Peter Lawler

Prior to his passing in July 2017, Peter Lawler was the Dana Professor of Government and former chair of the Department of Government and International Studies at Berry College. He served as executive editor of the journal Perspectives on Political Science, and was chair of the politics and literature section of the American Political Science Association. He also served on the editorial board of the new bilingual critical edition of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, and serves on the editorial boards of several journals. He wrote and edited fifteen books and over 200 articles and chapters in a wide variety of venues. He was the 2007 winner of the Weaver Prize in Scholarly Letters. Lawler served on President Bush's Council on Bioethics from 2004-09.
 

Being a Tocquevillian philanthropist today

Here’s our most characteristically philanthropic antidote to the excesses of individualism in the American political tradition: the thought and deeds of the Puritans as Tocqueville understood them…