Faculty Profiles

DeHart, P. R. (2025). “The Freedom of Associations: The Necessity of Local Government for Republican Form.” In The Freedom of Associations (pp. 81–108). London, United Kingdom: Palgrave MacMillan.

DeHart, P. R. (2025). Paul DeHart on Natural Law, Consent, and the Social Contract. The Sower (Podcast). United States: Ciceronian Society.

DeHart, P. R. (2024). The Social Contract in the Ruins: Natural Law and Government by Consent. Columbia, Missouri, United States: University of Missouri Press. Retrieved from https://upress.missouri.edu/9780826223050/the-social-contract-in-the-ruins/

DeHart, P. R. (2024). The Social Contract with Paul DeHart. Why Postliberalism Failed (Episode 13). United States. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVRcFCuF9TQ

DeHart, P. R. (2024). The Social Contract in the Ruins: A Conversation with Dr. Paul DeHart. Madison’s Notes (Episode 10, Vol. Season 4). Princeton, NJ, United States: The James Madison Program of Princeton University. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT12fEX3-M4

DeHart, P. R. (2024). The Social Contract in the Ruins? Public Discourse. Princeton, NJ, United States: The Witherspoon Institute. Retrieved from https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2024/10/96115/

DeHart, P. R. (2024). An Interview with Paul R. DeHart. Bala Cynwyd, PA, United States: Jack Miller Center. Retrieved from https://jackmillercenter.org/interview/an-interview-with-paul-r-dehart

DeHart, P. R. (2023). What Is a Republic? National Affairs, 56(Summer 2023), 152–164. Retrieved from https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/what-is-a-republic

DeHart, P. R., & Oakerson, R. J. (2022). Are Local Governments Mere Creatures of the States? National Affairs, (Spring 2022), 51–64. Retrieved from https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/are-local-governments-mere-creatures-of-the-state

DeHart, P. R. (2021). Whose Social Contract?: Hobbes versus Hooker and the Realist Social Contract Tradition. Catholic Social Science Review, 26, 3–21. Retrieved from https://www.pdcnet.org/cssr/content/cssr_2021_0026_0003_0021

DeHart, P. R. (n.d.). Does Locke Really Think We Own Ourselves?: Divine Ownership as the Basis of Limited Government in Locke’s Political Theory. Modern Age.

DeHart, P. R. (Ed.). (2021). Roberty Reilly’s America on Trial: Commentary and Critique. Catholic Social Science Review (2021st ed., Vol. 26, pp. 3–55). United States: Society of Catholic Social Scientists. Retrieved from https://www.pdcnet.org/collection-anonymous/browse?fp=cssr&fq=cssr%2FVolume%2F8974%7C26%2F

DeHart, P. R. (2020). The Return of the Sacral King: The Christian Subversion of the Roman Empire and the Modern State. Catholic Social Science Review, 25(2020), 51–65. Retrieved from https://www.pdcnet.org/cssr/content/cssr_2019_0024_0019_0031

DeHart, P. R. (2020, July). What Made the Founders Happy. Chronicles, 26–28. Retrieved from https://chroniclesmagazine.org/reviews/what-made-the-founders-happy/

DeHart, P. R. (2020). On the First Principles of Moral Reason. Public Discourse. Princeton, NJ, United States: The Witherspoon Institute. Retrieved from https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2020/07/64302/

DeHart, P. R. (2020). Why I Am a Natural Lawyer. Law & Liberty. United States: Liberty Fund. Retrieved from https://lawliberty.org/why-i-am-a-natural-lawyer/

DeHart, P. R. (2019). Why “Why Liberalism Failed” Fails as an Account of the American Order. Catholic Social Science Review, 24(2019), 19–31. Retrieved from https://www.pdcnet.org/cssr/content/cssr_2019_0024_0019_0031

DeHart, P. R. (2019). The Rise and Fall (and Restoration) of Western Civilization. Public Discourse. Princeton, NJ, United States: The Witherspoon Institute. Retrieved from https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2019/10/57393/

DeHart, P. R. (2019). Wise Politics: Classical Philosophy, Medieval Christianity, and the Contemporary World. In Where Wisdom May Be Found (pp. 67–80). Eugene, Oregon, United States: Pickwick Publications (an imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers).

DeHart, P. R. (2018). The Loss of Learning and the Vocationalization of Higher Education. The American Mind. United States.

DeHart, P. R. (2018). The First Amendment Didn’t Separate Church and State; Christianity Did. Public Discourse. Princeton, NJ, United States: The Witherspoon Institute. Retrieved from https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2018/04/21381/

DeHart, P. R. (2017). Uncovering the Constitution’s Moral Design. Columbia, Missouri, United States of America: University of Missouri Press.

DeHart, P. R. (2017). What’s Wrong with Rod Dreher’s Straussian Narrative of the American Constitution. Public Discourse. Princeton, NJ, United States: The Witherspoon Institute. Retrieved from https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2017/12/20325/

DeHart, P. R. (2017). Contra Leo Strauss, There’s No Conflict between Reason and Revelation. Public Discourse. Princeton, NJ, United States: The Witherspoon Institute. Retrieved from https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2017/10/20119/

DeHart, P. R. (2017). Nature’s Lawgiver: On Natural Law as Law. Catholic Social Science Review, 22(2017), 53–71. Retrieved from https://www.pdcnet.org/cssr/content/cssr_2017_0022_0053_0071

DeHart, P. R. (Ed.). (2017). Contemporary Thomist: J. Budziszewski and Nature’s Law. Catholic Social Science Review (2017th ed., Vol. 22, pp. 3–90). United States: Society of Catholic Social Scientists. Retrieved from https://www.pdcnet.org/collection-anonymous/browse?fp=cssr&fq=cssr%2FVolume%2F8978%7C22%2F

DeHart, P. R. (2017). After Easter: The Political Theology of the Crucifixion and the Resurrection. Public Discourse. Princeton, NJ, United States: The Witherspoon Institute. Retrieved from https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2017/04/18837/

DeHart, P. R. (2017). Madisonian Thomism. Public Discourse. Princeton, NJ: The Witherspoon Institute. Retrieved from https://www.thepublicdiscourse.c/Users/pd18/Documents/Texas State Laptop  07:16:2022/Texas State/Publication Materials and Conference Papers/Published Articles, Books, and Book Chapters/Web journals:Webzines/Madisonian Thomism - Public Discourse.pdfom/2017/01/18427/

DeHart, P. R. (2016, April). A Review of The Christian Roots of Religious Freedom (Marquette University Press, 2014) by Robert Louis Wilken. The Journal of Church and State. United States: Marquette University Press. Retrieved from https://academic.oup.com/jcs/article-abstract/58/2/359/1750965?redirectedFrom=fulltext

DeHart, P. R., & Stuart, K. (2015). Taxing Churches Would Marry Church and State. The Federalist. Retrieved from https://thefederalist.com/2015/09/28/taxing-churches-would-marry-church-and-state/

DeHart, P. R. (2015). The Unsoundness of Judicial Supremacy. Public Discourse. Princeton, NJ: The Witherspoon Institute. Retrieved from https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2015/07/15266/

DeHart, P. R. (2015). Huckabee, the Constitution, and Judicial Power. The Federalist.

DeHart, P. R., & Holloway, C. (Eds.). (2014). Reason, Revelation, and the Civic Order: Political Philosophy and the Claims of Faith. DeKalb, IL and Ithaca, NY, United States: Northern Illinois University Press (an Imprint of Cornell University Press). Retrieved from https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780875804842/reason-revelation-and-the-civic-order/#bookTabs=1

DeHart, P. R., DeHart, P. R., & Holloway, C. (2014). Political Philosophy after the Collapse of Classical, Epistemic Foundationalism. In Reason, Revelation, and the Civic Oder: Political Philosophy and the Claims of Faith (pp. 33–63). DeKalb, IL and Ithaca, NY, United States: Northern Illinois University Press (an imprint of Cornell University Press). Retrieved from https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780875804842/reason-revelation-and-the-civic-order/#bookTabs=1

DeHart, P. R., & Holloway, C. (2014). Introduction. In Reason, Revelation, and the Civic Order: Political Philosophy and the Claims of Faith (pp. 3–13). DeKalb, IL and Ithaca, NY, United States: Northern Illinois University Press (an imprint of Cornell University Press). Retrieved from https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780875804842/reason-revelation-and-the-civic-order/#bookTabs=1

DeHart, P. R. (2013). Leviathan. In R. L. Fastiggi (Ed.), The New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-2013: Ethics and Philosophy (pp. 888–890). Detroit, United States: Gale, Cengage. Retrieved from https://www.gale.com/ebooks/9781414482255/new-catholic-encyclopedia-supplement-2012-2013-ethics-and-philosophy

DeHart, P. R. (2013). Leviathan Leashed: The Incoherence of Absolute, Sovereign Power. Critical Review, 25, 1–37. Retrieved from https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08913811.2013.823759

DeHart, P. R. (2012). Reason and Will in Natural Law. In J. Covington, B. McGraw, & M. Watson (Eds.), Natural Law and Evangelical Political Theory (pp. 125–152). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield). Retrieved from https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739173220/Natural-Law-and-Evangelical-Political-Thought

DeHart, P. R. (2012). Fractured Foundations: The Self-Contradiction between Locke’s Ontology and His Moral Philosophy. Locke Studies, 12, 111–148. Retrieved from https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/locke/issue/view/111

DeHart, P. R. (2012). Covenantal Realism: The Self-Referential Incoherency of Conventional Social Contract Theory and the Necessity of Consent. Perspectives on Political Science, 41, 165–177. Retrieved from https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10457097.2012.692643?journalCode=vpps20

DeHart, P. R. (2011, September). A Review of Politics for the Greatest Good: The Case for Prudence in the Public Square (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2009) by Clark D. Forsythe. International Philosophical Quarterly. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press. Retrieved from https://www.pdcnet.org/ipq/content/ipq_2011_0051_0003_0407_0412

DeHart, P. R. (2011, July). A Review of Constitutional Illusions & Anchoring Truths: The Touchstone of the Natural Law (Cambridge University Press) by Hadley Arkes. The Journal of Church and State. Oxford University Press. Retrieved from https://academic.oup.com/jcs/article-abstract/53/3/478/1022698?redirectedFrom=fulltext

DeHart, P. R. (2008, July). A review of John Blakeman’s The Bible In the Park: Federal District Courts, Religious Speech, and the Public Forum. The Journal of Church and State. Retrieved from https://academic.oup.com/jcs/article-abstract/50/3/601/905879?redirectedFrom=fulltext

DeHart, P. R. (2008, July). The Travails of Liberal Constitutionalism: A review of Howard Schweber’s The Language of Liberal Constitutionalism (Cambridge University Press). The Review of Politics. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/review-of-politics/article/abs/travails-of-liberal-constitutionalism-howard-schweber-the-language-of-liberal-constitutionalism-cambridge-uk-cambridge-university-press-2007-pp-v-386-9600/A815A3CD41C80DA1EC278F2F6061DE57

DeHart, P. R. (2007). Uncovering the Constitution’s Moral Design. Columbia, MO, United States: The University of Missouri Press. Retrieved from https://upress.missouri.edu/9780826221308/uncovering-the-constitutions-moral-design/

DeHart, P. R. (2006). The Dangerous Life: Natural Justice and the Rightful Subversion of the State. Polity, 38, 369–394. Retrieved from https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1057/palgrave.polity.2300046

DeHart, P. R. (2005, January). Trees, Andrew.  The Founding Fathers & The Politics of Character. The Maryland Historian.