About L. Joseph Hebert, Jr.

Dr. Joseph Hebert teaches Political Science and pre-law at St. Ambrose University. A summa cum laude graduate of The University of Maine, he completed his graduate studies at The University of Toronto in 2003. Dr. Hebert is the author of More than Kings and Less than Men: Tocqueville on the Promise and Perils of Democratic Individualism, and the co-editor of The Soul of Statesmanship: Shakespeare on Nature, Virtue, and Political Wisdom and Alexis de Tocqueville and the Art of Democratic Statesmanship.

Thomas More on Conscience, Courage, & the Comedy of Politics

By |2024-02-06T18:00:46-06:00February 6th, 2024|Categories: Christendom, Christian Humanism, Civil Society, England, History, Natural Law, Philosophy, Politics, St. Thomas More, Timeless Essays, Wisdom|

As the gulf between classical and postmodern notions of conscience and government grows ever wider and their clashes more explosive, it is high time for the jury to give renewed attention to the nuances of Thomas More’s understanding of the apparently competing, but ultimately harmonious, demands of divine, natural, and human law. In August of [...]

“Antigone” and the Necessity of Political Prudence

By |2022-11-06T15:36:43-06:00November 6th, 2022|Categories: Antigone, Government, Great Books, Politics, Religion, Sophocles, Timeless Essays|

A key lesson of Sophocles’ “Antigone” is that fanaticism results when public actors fail to practice the one virtue capable of moderating the excesses of human nature: political prudence. In an insightful essay (“Idolatry in Lockdown,” Law and Liberty, January 28, 2021), Spencer Klavan reflects on the contemporary significance of the conflict at the heart [...]

Music and the Education of the Christian Soul

By |2020-07-19T15:18:46-05:00August 18th, 2019|Categories: Antonio Vivaldi, Beauty, Christianity, Culture, Happiness, Heaven, Music, Timeless Essays|

In a world ringing with noise and suffused with the more or less artful idolizing of passions divorced from objective goods, where are we to find melodies capable of penetrating our hardened hearts with spiritual truths? In Plato’s Republic, Socrates leads a group of ambitious young Athenians on a search for the best way of [...]

Music and the Education of the Christian Soul

By |2023-07-27T22:41:56-05:00January 5th, 2019|Categories: Antonio Vivaldi, Audio/Video, Beauty, Christianity, Culture, Happiness, Heaven, Mother of God, Music, Sainthood|

In a world ringing with noise and suffused with the more or less artful idolizing of passions divorced from objective goods, where are we to find melodies capable of penetrating our hardened hearts with spiritual truths? In Plato’s Republic, Socrates leads a group of ambitious young Athenians on a search for the best way of [...]

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