Lee Cheek and Carey Roberts, Author at The Imaginative Conservative

About Lee Cheek and Carey Roberts

H. Lee Cheek, Jr., Ph.D., is Senior Contributor at The Imaginative Conservative. He is Dean of the Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science and History at East Georgia State College, and a Senior Fellow of Alexander Hamilton Institute. He is also a United Methodist minister and former U.S. Army chaplain. His books include Calhoun and Popular Rule and Confronting Modernity, among others. Carey Roberts, Ph.D. is Online Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of History at Liberty University. He earned a M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina and serves on the board of the Abbeville Institute. His most recent work is a new scholarly edition of William Gilmore Simms’ Captain John Smith: The Founder of Virginia (South Carolina Press).

Jurgen Habermas, John C. Calhoun, and Slavery

By Lee Cheek and Carey Roberts|2020-04-03T20:48:09-05:00April 3rd, 2020|Categories: American Republic, History, John C. Calhoun, Slavery, South|

Perhaps no American thinker has suffered more from a scholarly hegemony of discourse than John C. Calhoun, whose work and personage are often dismissed by his critics for a single phrase attributed to him, diminishing the careful and complicated analysis he deserves. The careful reader does not have to be a devotee of Jürgen Habermas [...]