Secularization? : Jacques Maritain’s Vision of Western Democracy Revisited”, Society of Catholic Social Scientists Annual Conference, Mount St. Mary’s University, Emmitsburg, MD, October 24, 2014
“The United States of Europe? The Complex Past and Uncertain Future of the European Union,” Belmont Abbey College Faculty Lecture Series, February 25, 2015
(upcoming) “Beyond Tolerance?: Implications and Lessons of the Irish Same-Sex ‘Marriage’ Referendum,” Society of Catholic Social Scientists Annual Conference, Franciscan University, Steubenville, OH, October 24, 2015
Publications Articles
“The Ethics of Fetal Tissue Transplantation Research: A Review” The Linacre Quarterly (Journal of the Catholic Medical Association), vol.66, no.3 (August 1999), p.21-34
“Inequality” in New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-2013: Ethics and Philosophy, Vol. 2. (2013)
“Tolerance” in New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-2013: Ethics and Philosophy, Vol. 4. (2013)
Book: (upcoming) The State as Parent: Locke, Rousseau and the Transformation of the Family – University of Scranton Press.