Jerome C. Foss, PhD

Books:

We Govern by Tenderness: Flannery O’Connor and the History of Political Philosophy, Lexington Press, 2019.

Constitutional Democracy and Judicial Supremacy: John Rawls and the Transformation of American Politics, Amherst: Cambria Press, 2016.

Other publications:

“Macbeth and Christian Rule,” in Constitutionalism and Liberty: Essays in Honor of David K. Nichols (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2025).

“The Incredibles and Tocqueville: Preserving Human Excellence in Democratic Times” in Hollywood’s Western Union: The Politics of Blockbuster Films (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2025).

“Introduction,” The Life and Miracles of St. Benedict (Ascension Press, 2024).

“Dobbs and Civilization,” The Catholic Social Science Review 28 (2023).

“Republican Friendship and the Common Good,” Readings in American Government, Mary Nichols, David Nichols, and Kevin Burns, eds. (2022).

“Reading Gregory’s Life of Saint Benedict,” Conversatio 2 (2022).

“It is Right and Just is Wrong on Justice and the American Founding,” The Catholic Social Science Review 27 (2022).

“The Moral Imagination in Flannery O’Connor and Russell Kirk,” The Political Science Reviewer 45. 2 (2021): 427-452.

“On Reading James Madison: Constitutional Republican or Democratic Theorist?” in Democracy and the History of Political Thought (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2021).

“Orestes Brownson and the Liberal Tradition in America,” The Catholic Social Science Review 26 (2021): 77-87.

“The Intellectual Affinity of Flannery O’Connor and Alexis de Tocqueville,” American Political Thought 9.2 (Spring 2020): 317-334.

“Shakespeare’s Coriolanus and the Politics of Republics,” The Great Search: Rethinking the Liberal Arts and Sciences, Ann Charney Colmo, ed. Proceedings of the ACTC 2013 Conference (2020). https://www.coretexts.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/2013-ACTC-PROCEEDINGS.pdf

“Revisiting Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens with Leo Paul S. de Alvarez” Ramify (2019), 67-77.

“The Contemplative Mentality in Flannery O’Connor’s ‘Good Country People,’” The Catholic Social Science Review 22 (2017): 237–247.

“Madison, Lincoln, and Civic Education,” Expositions 10.1 (2016), 80–98.

“Is Justice Possible Without God?” in John Rawls and Christian Social Engagement: Justice as Unfairness, Anthony B. Bradley and Greg Forster, eds. (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2015).

“Economics and Political Thought,” in CQ Press Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought, Gregory Claeys, ed. (2013).

“Friendship and Politics in No Country for Old Men, Gran Torino, and Up,” Anamnesis 2.2 (2013), 72-99.

“Francisco Suárez, John Locke, and the Case for Toleration,” Perspectives in Political Science 42.2, (2013), 94-102.

“In Defense of Religious Freedom: A Response to Christopher Duncan,” Listening 47.1 (2012), 77-91.