EDUCATION
B.A., Harvard University, 1966
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1971
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Assistant Professor of English, Harvard University, 1971-1977
Associate Professor of English, University of Virginia, 1977-1985
Professor of English, University of Virginia, 1985-2003
NEH Visiting Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Davidson College, 1987-88
Clifton Waller Barrett Professor of English, University of Virginia, 2003-2022
Visiting Professor of Government, Harvard University, 2007, 2012, 2015
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Shakespeare's Rome: Republic and Empire. Cornell University Press, 1976. Reprinted with a new preface, University of Chicago Press (paperback), 2017. Chapter 4, “The Politics of
Empire,” reprinted in Shakespearean Criticism, Vol. 91, ed. Michelle Lee, Thomson Gale, 2005. Section on Julius Caesar reprinted in Julius Caesar, ed. S. P. Cerasano, Norton Critical Edition, 2012.
Creature and Creator: Myth-making and English Romanticism. Cambridge University Press, 1984. Paperback edition, 1985. Chapter 4, “The Nightmare of Romantic Idealism,” reprinted in Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Millipede Press, 2007 and in Penguin English Library edition of Frankenstein, 2012.
Shakespeare: Hamlet. Cambridge University Press--Landmarks of World Literature, 1989 (cloth and paper). Second edition (revised), 2004 (cloth and paper).
Macbeth und die Evangelisierung von Schottland. Siemens Foundation, 1993. Translated into Korean and published by Editus Publishing Company, 2018.
Gilligan Unbound: Pop Culture in the Age of Globalization. Rowman & Littlefield, 2001. Paperback edition, 2003.
Literature and the Economics of Liberty: Spontaneous Order in Culture. Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2009. Co-edited with Stephen Cox; authored Preface and Chapters 1, 3, 4, 6, and 9
The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture: Liberty vs. Authority in American Film and TV. University Press of Kentucky, 2012. Deluxe, leather-bound, signed edition, Classics of Liberty Library, Gryphon Editions, 2020.
Shakespeare’s Roman Trilogy: The Twilight of the Ancient World. University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Pop Culture and the Dark Side of the American Dream: Con Men, Gangsters, Drug Lords, and Zombies. University Press of Kentucky, 2019.
ESSAYS
"'A Distorting Mirror': Shelley's The Cenci and Shakespearean Tragedy," Harvard English Studies, 1976
"Shakespeare's The Tempest: The Wise Man as Hero," Shakespeare Quarterly, Spring 1980. Rewritten and expanded in “Shakespeare’s The Tempest: Tragicomedy and the Philosophic Hero”
"Byron's Cain: A Romantic Version of the Fall," Kenyon Review, Summer 1980. Rewritten and expanded in Creature and Creator
"Prospero's Republic: The Politics of Shakespeare's The Tempest," in Shakespeare as Political Thinker, ed. by John Alvis and Thomas West, Carolina Academic Press, 1981. Reprinted in 2nd edition by ISI Press, 2000.
"Friedrich Nietzsche: The Use and Abuse of Metaphor," in Metaphor: Problems and Perspectives, ed. by David Miall, Harvester Press, 1982
"The Ground of Nature: Shakespeare, Language, and Politics," The College: St. John's Review, Summer 1983
"Hamlet: The Cosmopolitan Prince," Interpretation, January 1984
"The Metaphysics of Botany: Rousseau and the New Criticism of Plants," Southwest Review, Summer 1985
"Rhetoric in Plato's Phaedrus," in The History and Philosophy of Rhetoric and Political Discourse, Vol. II, ed. by Kenneth W. Thompson, University Press of America, 1987
"John Ford," in Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists, ed. by Fredson Bowers, Gale Research Company, 1987. Reprinted in Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography
"Cyril Tourneur," in Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists
"Religion and the Limits of Community in The Merchant of Venice," Soundings, Spring-Summer 1987. Reprinted in The Merchant of Venice, ed. by Harold Bloom, Infobase, 2007
"Stoning the Romance: The Ideological Critique of Nineteenth-Century Literature," South Atlantic Quarterly, Summer 1989
"The Graduate Curriculum and the Job Market: Toward a Unified Field Theory," in The Future of Doctoral Studies in English, ed. by Andrea Lunsford, et al., MLA, 1989
"Othello: The Erring Barbarian among the Supersubtle Venetians," Southwest Review, Summer 1990
"Teaching Frankenstein From the Creature's Perspective," (co-authored with Michael Valdez Moses) in Approaches to Teaching "Frankenstein", ed. by Stephen Behrendt, MLA, 1990
"Leo Strauss and Contemporary Hermeneutics," in Leo Strauss's Thought, ed. by Alan Udoff, Lynne Rienner, 1991
"Aristotle and the History of Tragedy," Harvard English Studies, 1991
"'Adolf, We Hardly Knew You': DeLillo's Postmodern Hitler," in New Essays on 'White Noise', ed. by Frank Lentricchia, Cambridge University Press, 1991. Reprinted in Don DeLillo’s White Noise (Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations, Chelsea House, 2002)
"'What's Hecuba to Him or He to Hecuba?: Shakespeare and the Question of Relevance," in Proceedings of the 1991 Mellon Fellows' Conference on Scholarship and Society, ed. by J. Scott Mathews, 1992
"Blake and the Archaeology of Eden," in A Walk in the Garden: Biblical, Iconographical and Literary Images of Eden, ed. by Paul Morris and Deborah Sawyer, Sheffield Academic Press, 1992. Originally written for Creature and Creator
"Shakespeare--'For All Time'?", The Public Interest, Winter 1993
"Mary Shelley and the Taming of the Byronic Hero:'Transformation' and The Deformed Transformed," in The Other Mary Shelley: Beyond Frankenstein, ed. by Audrey Fisch, Anne Mellor, and Esther Schor, Oxford University Press, 1993
"Stephen Greenblatt's New Historicist Vision," Academic Questions, 1993
"Is a New Historicist Free?", Academic Questions, 1994--exchange of letters with Stephen Greenblatt
"Romanticism and Technology: Satanic Verses and Satanic Mills," in Technology in the Western Political Tradition, ed. by Arthur Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, and Richard Zinman, Cornell University Press, 1993
"Hyperinflation and Hyperreality: Thomas Mann In Light of Austrian Economics," Review of Austrian Economics, 1994. Reprinted in expanded and substantially revised form in Literature and the Economics of Liberty
"Happy Days in the Veld: Beckett and Coetzee's In the Heart of the Country," South Atlantic Quarterly, 1994
"Literature and Politics: Understanding the Regime," PS: Political Science & Politics, June 1995. Reprinted in abridged form in the ALSC Newsletter, Summer 1995
"Timon of Athens: The Corrupt City and the Origins of Philosophy," In-between: Essays & Studies in Literary Criticism, March 1995
"The Uncanonical Dante: The Divine Comedy and Islamic Philosophy," Philosophy and Literature, April 1996
"On Sitting Down to Read King Lears Once Again: The Textual Deconstruction of Shakespeare," in The Flight From Science and Reason, ed. by Paul Gross, Norman Levitt, and Martin Lewis, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997 (originally appeared in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1996)
"Nature and Convention in King Lear," in Poets, Princes, & Private Citizens: Literary Alternatives to Postmodern Politics, ed. by Joseph Knippenberg and Peter Lawler, Rowman & Littlefield, 1996. Reprinted in King Lear, ed. by Joseph Pearce, Ignatius Press, 2008.
"King Lear: The Tragic Disjunction of Wisdom and Power," in Shakespeare's Political Pageant: Essays in Politics and Literature, ed. by Joseph Alulis and Vickie Sullivan, Rowman & Littlefield, 1996
SPURIOUS LISTING
"Cymbeline: Beyond Rome," in Shakespeare: The Roman Plays, ed. by Graham Holderness, Bryan Loughrey, and Andrew Murphy, Longman, 1996. [This essay, falsely attributed to my Shakespeare's Rome, is actually taken from a book of the same name by Robert Miola]
"Oscar Wilde: The Man of Soul Under Socialism," in Beauty and the Critic: Aesthetics in an Age of Cultural Studies, ed. by James Soderholm, University of Alabama Press, 1997
"'A Soldier and Afeard': Macbeth and the Gospelling of Scotland," Interpretation, Spring 1997. Reprinted in revised form as “Macbeth and the Gospelling of Scotland” in Shakespeare as Political Thinker, ed. by John Alvis and Thomas West, ISI Press, 2000. English version of Macbeth und die Evangelisierung von Schottland
"The Apocalypse of Empire: Mary Shelley's The Last Man," in Iconoclastic Departures: Mary Shelley after "Frankenstein", ed. by Syndy Conger, Frederick S. Frank, and Gregory O'Dea, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1997
"Tales of the Alhambra: Rushdie's Use of Spanish History in The Moor's Last Sigh," Studies in the Novel, Fall 1997
"Shakespeare's Parallel Lives: Plutarch and the Roman Plays," Poetica 48 (1997). Reprinted in Shakespearean Criticism, Vol. 165, Gale Cengage, 2016. Reprinted in revised and expanded from in Shakespeare’s Roman Trilogy
"The Poet as Economist: Shelley's Critique of Paper Money and the British National Debt," Journal of Libertarian Studies, Summer 1997. Reprinted in expanded and substantially revised from in Literature and the Economics of Liberty
"Waiting for Godot and the End of History: Postmodernism as a Democratic Aesthetic," in Democracy and the Arts, ed. by Arthur Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, and Richard Zinman, Cornell University Press, 1999
"The Primacy of the Literary Imagination, or Which Came First: The Critic or the Author?" Literary Imagination, Spring 1999. A featured digest appears under the title "The Return of the Author" in The Wilson Quarterly, Summer 1999
"A Class Act: Persuasion and the Lingering Death of the Aristocracy," Philosophy and Literature, April 1999
"The Invisible Man and the Invisible Hand: H. G. Wells's Critique of Capitalism," The American Scholar, Summer 1999. Reprinted in Harold Bloom, ed., H. G. Wells (Modern Critical Views, Chelsea House, 2005). Reprinted in expanded and substantially revised from in Literature and the Economics of Liberty. Reprinted as Mises Daily Article, September 17, 2010 at www.mises.org.
Exchange of letters with Laura Sinclair Odelius concerning Invisible Man essay, The American Scholar, Autumn 1999
"The Simpsons: Atomistic Politics and the Nuclear Family," Political Theory, December 1999. Reprinted in edited form under the title “At home with The Simpsons” in Prospect, June 2000. Reprinted in full in The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D’Oh! Of Homer, ed. by William Irwin, Mark T. Conard, and Aeon J. Skobie, Open Court, 2001. Reprinted in edited form in Common Culture: Reading and Writing About American Popular Culture, ed. by Michael Petracca and Madeline Sorapure, Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2004. Reprinted in expanded version in Gilligan Unbound. Partial translation into Russian in Iskusstvo Kino #12 (2002) under the title “Simpson’s Family: Notes on TV serial The Simpsons (USA).” Excerpt reprinted in The Craft of Argument with Readings, ed. by Joseph M. Williams, Gregory C. Colomb, Jonathan D’Errico, and Karen Tracey, Longman, 2003.
"Postmodern Prophet: Tocqueville Visits Vegas," Journal of Democracy, January 2000
“Shakespeare in the Original Klingon: Star Trek and the End of History,” Perspectives on Political Science, Summer 2000. Reprinted in Faith, Reason, and Political Life Today, ed. by Peter Augustine Lawler and Dale McConkey, Lexington Books, 2001. Reprinted in expanded version in Gilligan Unbound
“‘Christian Kings’ and ‘English Mercuries’: Henry V and the Classical Tradition of Manliness,” in Educating the Prince: Essays in Honor of Harvey Mansfield, ed. by Mark Blitz and William Kristol, Rowman & Littlefield, 2000
Contributor to roundtable on the influence of Vergil in Poets and Critics Read Vergil, ed. by Sarah Spence, Yale University Press, 2001
“Churchill and the Irish Question in The World Crisis,” Churchill Proceedings 1996-1997 (published 2000 by the Churchill Center)
“This Is Not Your Father’s FBI: The X-Files and the Delegitimation of the Nation-State,” The Independent Review, Summer 2001 (excerpt from the X-Files chapter of Gilligan Unbound)
“The Art in the Popular,” Wilson Quarterly, Summer 2001. Reprinted in Current, July/August 2001
“In Defense of the Marketplace: Spontaneous Order in Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair,” The Ben Jonson Journal, Volume 8, 2001. Reprinted in expanded and substantially revised form in Literature and the Economics of Liberty
“Shakespeare’ The Tempest: Tragicomedy and the Philosophic Hero,” in Shakespeare’s Last Plays: Essays in Literature and Politics, ed. by Stephen W. Smith and Travis Curtright, Lexington Books, 2002 (rewriting and expansion of “Shakespeare’s The Tempest: The Wise Man as Hero” in Shakespeare Quarterly, 1980)
“Being Claude Dukenfield: W. C. Fields and the American Dream,” Perspectives on Political Science, Volume 31, No. 2, Spring 2002. Reprinted in revised and expanded from in Pop Culture and the Dark Side of the American Dream.
“The Importance of Being Odd: Nerdrum’s Challenge to Modernism,” Art Cyclopedia, Feature Article, February 20, 2004, www.artcyclopedia.com/feature-2004-02.html. Substantially expanded under same title in After the Avant-Gardes
“The Scientist and the Poet,” The New Atlantis: A Journal of Technology & Society, Winter 2004
“The Contract from Hell: Corruption in Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus,” in Private and Public Corruption, ed. by William C. Heffernan and John Kleinig, Rowman & Littlefield, 2004
“Yankee Go Home: Twain’s Postcolonial Romance,” in Democracy’s Literature: Politics and Fiction in America, ed. by Patrick J. Deneen and Joseph Romance, Rowman & Littlefield, 2005
“‘As Time Goes By’: Casablanca and the Evolution of a Pop-Culture Classic,” in Political Philosophy Comes to Rick’s: Casablanca and American Civic Culture, ed. by James F. Pontuso, Lexington Books, 2005
“Film Noir and the Frankfurt School: America as Wasteland in Edgar Ulmer’s Detour,” in The Philosophy of Film Noir, ed. by Mark T. Conard, University Press of Kentucky, 2006. Reprinted in revised and expanded form in The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture
“The Empire of the Future: Imperialism and Modernism in H. G. Wells,” (co-authored with Peter Hufnagel) Studies in the Novel, Spring 2006. Reprinted in the Norton Critical Edition of The Time Machine, ed. Stephen Arata, 2009
“The Shores of Hybridity: Shakespeare and the Mediterranean,” Literature Compass,3/4, 2006, Blackwell, Online. Reprinted in revised and expanded from in Shakespeare’s Roman Trilogy under the title “Shakespeare and the Mediterranean: The Centrality of the Classical Tradition in the Renaissance”
“Shakespeare’s Henry V: From the Medieval to the Modern World,” in Perspectives on Politics in Shakespeare, ed. by John A. Murley and Sean D. Sutton, Lexington Books, 2006
“Popular Culture and Spontaneous Order, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Tube,” in Philosophy and the Interpretation of Pop Culture, ed. by William Irwin and Jorge J. E. Gracia, Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. Posted with new preface on LewRockwell.com on December 22, 2006. Reprinted in revised form in The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture
“The Invisible Gnomes and the Invisible Hand: South Park and Libertarian Philosophy,” in South Park and Philosophy: You Know, I Learned Something Today, ed. by Robert Arp, Blackwell, 2007. Reprinted under the title “Cartman Shrugged: South Park and Libertarian Philosophy,” in The Ultimate South Park and Philosophy: Respect My Philosophah!, ed. by Robert Arp and Kevin S. Decker, Blackwell, 2013. Posted on LewRockwell.com on December 4, 2006 and on Arts & Letters Daily on December 7, 2006. Reprinted in revised and expanded from in The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture. Posted in abridged form on Mises Daily Article, January 25, 2013, on LewRockwell.com, January 28, 2013, and on Bloomberg Red Dot Roundup, February 1, 2013.
“Playwright of the Globe: Shakespeare as World Poet,” Claremont Review of Books, Winter 2006/07. Posted on LewRockwell.com on Feb. 9, 2007 and on Arts & Letters Daily on March 2, 2007
“The Law Versus the Marketplace in Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair,” in Solon and Thepis: Law and Theater in the English Renaissance, ed. by Dennis Kezar, University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. Reprinted in revised and expanded form in Literature and the Economics of Liberty
“Flying Solo: The Aviator and Libertarian Philosophy,” in The Philosophy of Martin Scorsese, ed. by Mark T. Conard, University Press of Kentucky, 2007. Posted on LewRockwell.com on May 24, 2007. Reprinted in revised from in The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture
“Cartman Shrugged: South Park and Libertarianism,” Liberty, September 2007 (revised and expanded version of “The Invisible Gnomes and the Invisible Hand”). Reprinted in revised and expanded form in The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture
“The Politics of the Epic: Wordsworth, Byron, and the Romantic Redefinition of Heroism,” The Review of Politics, Vol. 69, 2007
“Jack in Double Time: 24 in Light of Aesthetic Theory,” in 24 and Philosophy: The World According to Jack, ed. by Jennifer Hart Weed, Richard Davis, and Ronald Weed, Blackwell, 2008
“The Cause of Thunder: Nature and Justice in King Lear,” in King Lear: New Critical Essays, ed. by Jeffrey Kahan, Routledge, 2008
“From Shakespeare to Wittgenstein: “Darmok” and Cultural Literacy,” in Star Trek and Philosophy: The Wrath of Kant, ed. Jason T. Eberl and Kevin S. Decker, Open Court, 2008
“Is There Intelligent Life on Television?”, Claremont Review of Books, Fall 2008. Posted on Arts & Letters Daily, February 12, 2009. Reprinted in Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Ten Years of the Claremont Review, ed. Charles R. Kesler and John B. Kienker, Rowman & Littlefield, 2012
“Un-American Gothic: The Fear of Globalization in American Popular Culture,” in The Impact of Globalization on the United States, Volume 1, Culture and Society, ed. Michelle Bertho, Praeger, 2008. Reprinted in revised and expanded from in The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture
“The Western and Western Drama: John Ford’s The Searchers and the Oresteia,” in Print the Legend: Politics, Culture, and Civic Virtue in the Films of John Ford, ed. Sidney A. Pearson, Jr., Lexington, 2009. Reprinted in revised and expanded from in The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture
“O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock and the Problematic Freedom of the Irish Free State,” in Renegotiating and Resisting Nationalism in 20th-Century Irish Drama, ed. Scott Boltwood, Colin Smythe 2009
“When Is Diversity Not Diversity: A Brief History of the English Department,” in The Politically Correct University: Problems, Scope, and Reforms, ed. Robert Maranto, Richard E. Redding, and Frederick M. Hess, American Enterprise Institute, 2009
“The Truth Is Still Out There: The X-Files and 9/11,” in Homer Simpson Marches on Washington: Dissent Through American Popular Culture, ed. Timothy M. Dale and Joseph Foy, University Press of Kentucky, 2010. Reprinted in revised and expanded from in The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture
“The Deadwood Dilemma: Freedom Versus Law,” in Damned If You Do: Dilemmas of Action in Literature and Popular Culture, ed. by Margaret S. Hrezo and John M. Parrish, Lexington Books, 2010. Reprinted in revised and expanded form in The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture
“The Fall of the House of Ulmer: Europe vs. America in the Gothic Vision of The Black Cat,” in The Philosophy of Horror, ed. by Thomas Fahy, University Press of Kentucky, 2010. Reprinted in revised form in The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture
“‘Order Out of the Mud’: Deadwood and the State of Nature,” in The Philosophy of the Western, ed. by Jennifer L. McMahon and B. Steve Csaki, University Press of Kentucky, 2010. Reprinted in revised and expanded from in The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture
“Get with the Program: The Medium Is Not the Message,” Academic Questions, Winter, 2010
“The Road to Cultural Serfdom: America’s First Television Czar,” in Back on the Road to Serfdom: The Resurgence of Statism, ed. by Thomas E. Woods, Jr., ISI Books, 2010. Reprinted as the Mises Daily Article, March 11, 2011, www.mises.com
“A Handshake Across the Centuries” [essay on Chinua Achebe],Claremont Review of Books, Winter 2010-Spring 2011
“Long Day’s Journey Into Brecht: The Ambivalent Politics of The Lives of Others,” Perspectives on Political Science, Vol. 40, 2011. Reprinted in revised and expanded from in Totalitarianism on the Screen
“Hayek, Friedrich August von” in The Encyclopedia of Political Science, ed. by George Thomas Kurian, et. al. CQ Press, 2011.
“How One Philosophizes with a Scalpel: Darwin, Nietzsche, and Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau,” in The Companionship of Books: Essays in Honor of Laurence Berns, ed. by Alan Udoff, Sharon Portnoff, and Martin D. Yaffe, Lexington Books, 2012.
“The Spectrum of Love: Nature and Convention in As You Like It, in Souls With Longing: Representations of Honor and Love in Shakespeare, ed. by Bernard J. Dobski and Dustin A. Gish, Lexington Books, 2011
“The Fickle Muse: The Unpredictability of Culture,” in American Culture in Peril, ed. Charles W. Dunn, University Press of Kentucky, 2012
“The Olympics of the Mind: Philosophy and Athletics in the Ancient Greek World,” co-authored with Peter Hufnagel, in The Olympics and Philosophy, ed. Heather L. Reid and Michael W. Austin, University Press of Kentucky, 2012
“Foreword” to Ryan W. McMaken, Commie Cowboys: The Bourgeoisie and the Nation-State in the Western Genre, Amazon Digital Services, 2012
“The Literary Profession and Civic Culture,” AEI Program on American Citizenship, Policy Brief 10, May 2013. Reprinted in The Professions and Civic Life, ed. Gary J. Schmitt, Lexington Books, 2016
“Aristocracy in America” [on Huckleberry Finn], Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2013. Reprinted in revised and expanded form in Pop Culture and the Dark Side of the American Dream
“The Apocalyptic Strain in Popular Culture: The American Nightmare Becomes the American Dream,” The Hedgehog Review, Vol. 15, No. 2, Summer 2013. Reprinted in revised and expanded from in Pop Culture and the Dark Side of the American Dream
“Zombie Apocalypse in a ‘DC’ Comic,” Mises Daily Article, September 20, 2013. Reposted on LewRockwell.com, September 21, 2013. Reprinted in revised and expanded from in Pop Culture and the Dark Side of the American Dream
“The Walking Dead and a Refuge from the Modern State,” Mises Daily Article, September 26, 2013. Reposted on LewRockwell.com, September 27, 2013. Reprinted in revised and expanded form in Pop Culture and the Dark Side of the American Dream
“The Economics of Apocalypse: A Tale of Two C.D.C.’s,” Mises Daily Article, October 9, 2013. Reposted on LewRockwell.com, October 10, 2013. Reprinted in revised and expanded form in Pop Culture and the Dark Side of the American Dream
“Antony and Cleopatra: Empire, Globalization, and the Clash of Civilizations,” in Shakespeare and Politics, ed. Bruce E. Altschuler and Michael A. Genovese, Paradigm Publishers, 2014. Reprinted in revised and expanded from in Shakespeare’s Roman Trilogy
“Mars Attacks!: Burton, Tocqueville, and the Self-Organizing Power of the American People,” in The Philosophy of Tim Burton, ed. Jennifer L. McMahon, University Press of Kentucky, 2014. Appears in expanded from in The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture
“Long Day’s Journey into Brecht: The Ambivalent Politics of The Lives of Others,” in Totalitarianism on Screen: The Art and Politics of The Lives of Others, ed. Carl Eric Scott and F. Flagg Taylor IV, University Press of Kentucky, 2014. Expanded version of essay published earlier in Perspectives on Political Science
“Bloom, Allan (1930-1992),” The Encyclopedia of Political Thought, ed. Michael T. Gibbons, John Wiley & Sons, 2015
“’Choice of Loss’: The Revaluation of Roman Values in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra,” in In Search of Humanity: Essays in Honor of Clifford Orwin, ed. Andrea Radasanu, Lexington Books, 2015. Reprinted in revised and expanded from in Shakespeare’s Roman Trilogy
“Soft Tyranny in Albuquerque” [on Better Call Saul!], The Austrian: A Publication of the Mises Institute, May-June 2015, 1:3. Posted as Mises Daily Article, June 23, 2015, on LewRockwell.com, June 24, 2015, and on Philosophy.com, The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series, June 23, 2015
“Beavis and Butt-Head Take Over Silicon Valley” [on the HBO series Silicon Valley], The Austrian: A Publication of the Mises Institute, September-October 2015, 1:5. Posted as Mises Daily Article, October 22, 2015, on Philosophy.com, The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series, October 22, 2015, and on LewRockwell.com, October 30, 2015
“The Importance of Being Odd: Nerdrum’s Challenge to Modernism,” in After the Avant-Gardes: Reflections of the Future of the Arts, ed. Elizabeth Millan, Open Court, 2016
“Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South: Industrial Energy Versus ‘The Idiocies of Rural Life,’” in Capitalism and Commerce in Imaginative Literature, ed. Edward W. Younkins, Lexington Books, 2016
“Against Chivalry: The achievement of Cervantes and Shakespeare,” Weekly Standard, May 2, 2016, Vol. 21, No. 32.
“Reality Czech: Tom Stoppard Discovers Shakespeare behind the Iron Curtain,” Review of Politics, 78: 663-679 (Fall 2016)
“The Economics of Philosophical Anthropology: Hegel versus Rousseau,” in The Rousseauian Mind, ed. Eve Grace and Christopher Kelly, Routledge, 2019
“The Homeric Question: Is the Odyssey a Great Book?”, in From Here to There: The Odyssey of the Liberal Arts, ed. Roger Barrus, John Eastby, and J. Scott Lee, Association for Core Texts and Courses, 2007
“Milch’s Last Stand: The Deadwood Movie,” Modern Age, 61: No. 4, Fall 2019
“Inviting Evil In: Horror Stories and the Monstrous Double,” The Hedgehog Review, Spring 2020
BOOK REVIEWS
Review of English Romantic Irony by Anne K. Mellor, Criticism, Spring 1981
Review of The Comedy of Evil on Shakespeare's Stage by Charlotte Spivack, Shakespeare Quarterly, Summer 1983
Review of Literary Criticism and Philosophy, ed. by Joseph Strelka, and American Critics at Work, ed. by Victor Kramer, South Atlantic Review, January 1986
Review of In Frankenstein's Shadow: Myth, Monstrosity, and
Nineteenth-century Writing by Chris Baldick, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 1989
Review of A Mental Theater: Poetic Drama and Consciousness in the Romantic Age by Alan Richardson, The Wordsworth Circle, Autumn 1989
Review of Multiple Authorship and the Myth of Solitary Genius by Jack Stillinger, Studies in the Novel, Winter 1992
Review of Recovering American Literature by Peter Shaw, Public Interest, Fall 1994
"The State of Letters: Appropriating Shakespeare," Review of Jean Marsden, ed., The Appropriation of Shakespeare, In-between: Essays & Studies in Literary Criticism, September 1994
"Salman Rushdie: The Postcolonial Dickens," Review of The Moor's Last Sigh, The Weekly Standard, January 29, 1996
"Equal Time for Anger," Review of The War Lover: A Study of Plato's Republic by Leon Harold Craig, Books in Canada, February 1996
Review of Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History by Mary Lefkowitz, Heterodoxy, February 1996
Review of The Shelley-Byron Conversation by William Brewer and Byron's Dialectic: Skepticism and the Critique of Culture by Terence Allan Hoagwood, The Wordsworth Circle, Autumn 1995
"William Blake, Capitalist," Review of Blake: A Biography by Peter Ackroyd, The Weekly Standard, April 22, 1996
"Instead of a Masterpiece," Review of William Shakespeare: King Lear by Terence Hawkes, In-between, September 1996
"Back to School," Review of Great Books by David Denby, The Weekly Standard, October 28, 1996
"A Scholar's Bold Enterprise,” Review of The Schools We Need by E. D. Hirsch, Jr., Heterodoxy, December 1996 (excerpted in The Washington Times, January 10, 1997)
"Oxford Blues: Sobran's Shakespeare Silliness," Review of Alias Shakespeare by Joseph Sobran, The Weekly Standard, April 28, 1997
"O For a Bit of Certainty!", The Weekly Standard, May 19, 1997--exchange of letters with Joseph Sobran and Charlton Heston
"Rough Justice," Review of Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment by Jane Gallop, American Enterprise, July/August 1997
"Film Noir Politics: The Ideology of a Movie Genre," Review of Somewhere in the Night: Film Noir and the American City by Nicholas Christopher, The Weekly Standard, June 30, 1997
Review of The Reception of Myth in English Romanticism by Anthony John Harding, Modern Philology, February 1998
"The Clausewitz of the Culture Wars," Review of Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities by John Ellis, American Enterprise, March/April 1998
Review of American Academia and the Survival of Marxist Ideas by Darío Fernández-Morera, The European Legacy, February 1998
"Money Is the Root of All Art,"Review of In Praise of Commercial Culture by Tyler Cowen, American Enterprise, September/October 1998
"Still Immortal," Review of The Genius of Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate, Wall Street Journal, Sept. 29, 1998
"William Blake: Printer's Devil," Review Essay on William Blake: The Early Illuminated Books, ed. by Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi; William Blake: Milton a Poem, ed. by Robert N. Essick and Joseph Viscomi; and Blake and the Idea of the Book by Joseph Viscomi, Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. 59, No. 4
"Jurassic Marx," Review of The Last Dinosaur Book by W. J. T. Mitchell, The Weekly Standard, January 25, 1999
Review of Shakespeare and the Good Life by David Lowenthal, Review of Metaphysics, March 1999
"Books and a Movie: My Choices," Spintech, December 12, 1999, Vol. 3, No. 1 (www.spintechmag.com)
"Capitalism's Poet Laureate," Review of Shakespeare's Twenty-First Century Economics by Frederick Turner, Reason, March 2000
"W. C. Fields: The Art of American Comedy," Review of Man on the Flying Trapeze: The Life and Times of W. C. Fields by Simon Louvish, The Weekly Standard, February 21, 2000
“The Owl of Minerva and the NBC Peacock,” Review of Shows About Nothing: Nihilism and Popular Culture from ‘The Exorcist’ to ‘Seinfeld’ by Thomas S. Hibbs, American Enterprise, September 2000
“Four Books and a Movie,” Spintech, December 12, 2000, Vol. 4., no. 1 (www.spintechmag.com)
“Two Men Who Would Be King,” Review of Double Trouble: Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley in a Land of No Alternatives by Greil Marcus, Reason, February 2001
Review of The Frankenstein Notebooks: A Facsimile Edition of Mary Shelly’s Manuscript Novel, ed. by Charles E. Robinson, Text 13 (2000).
“What the 20th Century Can Teach the 21st” [choice of five great works of 20th-century literature], Claremont Review, Winter 2001
Review of Theaters of Intention: Drama and the Law in Early Modern England by Luke Wilson, The Ben Jonson Journal, Volume 8, 2001
“Between Heaven and Hell,” Review of Hamlet in Purgatory by Stephen Greenblatt, Claremont Review, Fall 2001
“Well-crafted harking back!” Review of Introduction to English Renaissance Comedy by Alexander Leggatt, In-between, March 2001
Review of Postmodern Pooh by Frederick Crews, Academic Questions, Spring 2002
Review of Creative Destruction: How Globalization Is Changing the World’s Cultures, by Tyler Cowen, Humane Studies Review, Sept. 2003, http://www.theihs.org/libertyguide/article.php/503.html. Reposted on lewrockewell.com, Sept. 27-28, 2003
“The Economic Muse,” Review of The Literary Book of Economics, ed. by Michael Watts, Claremont Review of Books, Winter 2003
“Average Bill,” Review of Shakespeare, by Michael Wood, Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2004
“The Philosopher Poet,” Review of Leon Craig’s Of Philosophers and Kings, The University Bookman, Summer/Winter 2003
“History Plays,” Review of The Age of Shakespeare by Frank Kermode and Imagining Shakespeare by Stephen Orgel, Claremont Review of Books, Winter 2004
Review of Quarter Notes and Banknotes: The Economics of Music Composition in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries by F. M. Scherer, The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Fall 2004
“American Gothic, Then and Now,” Review of American Gothic: A Life of America’s Most Famous Painting by Steven Biel, The Weekly Standard, March 6/March 13, 2006
“Economic and Cultural Globalization,” Review of Cultures Merging: A Historical and Economic Critique of Culture by Eric L. Jones, The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy, Spring 2007
“Nuttall the Thinker,” Review of Shakespeare the Thinker by A. D. Nuttall, First Principles: ISI Web Journal, www.firstprinciplesjournal.com
“Ink-Stained Genius,” Review of Charles Dickens: A Life Defined by Writing by Michael Slater, Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2010
“Shakespeare at Liberty,” Review of Shakespeare’s Freedom by Stephen Greenblatt, American Conservative, April 2011
“Critique of Pure Horse Sense,” Review of Hollywood Westerns and American Myth by Robert Pippin, Books and Culture: A Christian Review, May/June 2012
“The Elizabethan CIA: The surveillance state in the 16th century,” Review of The Watchers: A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I by Stephen Alford, Reason Online, November 24, 2012, http://reason.com/archives/2012/11/24/the-elizabethan-cia
“Listen to Wagner: A bicentennial sense of his life and work” Review of Richard Wagner: A Life in Music by Martin Geck, The Weekly Standard, November 25, 2013
“The Worst Years of Our Lives,” Review of Five Came Back: Hollywood and the Second World War by Mark Harris, Wall Street Journal, March 1-2, 2014, C5
Review of Literature and Liberty: Essays in Libertarian Literary Criticism, by Allen Mendenhall, Journal of Prices and Markets, Vol. 2, Issue 2 (Summer 2014): 59-61
“A Riddle Wrapped in an Enigma,” Review of Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World by Leo Damrosch, Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2014
“Philosophy in a Clown Suit,” Review of Philosophy Between the Lines: The Lost History of Esoteric Writing, by Arthur Melzer, The Weekly Standard, December 22, 2014. Posted on Arts & Letters Daily, December 13, 2014
Review of How English Became the Global Language, by David Northrup, Naval War College Review, 68.1 (Winter 2015)
“Tragedy vs. Tyranny,” Review of How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage: Power and Succession in the History Plays by Peter Lake, Wall Street Journal, February 11-12, 2017
Review of The Historian’s Huck Finn: Mark Twain’s Masterpiece as Social and Economic History, annotated by Ranjit S. Dighe, The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 77, Issue 3 (September 2017)
“The Burden of History,” Review of Tyrant: Shakespeare and Politics by Stephen Greenblatt, Wall Street Journal, September 8, 2018
“The Case for Barbarism,” Review of Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States by James C. Scott, Claremont Review of Books, Fall 2018
Review of Shakespeare’s Thought: Unobserved Details and Unsuspected Depths in Thirteen Plays by David Lowenthal, The Ben Jonson Journal, 26.1 (2019)
“Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity,” Review of How the Classics Made Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate, Modern Age, Winter 2020
Review of Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic: Selfhood, Stoicism and Civil War by Patrick Gray, Skenè: Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies, 6:1 (2020)
THEATER REVIEWS
"Springtime for Furtwängler," Review of Taking Sides by Ronald Harwood, The Weekly Standard, November 25, 1996; full version printed in The Newsletter of the Wilhelm Furtwängler Society of America, Vol. 7, No. 1 & 2
MOVIE REVIEWS
"Jane Austen on Screen," Review of Persuasion and Sense and Sensibility, The Weekly Standard, December 25, 1995
“I Spy,” Review of The Lives of Others, Books and Culture: A Christian Review, January/February 2008. Reposted at Arts & Letters Daily, January 3, 2008, and LewRockwell.com, January 4, 2008
“West Germany’s 9/11," Review of The Baader Meinhof Complex, Books and Culture: A Christian Review, July/August 2010.
MUSEUM EXHIBITION REVIEWS
“O, Cleopatra! Globalization in antiquity,” Review of “Cleopatra of Egypt: From History to Myth,” Field Museum, Chicago, The Weekly Standard, November 12, 2001
“Northern Eye: The Canadian vision of Lawren Harris,” Review of “The Idea of North: The Paintings of Lawren Harris,” Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; also of book with same title accompanying the exhibition, The Weekly Standard, March 21, 2016
“Unearthly Delights: A Bosch addict returns from pilgrimage,” Review of Hieronymus Bosch Exhibition in Prado Museum, Madrid, The Weekly Standard, August 1, 2016
“Extraordinary Ordinary: How Vermeer and His Contemporaries Captured Everyday Life,” Review of “Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting” in National Gallery, Washington, D.C., The Weekly Standard, October 30, 2017
“Frankenstein at 200,” Review of “It’s Alive: Frankenstein at 200” in the Morgan Library, New York, The Weekly Standard, online, December 13, 2018
MUSIC REVIEWS
"Boston Chamber Shines With Unfamiliar Works," Review of Boston Chamber Music Society, Daily Progress, February 17, 1990
"Flutist Makes Most of Her Music," Review of Paula Robison, Daily Progress, March 17, 1990
"Cleveland Hits Perfect Chord for the Series Final," Review of Cleveland Quartet, Daily Progress, April 14, 1990
"Ash Lawn singers strut stuff," Review of Donizetti's The
Daughter of the Regiment, Ash Lawn Festival, Daily Progress, June 26, 1990
"The Magic Flute, fanciful, not perfect," Review of Ash Lawn
Festival, Daily Progress, July 10, 1990
JOURNALISM
“The Fixed Canon: The Maginot Line of the College Curriculum,”
The American Enterprise, September/October 1991
"Culturally Malled: An Army of Yuppies Travels on Its Stomach," Op/Ed Page, Richmond Times-Dispatch, 2/5/93
"Fresh Air in Academia" [Article on First ALSC Conference], The American Enterprise, January/February, 1996
"Art Lover Survives Government Shutdown," The American Enterprise, March/April 1996. Reprinted under the title “Art of the Private” in Karl Zinsmeister, ed., In Real Life: Powerful Lessons from Everyday Living, New Beginnings Press, 2005
"Mr. Shaw Goes to Washington" [Memorial Essay on Peter Shaw], Academic Questions, Vol. 9, No. 5
"The Greatest TV Show Ever" [Article on The Simpsons], The American Enterprise, September/October, 1997. Reprinted in The Australian Financial Review, Feb. 27, 1998
"It's Not the Tenure, It's the Radicalism," Academic Questions, Winter 1997-98, Vol. 11, No. 1
"Holy Praxeology, Batman," The Free Market, March 1998 (reprinted under the title “Super Human Action” in Spintech Magazine, June 12, 2000, http://www.spintechmag.com)
"Blame It On the Boss," The Free Market, August 1998
"Highjacking the Modern Language Association: I," Society, January/February 1999
"Let's Get Ready to Rumble: Pro Wrestling Demonstrates How TV Can Take Over Life," The American Enterprise, March/April 1999. Excerpts reprinted in The Washington Times, March 2, 1999
"A Welcome for Postcolonial Literature," Academic Questions, Winter 1998-99
"Requiem for the Dinosaurs," American Enterprise, September/October, 1999. Translated into Czech by the Liberalni Institut, Prague, under the title “Proc Vyhynuli Dinosauri?” at libinst.cz/stranka.php?id=62 (posted July 20, 2004. Reposted as the Mises Daily Article on August 26, 2011 under the title “How Dinosaurs Were Made Extinct”
"Pro Wrestling and the End of History," The Weekly Standard, October 4, 1999. Reprinted in The Weekly Standard: A Reader: 1995-2005, ed. William Kristol, Harper Collins, 2005
"Fields of Glory: The absurdist anti-politics of W. C. Fields," Reason, May 2000. Reprinted in revised and expanded from in Pop Culture and the Dark Side of the American Dream
“Irony Survives,” http://www.mises.org, posted December 4, 2001
“Ozz Fest: Why The Osbournes might save the nuclear family,” http://reason.com/hod/pc052402.shtml, posted May 24, 2002. Reprinted in slightly abridged form in The Hook, June 6, 2002
“Pyramid Dreams, Pyramid Schemes,” http://www.lewrockwell.com/
orig3/cantor1.html, posted October 2, 2002. Reposted as the Mises Daily Article on October 16, 2002 under the title “Keynes and the Pyramids,” http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control =1069. Reposted again as the Mises Daily Article on May 3, 2011.
“Cruisin’ the Black Sea: From the Golden Fleece to the Golden Arches,” http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/cantor2.html, posted December 16, 2003. Reposted as the Mises Daily Article on December 24, 2003 under the title “Commerce or Commissar?” http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=1401
“The Power of Pictures: Great films have helped build a common American culture,” The Press-Enterprise, February 26, 2006
“A Tale of Two Antonys,” Asides [Newletter of the Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington, DC], Season 2007/2008, Issue 5
“King Lear: Mirror for the Ages,” Asides, Season 2008/2009, Issue 4
“Felix the Great: Why the ambivalence about Mendelssohn?”, The Weekly Standard, August 10, 2009
“What ‘Gilligan’s Island’ creator Sherwood Schwartz was saying about democracy,” The Washingon Post, Outlook Section, July 17, 2011. Reprinted in Boston Globe, Miami Herald, Herald Tribune, and other newspapers. Posted on numerous blogs and web sites.
Contribution to Commentary Symposium, “Are You Optimistic or Pessimistic About America’s Future,” Commentary, November 2011
“Pop Culture and Spirit of Freedom,” The Daily Progress, December 30, 2012, B1
“Following The Following,” VQR blog, February 20, 2013, http://www.vquonline.org/blog/?s=Paul+Cantor
“Maestro Meteor: The irresistible rise of Andris Nelsons,” Weekly Standard, Vol. 21, No. 9, November 9, 2015
“Obituary: Harold Bloom, 1930-2019,” Washington Examiner, October 17, 2019
PRINT AND ELECTRONIC INTERVIEWS
“Austrian Economics and Culture,” The Austrian Economics Newsletter, Spring 2001 (with Jeffrey Tucker)
“Shakespearean TV” [about Gilligan Unbound], The Virginia Advocate, December 2001
“Gilligan vs. Homer Simpson” [about Gilligan Unbound], Reason, February 2002 (with Nick Gillespie)
“De wereld is een tv-serie,” [about Gilligan Unbound], Elsevier (Amsterdam), February 9, 2002 (with Gertjan van Schoonhoven; in Dutch)
“Cantor Unbound: UVA Prof and Gilligan Theorist Tells All,” The Hook, May 2, 2002. Fuller version available online under the title “Anybody Can Rule” at http://www.gadflyonline.com/05-06-02/book-gilligan.html
Interview on Gilligan Unbound, Cavalier Daily, November 12, 2002, P. B4
“Cartoon Anarchy: An Interview with Paul Cantor,” posted at http://www.lewrockwell.com/carson/carson12.html, February 6, 2003 (with Stephen W. Carson). Print version published under the title “Cartoons Crush Political Correctness” in Washington Witness (Washington University, St. Louis), Vol. V, No. 9, February 20, 2003 and “Today’s Pop Culture is Tomorrow’s High Culture” in Washington Witness, Vol. V, No. 12, April 12, 2003
“Comedies as great as tragedies? Shakespeare scholar Cantor examines the Bard’s two worlds,” Pasatiempo, The Santa Fe New Mexican, April 4, 2003 (with Robert Nott)
“Conversations with Scholars of American Popular Culture: Featured Guest,” Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture, Fall 2004 (Vol. 3, Issue 2) at http://www.american
popularculture.com/journal/articles/fall_2004. Reposted on lewrockwell.com, February 1, 2005.
“Astral Man: Politics, religion, and cosmic love in the final frontier” [Star Trek], Nationial Review Online, September 28, 2007 (with Kathryn Jean Lopez)
“Lit Scholar Takes on Cartman, Bart and Captain Kirk,” C-ville, July 9-14, 2008 (with Jayson Whitehead)
Faculty Spotlight Interview, Mises Economics Blog, April 16, 2010, http://blog.mises.org/12388/faculty-spotlight-interview-
paul-cantor/
“Paul Cantor’s New Book Finds the Literary Value in Popular Culture,” UVA Today, December 5, 2012 (with Anne E. Bromley)
“Paul Cantor on Artists and Alien Invasions,” The Free Market, April 2013, Vol. 31, No. 4. Reprinted as the Mises Daily Article, August 20, 2013, “Paul Cantor on the Technocratic Elite in Popular Culture”
“Paul Cantor on Shakespeare, the Romans, and Austrian Economics,” Interview with Allen Mendenhall, Mises Wire, March 3, 2018, https://mises.org/wire/paul-cantor-shakespeare-romans-and-austrian-economics
“Paul Cantor on Literature, Culture, and Economics,” Interview with Jeff Deist, The Austrian, Vol. 5, No. 4, July-August 2019. Reprinted on Mises.com on July 31, 2019
Interview on Pop Culture and the Dark Side of the American Dream with Ryan McMaken, Mises Wire, November 22, 2019
EDITORIAL WORK
Editorial Advisor (Coriolanus), The Complete Works of Shakespeare, ed. by David Bevington (Scott, Foresman, 1980; 1992; 1997--through 4th Ed.)
Board of Editors, Virginia Victorian Studies Series, 1986-88
Editorial Advisory Board, In-between: Essays & Studies in Literary Criticism (University of Delhi, India), 1994-2001
Editorial Advisory Board, Literary Imagination: The Review of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, 1999-2004
Editorial Advisory Board, Studies in the Novel (University of North Texas), 1997-2006
Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Libertarian Studies, 2007-
Editorial Board, American Political Thought: A Journal of Ideas, Institutions, and Culture, 2011-
Editorial Advisory Board, The Philosophy of Popular Culture Series, Lexington Books, 2013-
Editorial Advisory Board, Politics, Literature, and Film Series, Lexington Books, 2013-
Edited from manuscript for posthumous publication Barbara Tovey, “Chaucer’s Dialectic: How the Establishment Theology is Subjected to Scrutiny in Five Canterbury Tales,” Interpretation, Summer 2004
LECTURES, SEMINARS, AND OTHER PUBLIC APPEARANCES
"Shakespeare's The Tempest," Boston College, 1976
"Nietzsche: The Use and Abuse of Metaphor," University of Chicago and Notre Dame University, 1981
"Love and Tyranny in A Midsummer Night's Dream," Kenyon College, 1981
"Hamlet: The Cosmopolitan Prince," University of Chicago, 1983
"The Dramatic Note: Shakespeare to Verdi (Macbeth)," Virginia Opera Association, Charlottesville, 1983--commentator
"Freedom and Tyranny in Macbeth," Freedoms Foundation, Valley Forge, 1983, 1984
"Freedom and Tyranny in The Tempest," Freedoms Foundation, Valley Forge, 1983, 1984
"Jefferson and Liberal Education in America," White House Fellows, Charlottesville, 1983
"Henry V and the Classical Tradition," Harvard University, 1984
"Othello: The Erring Barbarian Among the Supersubtle Venetians," Nazareth College of Rochester, 1985
"Twelfth Night and Romance," Woodberry Forest School, 1986
"Rhetoric in Plato's Phaedrus," Miller Center, University of Virginia, 1986
"Religion in The Merchant of Venice," Baltimore Hebrew College, 1986
"Graduate Job Placement," Miami University of Ohio, 1986
"The Graduate Curriculum and the Job Market: Toward a Unified Field Theory," MLA Conference on the Future of Doctoral Studies, Wayzata, Minnesota, 1987
"The Closing of the American Ring: How André the Giant Has Failed Democracy," Hampden-Sydney College, 1988
"Prospero and Gilligan: A Tale of Two Islands," Hampden-Sydney College, 1989
"Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians," Spotsylvania School District, 1990
"Romanticism and Technology," Symposium on Science, Reason, and Modern Democracy, Michigan State University, 1990
"Byron and Romantic Heroism," Olin Center Conference on "Heroes and Heroism," University of Chicago, 1990
"Racial and Ethnic Issues in Shakespeare," Virginia Institute for Theatre Arts, 1990
"Teaching Julius Caesar," Virginia Institute for Theatre Arts, 1990
"Kipling's Kim: The Cosmopolitan Vision," Opening Address, Alderman Library Exhibition, "From Palm to Pine: Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936," 1990
"The Fixed Canon: The Maginot Line of Cultural Conservatism," Bradley Lecture Series, American Enterprise Institute, 1991
"Macbeth and the Gospelling of Scotland," Bradley Lectures, Boston College, 1991 and the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation Lecture Series, Munich, 1991
"Shakespeare Was a Klingon: Star Trek and the End of History," Hampden-Sydney College, 1992
"DeToqueville and DeLillo: Democracy in Postmodern America," Government Department, Harvard University, 1992
"Hyperinflation and Hyperreality: Thomas Mann in Light of Austrian Economics," Ludwig von Mises Institute's 10th Anniversary Austrian Scholars Conference, New York 1992 and the George Mason University Austrian Economics Colloquium, Fairfax, Virginia, 1992
"Nature and Convention in King Lear," University of Dallas, 1994
"Frankenstein: The Creature and the Creator," The 1994 Humanities Symposium at Loyola College of Baltimore
"The Canon: If It Ain't Fixed, Don't Break It," St. Thomas University, New Brunswick, 1994
"Shakespeare in the Original Klingon: Star Trek and the End of History," Middlebury College, 1994 and Claremont McKenna College, 1994
"Shakespeare's Hamlet"--presentation at Charlottesville High School, 1994
"Socrates in the Third World: Achebe and Xenophon," Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra, 1994
"Byron's Don Juan and the Epic Tradition," Middlebury College, 1995
"Byron's 'Darkness' and His Place in Romanticism," Middlebury College, 1995
"The Shattered Visage: Paradigms of Disunity in Contemporary Humanistic Studies," University of California, San Diego, 1995
"Waiting for Godot: The Postmodern, The Posthistorical, and the Aesthetics of Democracy," Symposium on Democracy and the Arts, Michigan State University, 1995
"Winston Churchill and H. G. Wells: Prophets of Modernity," Churchill Center, San Francisco, 1996; the Alaska Chapter of the International Churchill Society, Anchorage, 1997
"The Invisible Man and the Invisible Hand: H. G. Wells's Critique of Capitalism," Polaris Lecture Series, University of Alaska, Anchorage, 1997
"Manliness in Macbeth," Harvard University, 1997
"Classical vs. Christian Values in Hamlet," Boston College, 1997
"Salman Rushdie and Multiculturalism: Religion and Politics in The Moor's Last Sigh," Boston College, 1997
"The Simpsons: Nuclear Family," Hampden-Sydney College, 1997
"In Defense of the Book: Tales of the Misinformation Superhighway," Augustana College, 1998
"The Simpsons: Atomistic Politics and the Nuclear Family," Randolph-Macon College, 1998
"Literature and Liberty: The Poetics of Spontaneous Order," Duke University, 1999
"The Island of Forbidden Knowledge: H. G. Wells's Dr. Moreau," Hanover College, 1999
"Shakespeare's Roman Plays: Tragedy and the Limits of the City," Jacob Jasper Stahl Lecture Series, Bowdoin College, 1999
"Literature and Liberty" and "Literary Criticism: The State of the Discipline," Institute for Humane Studies Academic Seminar, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1999
"Tragedy, Comedy, and Philosophy: Sophocles, Aristophanes, Plato," Loyola University of Chicago, 1999
"Tocqueville and Vegas"--Berry College, 2000
"Star Trek VI and the End of History"--Berry College, 2000
"Professional Wrestling at the End of History"--Hampden-Sydney College, 2000
"The Crisis in Victorian Manliness: Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Wells's The Time Machine”--Harvard University, 2000
“Darwinism and Literary Criticism”--Institute for Humane Studies Academic Seminar, Charlottesville, Virginia, 2000
“Shakespeare’s Coriolanus,” Great Ideas Lecture Series--University of Virginia, 2000
“How Popular Culture Is Undermining the State”--Ludwig von Mises Institute Supporters’ Summit, Newport Beach, California, 2001
“Things Really Fall Apart: The X-Files and the Postcolonial Condition”--Bethany College, West Virginia, 2001
“The X-Files and the Death of the Nation State”--Hampden-Sydney College, Virginia, 2001
“This Is Not Your Father’s FBI: The X-Files and the Delegitimation of the Nation State”--Randolph-Macon College, Virginia, 2001
“The Merchant of Venice: The Spirit of Comedy Versus the Spirit of Religion”--St. Francis College, Brooklyn, New York, 2001
“The Politics of The Simpsons”--lecture in Politics 390, Washington & Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, 2001
“Shakespeare in the Original Klingon: Star Trek at the End of History”--Washington & Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, 2001
“The X-Files and the End of the Nation State”--lecture in Politics 390, Washington & Lee University, Lexington, Virginia 2001
“Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus: Literature and Capitalism, or Give the Devil His Due,” Institute for Humane Studies Academic Seminar, Charlottesville, Virginia, 2001
“The Simpsons and Globalization,” Focus Seminar Program, Duke University, October 4, 2001
“Ben Jonson and the Scottish Enlightenment--The Case of Bartholomew Fair,” University of Dallas, February 16, 2002
“The Simpsons and the Globalization of Springfield,” Smith College, March 11, 2002
“From Hurlbut to Hollywood: The Simpsons and Globalization,” Harvard University, March 13, 2002
The Ludwig von Mises Memorial Lecture, “The Poetics of Spontaneous Order: Austrian Economics and Literary Criticism,” Austrian Scholars Conference, Ludwig von Mises Institute, March 15, 2002
“Shakespeare and Hegel’s Theory of Tragedy,” Yale University, April 5, 2002
“The Simpsons and the Globalization of Springfield,” Allan Bloom Forum, Calhoun College, Yale University, April 5, 2002
“The Simpsons and Globalization,” Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon, April 26, 2002
“Shakespeare’s Roman Plays,” Hampden-Sydney College, September 27, 2002
“Freedom and Technology in The X-Files,” Focus Seminar Program, Duke University, October 3, 2002
“Comedy and Tragedy in The Merchant of Venice,” Hampden-Sydney College, October 11, 2002
“Popular Culture: The Final Frontier,” Ludwig von Mises Institute, October 19, 2002
“Nature and Convention in As You Like It,” Hampden-Sydney College, November 1, 2002
“Shakespeare’s Henry V: From the Medieval to the Modern World,” Hampden-Sydney College, November 15, 2002
“Tyranny in Macbeth,” Hampden-Sydney College, December 11, 2002
“Cartoon Anarchy: From The Simpsons to South Park,” Washington University, St. Louis, January 30, 2003
“Statesmanship in Shakespeare’s Henry V,” Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, February 6, 2003
“The Simpsons and America,” Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan, March 5, 2003
“Shakespeare’s Histories,” Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan, March 5, 2003
“Nature and Convention in As You Like It,” St. John’s College, Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 4, 2003
“Nature and Convention in As You Like It,” University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, April 10, 2003
“Liberal Education and the Study of Popular Culture,” James Madison College, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, October 13, 2003
“The Quarrel Between Philosophy and Poetry: Sophocles, Aristophanes, Plato,” James Madison College, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, October 14, 2003
Presentation on Being Human, President’s Council on Bioethics, Washington, DC, January 16, 2004
“Food for Thought: An Englishman Looks at America,” New Research on Churchill and America, Symposium of the Library of Congress, organized by the Churchill Centre, Washington, DC, June 1, 2004
“Philosophical Backgrounds of World Literature” (ENSP 625), Center for the Liberal Arts, UVA SCPS Hampton Roads, July 22-23, 2004
“High Culture and Pop Culture, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Tube,” Inaugural Great Ideas Annual Lecture, St. Thomas College, Fredericton, New Brunswick, October 1, 2004
“Science and the Humanities,” Center for Biomedical Ethics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, November 5, 2004
“Julius Caesar and Leadership,” Jepson School, University of Richmond, November 23, 2004
“Tim Burton’s Mars Attacks,” Miller Center for Public Affairs and Robertson Media Center, “Hollywood Goes to Washington” Series, University of Virginia, December 8, 2004
“The Simpsons and Globalization,” Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee, April 28, 2005
“Libertarianism in Contemporary Popular Culture,” Richard C. Sinopoli Memorial Lecture, University of California, Davis, May 6, 2005
“Libertarianism in Contemporary Pop Culture,” Cato Institute, Washington, DC, June 14, 2005
“From Hollywood to Bollywood: The Economic Globalization of Popular Culture,” Hampden-Sydney College, October 19, 2005
“The Return of Scully & Mulder: Pop Culture Post 9/11,” Students for Individual Liberty, University of Virginia, January 31, 2006
“Popular Culture and Globalization,” The Richard Joshua Reynolds Lectureship, Emory & Henry College, February 28, 2006
“Shakespeare and the Mediterranean,” Polaris Lecture, University of Alaska, Anchorage, March 9, 2006
“Hamlet and Tragedy,” Seminar, Forty-Ninth State Fellows, University of Alaska, Anchorage, March 10, 2006
“Popular Culture and Politics: The Return of Scully & Mulder,” Holy Cross College, Worcester, Massachusetts, April 21, 2006
“Unnatural Right in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure,” Harvard University, April 24, 2006
“Comedy in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Much Ado About Nothing,” Forty-Ninth State Fellows, University of Alaska, Anchorage, visiting in Washington, DC, May 19, 2006
“Tragedy in Shakespeare’s Macbeth,” Forty-Ninth State Fellows, University of Alaska, Anchorage, visiting in Charlottesville, May 27, 2006
“The Epic as Genre,” Albemarle Country English Language Arts Central Planning Day, Monticello High School, Charlottesville, August 15, 2006
“Free the South Park Four: Regulation and Deregulation in the Entertainment Industry,” Duke University Focus Program, Durham, North Carolina, September 14, 2006
“The Simpsons: A Study in Pop Culture,” The Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts, Natchitoches, Louisiana, November 3-4, 2006–lecture and discussion sessions
“Leo Strauss and His Legacy,” Temple Beth Israel, Charlottesville, December 10, 2006
“Thumos vs. Thanatos: Plato and Freud on Manliness,” Forum on Contemporary Thought, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, March 2, 2007–commentary on presentation by Harvey Mansfield
“The Epic as Genre–A Series of Six Lectures,” Center for Liberal Arts, Albemarle County School System, April 13-14, 20-21, 2007
“The Merchant of Venice: The Comic Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism,” University of Nevada, Las Vegas, April 26, 2007
“Comedy in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Forty-Ninth State Fellows, University of Alaska, Anchorage, visiting in Staunton, Virginia, May 12, 2007
“Tragedy in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar,” Forty-Ninth State Fellows, University of Alaska, Anchorage, visiting in Staunton, Virginia, May 12, 2007
“The Epic as Genre–A Series of Six Lectures,” Center for Liberal Arts, Virginia Beach, August 14-15, 2007
“Shakespeare’s Venice,” Boston College, November 12, 2007
“Shakespeare and Popular Culture,” University Programs Council Speakers Committee Professor Dinner Series, University of Virginia, February 19, 2008
“TV or Not TV: Shakespeare and Popular Culture,” The 2008 Donald J. Grimes, C. S. C. Divine Wisdom Lecture, King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, April 14, 2008
“The Merchant of Venice as Comedy,” Forty-Ninth State Fellows, University of Alaska, Anchorage, visiting in Staunton, Virginia, May 10, 2008
“Shakespeare’s Histories and Henry V,” Forty-Ninth State Fellows, University of Alaska, Anchorage, visiting in Staunton, Virginia, May 10, 2008
“Frederick Jackson Turner and the American Western,” Jack Miller Center Summer Institute, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, July 10, 2008 and University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, August 11, 2008
“Tragedy and Comedy in Shakespeare,” The Miller School, Albemarle County, February 6, 2009
“Learning to Lead Through The Simpsons,” McConnell Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, February 12, 2009–public lecture
“Shakespeare’s Henry V,” McConnell Center, University of Louisville, February 12, 2009–seminar leader
“Gene Roddenberry: From Westerns to Star Trek,” Hillsdale College, Hillsdale Michigan, March 2, 2009
“South Park and the Tradition of American Comedy and Liberty,” Program in Western Civilization and American Liberty, University of Maine, Orono, April 3, 2009
“The Spectrum of Love: Nature and Convention in As You Like It,” Assumption College, Worcester Massachusetts, October 16, 2009
“Science Fiction: A Series of Six Lectures,” Center for Liberal Arts, Virginia Beach, October 30-31, November 6-7, 2009
“South Park and Homeland Insecurity: The Imaginationland Trilogy,” Hampden-Sydney College, January 28, 2010
“The Fickle Muse: The Unpredictability of Culture,” Ronald Reagan Symposium on the Future of American Culture, Regent University, Chesapeake, Virginia, February 5, 2010. Broadcast on C-SPAN 2, February 10, 2010
Seminar on von Donnersmarck’s The Lives of Others, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California, March 9, 2010
“Henry V: A Model King?”, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California, March 10, 2010
“Huck Finn and the Lingering Specter of Aristocracy in America,” Center for Liberal Arts and Free Institutions and the Law School, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, March 11, 2010
“Economics and Literature: A Tribute and Celebration,” Austrian Scholars Conference, Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama, March 13, 2010
“The Frontier,” Institute on the Founders and Their Constitution for Judges, George Mason University School of Law, Law & Economics Center, Tucson, Arizona, April 26, 2010
“Love-Life Follows Art: Romeo and Juliet and The Knight of the Burning Pestle, Forty-Ninth State Fellows, University of Alaska, Anchorage, visiting in Staunton, Virginia, May 12, 2010
“Shakespeare and the Roman Regime,” Jepson School of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond, May 13, 2010
“Shakespeare’s Politics,” Marshall Center Seminar, Jepson School of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond, May 14-15, 2010–lecturer and discussion leader, five sessions
“Henry V: A Model King?”, Hertog Political Studies Program, Washington DC, July 14, 2010
“Shakespeare’s Roman Trilogy: The Tragedy of the Republic,” Carl Friedrich von Siemens Institute, Munich, Germany, November 23, 2010
“Shakespeare’s Henry V and the Problem of the Nation State,” the Inaugural Bethel University Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities, St. Paul, Minnesota, January 19, 2011
“Science Fiction: A Series of Six Lectures,” Center for Liberal Arts, Virginia Beach, February 11-12, 18-19, 2011
“Who Wrote Shakespeare’s Plays?”, Miller School of Albemarle County, Crozet, Virginia, February 23, 2011
“Wisdom and Power in King Lear,” Center for Liberal Arts and Free Institutions, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, March 3, 2011
Seminar: The Tempest, Center for Liberal Arts and Free Institutions, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, March 5, 2011—seminar leader
Seminar, “Merchants and Magicians: Renaissance Drama and the Spirit of Commerce,” Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization, Clinton, New York, June 27-28, 2011—seminar leader
Seminar (Five-Day Program), “Shakespeare’s Rome,” Hertog Political Studies Program, George Washington University, Washington, DC, July 18-22, 2011—lecturer and seminar leader
“Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar,” Boston College, October 11, 2011
“Machiavelli and Shakespeare’s Roman Plays,” Boston College, October 11, 2011
“Shakespeare’s Henry V: Good Men and Good Citizens,” Hampden-Sydney College, November 17, 2011
“Mahler and the Austro-Hungarian Empire,” Symposium on Gustav and Alma Mahler, Legatum Institute, Phillips Collection, Washington DC, November 29, 2011
“The Simpsons: A Retrospective,” Wofford College, Spartanburg, South Carolina, April 17, 2012
“What Literature and Economics Can Teach Each Other,” Wofford College, Spartanburg, South Carolina, April 17, 2012
“Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta and Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice,” Tikvah Fund, New York, May 30 and 31, 2012
Seminar (Five-Day Program), “Shakespeare’s Rome,” Hertog Political Studies Program, George Washington University, Washington, DC, July 16-20, 2012—lecturer and seminar leader
“Art as a Mirror or Critic of Popular Culture: Seeing the Unseen,” Conversation Dinners at Kirkland House, Harvard University, October 10, 2012
“Hamlet: The Mousetrap and the Mysteries of Metatheatricality,” Boston College Political Science JMC-Veritas Fund Luncheon-Discussion, October 24, 2012
“Shakespeare and Globalization,” Program on Constitutional Government, Harvard University, November 2, 2012. Available online; search for “PCGatHarvard” on YouTube
“Love, Marriage, and the Family in As You Like It,” Seminar, Tikvah Fund, New York, November 28 and 29, 2012
“Shakespeare’s Venice,” Tikvah Fund, New York, November 29, 2012
“Shakespeare: Playwright of the Globe,” Wilson Center, Hampden-Sydney College, February 20, 2013
“The Apocalyptic Turn in Popular Culture,” Wilson Center, Hampden-Sydney College, February 21, 2013
“Who Wrote Shakespeare’s Plays?”, The Jefferson Literary and Debating Society, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, February 22, 2013
“‘Sitting Pretty at the End of the World’: Apocalyptic Non-State Spaces in Popular Culture,” Political Theory Symposium: “Community and Emergent Order in Non-State Spaces,” Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, April 18, 2013
“The Apocalyptic Strain in Popular Culture: The American Nightmare Becomes the American Dream,” Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures and the Hedgehog Review, University of Virginia, April 26, 2013
“Freedom and Capitalism in Literature,” FreedomFest, Planet Hollywood, Las Vegas, Nevada, July 12, 2013
“Empire and the Loss of Freedom: What Shakespeare’s Rome Can Tell Us About Ours,” FreedomFest, Planet Hollywood, Las Vegas, Nevada, July 13, 2013
Seminar (Five-Day Program)—“Shakespeare’s Rome”—Hertog Political Studies Program, George Washington University, Washington DC, July 22-26, 2013—lecturer and seminar leader
Talk on The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture, New Dominion Bookshop, Charlottesville, Virginia, September 12, 2013
“Popular Culture and Austrian Economics—and Zombies,” Austrian Economics Forum, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, November 8, 2013
“The Economics of Apocalypse: Flying Saucers, Alien Invasions, and the Walking Dead,” Mercatus Center, George Mason University, Arlington, Virginia, November 14, 2013
“Aristocracy in America,” Lence Master Teacher Luncheon Seminar, University of Houston Honors College, February 20, 2014
“The Quarrel Between Philosophy and Poetry in Plato’s Symposium,” Lence Master Teacher Seminar, University of Houston Honors College, February 20, 2014
“Hamlet: The Tragedy of Renaissance Man,” Lence Master Teacher Lecture, University of Houston Honors College, February 21, 2014
“The Economics of Apocalypse: Flying Saucers, Alien Invasions, and the Walking Dead in American Popular Culture,” Lence Master Teacher Dinner, University of Houston Honors College, February 21, 2014
“Wagner and Rousseau: The Ring Cycle as Romantic Creation Myth,” Wagner Society of Washington D.C., Goethe Institute, March 13, 2014
“Trends in Contemporary American Popular Culture,” Lee University, Cleveland, Tennessee, March 28, 2014
“Shakespeare’s Henry V,” Lee University, Cleveland, Tennessee, March 28, 2014
“Shakespeare’s Political Thought,” Lee University, Cleveland, Tennessee, March 28, 2014
“The Apocalyptic Strain in Popular Culture,” Ashbrook Center, Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio, April 11, 2014
Seminar (Five-Day Program)—“Shakespeare’s Rome”--Hertog Political Studies Program, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., July 28-August 1, 2014—lecturer and seminar leader
“Shakespeare as Entrepreneur: The Case of the Blackfriars Theatre,” Gilliam Center for Free Enterprise and Ethical Leadership, Seminar Series, James Madison University, November 6, 2014
“The Apocalyptic Strain in Popular Culture,” Program on Constitutional Government, Harvard University, March 6, 2015
“Henry V for President,” lecture in Government 1358, Presidential Power, Harvard University, March 23, 2015
“The Apocalyptic Strain in Popular Culture,” Conversation Dinners at Kirkland House, Harvard University, April 8, 2015
“Shakespeare and Nietzsche on Rome and Christianity,” Tufts University, Medford Massachusetts, April 17, 2015
“Descartes and the Literature of the Enlightenment: The Case of Tartuffe,” “Descartes and the Enlightenment,” MIT Ben Franklin Project, MIT, May 1, 2015
Bridge Repertory Theater of Boston, production of Julius Caesar, May 21, 2015, Calderwood Pavilion—post-show conversation, with Graham Wilson, Olivia D’Ambrosio, and Rebecca Miller
Seminar (Five-Day Program)—“Shakespeare’s Rome”—Hertog Political Studies Program, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., July 27-July 31—lecturer and seminar leader
“Robinson Crusoe and the Enlightenment Spirit of Capitalism,” Center for the Liberal Arts and Free Institutions, UCLA, Los Angeles, October 8, 2015
“The Merchant of Venice: Shakespeare’s View of the Commercial Republic,” Center for the Liberal Arts and Free Institutions seminar, UCLA, Los Angeles, October 10, 2015
“The Apocalyptic Strain in Popular Culture,” Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee, April 8, 2016
“Liberty and Authority in American Culture,” Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee, April 9, 2016
“Commerce, Culture and the Theory of Spontaneous Order,” Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee, April 9, 2016
Seminar (Five-Day Program)—“Shakespeare’s Rome”—Hertog Political Studies Program, George Washington University, Washington, D. C., July 11-15, 2016—lecturer and seminar leader
Class Visit, EN115/PS115: Concepts of Freedom from Ancient to Modern Times, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, October 6, 2016—on Coriolanus and Julius Caesar
“Shakespeare’s Politics: Republics and Empires, Ancient and Modern,” The Marianne Lannon Lopat Memorial Lecture, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, October 6, 2016
“Shakespeare: For All Time?”, Brentsville District High School, Nokesville, Virginia, December 9, 2016
“A Divided America: As Seen on TV,” Burke Society, University of Virginia, March 30, 2017
Seminar (Five-Day Program)—“Shakespeare’s Rome”—Hertog Political Studies Program, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., July 10-14, 2017—lecturer and seminar leader
“Shakespeare, Rome, and the American Republic,” Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, October 2, 2017
“The Politics of King Lear: A Battle of Power and Wisdom,” Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana, March 9, 2018
“William Shakespeare and the Roots of Western Civilization,” Keynote Address, Shakespeare and His Legacy, Institute for the Study of Western Civilization, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, April 5, 2018
Seminar (Five-Day Program)—“Shakespeare’s Rome”—Hertog Political Studies Program, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., July 16-20, 2018—lecturer and seminar leader
“Politics and Philosophy in Shakespeare’s The Tempest,” The Montesquieu Forum For the Study of Civic Life, Roosevelt University, Chicago, April 4 2019
“Hamlet and Elizabethan Politics,” Washington & Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, May 16, 2019
“De Tocqueville and Democratic Culture,” Washington & Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, May 16 2019
Lecture on Pop Culture and the Dark Side of the American Dream, Hertog Political Studies Program, Washington, DC, July 9, 2019
“My Seminar With Ludwig,” Ludwig von Mises Institute Supporters Summit, Los Angeles, CA, October 26, 2019
“Pop Culture and the American Dream,” Matthew J. Ryan Center, Villanova University, Radnor, PA, February 22, 2020
“Shakespeare and Politics,” Matthew J. Ryan Center, Villanova University, Radnor, PA, February 22, 2020
“How to Write About Popular Culture,” Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan, March 3, 2020
“What Makes a Man to Wander? Understanding The Searchers,” Hillsdale College, March 3, 2020, Center for Constructive Alternatives Conference on “The Westerns of John Ford”
CONFERENCES
Shakespeare Association of America, "New Thoughts on the Tragicomedies," New Orleans 1977--panelist
University of Dallas, "Shakespeare as Political Thinker," 1978-- respondent
Northeastern Political Science Association, "Political Reflection in Shakespeare's Plays," New Haven 1982--panelist
Midwestern Political Science Association, "Shakespeare and Political Philosophy," Chicago 1983--panelist
American Political Science Association, "The Contemporary Return to the Greeks: Nietzsche and Heidegger," Chicago 1983--respondent
Shakespeare Association of America, "Shakespeare and the Classical Tradition," Cambridge 1984--seminar participant
South Atlantic Modern Language Association, "Graduate Curricula and the Canon," Atlanta 1984--panelist (critical theory)
Modern Language Association, "Reading Goals in Nineteenth-Century British Literature," Chicago 1985--panelist
Shakespeare Association of America, "Shakespeare and the Idea of Rome," Montreal 1986--seminar participant
Shakespeare Association of America, "Shakespeare and Modes of Symbolic Geography," Seattle 1987--seminar participant
Shakespeare Association of America, "New Approaches to Othello,"
Boston 1988--seminar participant
Shakespeare Association of America, "Shakespeare's Aliens," Austin 1989--seminar participant
Olin Center,"The End of the West? The End of Modernity," Paris 1989--panel chairman
Mellon Fellows' Conference on Scholarship and Society, "Reading and Relevance," Bryn Mawr, 1991--panelist
World Shakespeare Conference, "Hamlet and Hamletism," Tokyo, 1991--seminar participant
American Political Science Association, "Shakespeare's Politics," Washington, DC, 1991--panelist
Liberty Fund Conference, "Shakespeare's Understanding of Political Liberty," Dallas, 1992--seminar participant
American Political Science Association, "In Memory of Allan Bloom: Politics and the Great Literary Tradition," Washington, DC, 1993--panelist
American Political Science Association, "Roundtable on Poetry and Politics," New York, 1994--panelist
American Political Science Association, "Shakespeare's Thoughts on Ancient Greek Politics and Philosophy," New York, 1994--panelist
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, "Irony, Individuality, and Aesthetic Strategy in German Romanticism," Duke University, 1994--panel chair
Conference for the Study of Political Thought, Virginia Chapter, "Symposium on Tracy Strong, Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Politics of the Ordinary," University of Virginia, 1995--commentator
New York Academy of Sciences, "The Flight from Reason and Science," New York, 1995--panelist
American Political Science Association, "Roundtable on Harold Bloom's The Western Canon," Chicago, 1995--panelist
Association of Literary Scholars and Critics National Conference, "Dante and the Western Canon," Minneapolis, 1995--panelist
National Alumni Forum, "Excellence in Higher Education: How Donors Can Make a Difference," Washington, DC, 1995--panelist
Austrian Scholars Conference, "The Aesthetics of Socialism," Auburn, Alabama, 1996--chair and panelist
College English Association, Annual Conference, Opening Plenary Session, "The Novel and the Globalization of Culture," New Orleans, 1996--respondent
Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, "Dickens and Empire," Montreal, 1996--panelist
Liberty Fund Conference, "Prometheus and Faust," Dallas, 1996--seminar participant
American Political Science Association Convention, "Churchill's Political Thought As Revealed Through His Books," San Francisco, 1996--discussant
American Political Science Association Convention, "Politics, Love, and the Family," San Francisco, 1996--chair
Victorian Institute, "When Money Talked (And How): Victorian Negotiations," Charlottesville, 1996--panelist
Austrian Scholars Conference, "Economic Theory in Literature," Auburn, Alabama, 1997--chair and panelist
Olin Center Conference, "The Closing of the American Mind Revisited," University of Chicago, 1997--panelist, "The Power of Books and Music in the Souls of the Young"
Liberty Fund Conference, "Dante's Understanding of Liberty," Dallas, 1997--seminar participant
Liberty Fund Summer Institute, Big Sky, Montana, 1997--guest scholar (led seminar on King Lear)
Liberty Fund Conference, "Art and Morality in Free Societies,” Big Sky, Montana, 1997--seminar participant
American Political Science Association Convention, "History as the Rhetoric of Statesmanship: The Case of Winston Churchill," Washington, DC, 1997--panelist
Association of Literary Scholars and Critics National Conference, "Jane Austen," San Francisco, 1997--panelist
National Association of Scholars National Conference, "The Effects of Multiculturalism on Scholarship," New Orleans, 1997--panelist
Liberty Fund Conference, "Equality, Individualism, and Law: Robert Bork's Slouching Towards Gomorrah," Tucson, Arizona, 1998--seminar participant
Liberty Fund Conference, "Moral Liberty in the Thought of Jane Austen," Durham, NC, 1998--seminar participant
Austrian Scholars Conference, "Literature, Art, and Economics," Auburn, Alabama, 1998--chair and panelist
Liberty Fund Conference, "Liberty and Artistic Culture," Alexandria, Virginia, 1998--seminar participant
Liberty Fund Conference, "Imagination and Liberty in Don Quixote," Aspen, Colorado, 1998--seminar participant
Liberty Fund Conference, "The Literature of Liberty," Charleston, South Carolina, 1998--co-director
Liberty Fund Summer Institute, Big Sky, Montana, 1998--guest scholar (led seminar on Jonson, The Alchemist)
Liberty Fund Conference, "Liberty and the American West in the Films of John Ford," Phoenix, Arizona, 1998--seminar participant
American Political Science Association Convention, Boston, 1998, "Shakespeare and the Education of Rulers" and "Popular Culture"--panelist
Governor's Blue Ribbon Commission on Higher Education, Virginia State University, March 3, 1999, Panel on Faculty Productivity--"What Do Faculty Do?"--panelist
Austrian Scholars Conference, "Literature, Art, and Economics," Auburn, Alabama, 1999--chair and panelist
Liberty Fund Conference, "Law and Liberty in the Bible," Princeton, New Jersey, 1999--seminar participant
American Political Science Association Convention, Atlanta, 1999, "Popular Culture"—panelist
Liberty Fund Conference, "Liberty and Excellence," Palm Springs, California, 1999--seminar participant
Association of Literary Scholars and Critics National Conference, New York, 1999, "Cervantes and Shakespeare"--chaired discussion session
Liberty Fund Conference, "Democracy and Leadership," Durham, North Carolina, 1999--seminar participant
Austrian Scholars Conference, "Literature and Economics," Auburn, Alabama, 2000--chair and panelist
University of Virginia English Graduate Students Conference, "Millennial Histories and Prophecies: Literary Truth and Scientific Method," Charlottesville, Virginia. 2000--respondent to Keynote Address, "Experiments With Literature" by Franco Moretti; panelist on "Victorian Imperialism and Science"
Gerst Program in Politics, Economics, and Humanistic Studies Conference, "Reason and Virtue in an Age of Opulence," Duke University, 2000--panelist on "Literature, Virtue, and Opulence"
Liberty Fund Conference, “Mean Streets and Hidden Truths,” Palm Springs, California, 2000--seminar participant
Liberty Fund Conference, “Liberty and Moral Community in the Novels of Evelyn Waugh,” Indianapolis, Indiana, 2000--seminar participant
Liberty Fund Conference, “Education and Liberty in Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain,” Denver, Colorado, 2000--seminar participant
Liberty Fund Conference, “Literature and Liberty--The Tragic Perspective,” Dallas, Texas, 2000--co-director
Liberty Fund Conference, “Philosophy’s Political Turn: Liberty and Responsibility in Aristophanes’ Clouds and in Plato’s Symposium and Gorgias” Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2000--seminar participant
American Political Science Association, “Popular Culture,” Washington, DC, 2000--panelist
American Political Science Assocation, “Poetry and Politics in Shakespeare: King Lear,” Washington, DC, 2000--discussant
Mises Institute, “The Rise and Fall of the State,” Auburn, Alabama, 2000--paper on “Television and the Decline of the Nation-State”
Association of Literary Scholars and Critics National Conference, Chicago, 2000, “A New Aesthetics?”--discussant
Wingspread Conference, “Great Books and the Challenge of Academic Pluralism,” Racine, Wisconsin, 2000--panelist on “Great Books and Graduate Education”
Austrian Scholars Conference, “Renaissance Literature and Liberty,” Auburn, Alabama, 2001--chair and panelist
University of South Florida, Annual Honors Conference, “Popular Culture,” Tampa, 2001--paper on “This Is Not Your Father’s FBI--The X-Files and the Delegitimation of the Nation-State”
Liberty Fund Conference, “Liberty in Literature: The Tragic Perspective,” Savannah, Georgia, 2001--co-director
Institute for Humane Studies Summer Seminar, “Liberty and Culture,” Bryn Mawr College, 2001--faculty lecturer and discussion leader
Liberty Fund Conference, “Shakespeare and Hume: English Liberty in the Cradle,” Big Sky, Montana, 2001--Visiting Senior Scholar
Intercollegiate Studies Institute Honors Fellowship Conference, “Modernists and Mist Dwellers--Wagner’s Ring Cycle,” Seattle, 2001--Faculty Lecturer and Seminar Leader
Intercollegiate Studies Institute Honors Fellowship Conference, “Shakespeare’s World Picture,” Oriel College, Oxford, 2001--Faculty Lecturer and Seminar Leader
American Political Science Association, “Roundtable on Paul Cantor’s Gilligan Unbound,” San Francisco, 2001--discussant
American Political Science Association, “Roundtable on John Alvis’ play on Woodrow Wilson,” San Francisco, 2001--discussant
Institute for Criminal Justice Ethics, John Jay College, Conference on Corruption--Public and Private, New York, 2001--panelist
Olin Center Conference, “Democracy and Popular Culture,” Chicago, April 19-20, 2002--”Our Country, Our Culture: The American Debate,” panelist
Law & Economics Center, George Mason University School of Law, Institute on the “Idea of America” for Judges, Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 3-9--faculty lecturer (presentations on Frederick Jackson Turner and John Ford)
Liberty Fund Conference, “The Sublime and Revolution: The Aesthetics of Liberty and Responsibility,” Quebec, June 27-30, 2002--participant
Liberty Fund Conference, “Liberty, Commerce, Virtue, and Sentiment,” Victoria, British Columbia, July 11-14, 2002--participant
American Political Science Association, “Modern Poets and the Revival of Aristotelian Republicanism: Milton, Shaftesbury, and Wodehouse,” Boston, August 30, 2002--panel chair and discussant
Philadelphia Society, “The Creation, Transmission, and Renewal of Culture,” Cleveland, Sept. 20-21, 2002--participant, panel on “The Market for Culture”
Liberty Fund Conference, ”Liberty and Responsibility in Epicurean Philosophy,” Essex Junction, Vermont, Oct. 24-27, 2002--participant
American Council of Trustees and Alumni, 7th Annual ATHENA Roundtable, “Restoring America’s Legacy: What Trustees and Alumni Can Do,” Washington, DC, March 14, 2003--panelist on “Teaching Western Civilization”
Hegeler Institute Arts Colloquium, “After Modernism and Postmodernism: New Directions in the Arts,” La Salle, Illinois, March 28-30, 2003--speaker on “The Importance of Being Odd: Nerdrum’s Challenge to Modernism” and “Francis Ford Coppola as a Case Study of Art and the Marketplace”
Law & Economics Center, George Mason University School of Law, Institute on the “Idea of America” for Judges, Tucson, Arizona, May 6-12, 2003--faculty lecturer (presentations on Frederick Jackson Turner and John Ford)
Liberty Fund Conference, “Tyranny, Power, Freedom, and Responsibility in Schiller’s Writings,” Big Sky, Montana, June 26-29, 2003—seminar participant
Institute for Humane Studies Summer Seminar, “Liberty, Arts, and Culture,” Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, July 12-16, 2003--faculty lecturer and discussion leader
Liberty Fund Conference, “Moral Order in Shakespeare’s Major Tragedies,” Toronto, Canada, August 7-10, 2003--participant
American Political Science Association, “Shakespeare as Political Philosopher: Roundtable on Leon Craig’s Of Philosophers and Kings,” Philadelphia, August 29, 2003--chair and participant
American Political Science Association, “There’s Nothing Political About American Literature,” Philadelphia, August 30, 2003--panelist
Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, “The State of the Profession,” Atlanta, October 24, 2003--panel chair
Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, “What Has Become of Standards in Higher Education?”, Raleigh, North Carolina, November 1, 2003--panelist, “What Has Happened to the Teaching of English?”
Liberty Fund Conference, “Hayek on Law, Legislation, and Liberty,” Tucson, Arizona, November 20-23, 2003—seminar participant
Fifth Samuel P. Capen Symposium in Philosophy, “Philosophy and the Interpretation of Popular Culture,” SUNY, Buffalo, April 2-3, 2004--speaker, “Popular Culture and Spontaneous Order”
Colloquium on the American Founding, Amherst College, April 23-24, 2004--speaker, “The Simpsons and the American Founding,” “King Lear and Natural Right”
Institute for Humane Studies, Summer Seminar, “Liberty, Art, and Culture,” Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, July 17-20, 2004-faculty lecturer and discussion leader
American Political Science Association, “Political Philosophy Comes to Rick’s: Casablanca and American Civic Culture,” Chicago, September 3, 2004--chair and discussant
American Political Science Association, “Macbeth and the Recovery of Classical Natural Right,” Chicago, September 4, 2004--discussant
Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, Annual Conference, New Orleans, November 12-14, 2004--Chair, Conference Committee
Ludwig von Mises Institute, “The Trouble With Taxation,” Charlottesville, VA, January 15, 2005--speaker, “Taxation and Literary History, or Who Killed John Keats?”
Virginia Festival of the Book, “American Culture Classics,” Charlottesville, VA, March 18, 2005--panelist (on Gilligan Unbound)--broadcast on C-Span II, Booknotes, May 14 & 30, June 18, 2005
Institute for Humane Studies, Summer Seminar, “Liberty, Art, and Culture,” Chapman University, Orange, California, July 2-8, 2005--faculty lecturer and discussion leader
Liberty Fund Conference, “Shakespearean Comedy and Statesmanship,” Stratford, Ontario, September 1-4, 2005—seminar participant
Austrian Scholars Conference, Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama, March 18, 2006, “The Political Economy of Mark Twain”–paper on “Free Trade Theory in Connecticut Yankee”
American Political Science Association, “Drama and Democracy,” Philadelphia, September 2, 2006–Roundtable, paper on “Scorsese’s The Aviator: An American Tragedy”
American Political Science Assocation, “Churchill’s Thoughts as Adventures,” Philadelphia, September 2, 2006–discussant
Liberty Fund Conference, “Liberty, Science, and Responsibility in Literature and Film,“ Toronto, Ontario, Oct. 12-15, 2006–-seminar participant
Liberty Fund Conference, “Liberty and Authority in Western Drama,” Chicago, Nov. 30-Dec. 3, 2006–-seminar participant
English Department Lecture Series, “Civil Liberties and the War on Terror: What Would Jefferson Do?,” University of Virginia. January 26, 2007–panelist
Institute for European Studies, University of California, Berkeley, “Globalization Comes Home: How Globalization is Transforming the West,” Berkeley, California, Feb. 3, 2007-–“Un-American Gothic: The Fear of Globalization in Popular Culture”–panelist on “The Expression of Fear, and the Search for New Paradigms”
Association for Core Texts and Courses, Thirteenth Annual Conference, “From Here to There: The Odyssey of the Liberal Arts,” Williamsburg, Virginia, March 30, 2007–“The Homeric Question: Is the Odyssey a Great Book?”–plenary speaker
National Endowment for the Humanities, “Harvey Mansfield as Teacher,” May 8, 2007, Washington, DC–discussant
Liberty Fund Conference, “Liberty and Responsibility in the Scopes Trial,” Columbia Falls, Montana, July 12-15, 2007–seminar participant
American Political Science Association, “Print the Legend: John Ford’s Interpretation of America,” Chicago, August 30, 2007–panelist
Liberty Fund Conference, “Adam Smith on Liberty and Propriety,” Santa Fe, New Mexico, January 24-27, 2008–seminar participant
Liberty Fund Conference, “Wealth, Happiness and Liberty in Modern Economic Debate,” San Diego, California, February 21-24, 2008–seminar participant
George Mason Law & Economics Center, “American Virtues: A Colloquium for Film Producers,” Ojai, California, April 4-6, 2008–keynote speaker, “Stagecoach Then and Now”
Liberty Fund Conference, “Income, Initiative, and Personal Responsibility in American Realist Literature,” Cleveland, Ohio, July 31-August 3, 2008–seminar participant
American Political Science Association, “Damned If You Do: Dilemmas of Action in Literature and Popular Culture,” Boston, August 29, 2008–participant
Virginia Film Festival, “Aliens!”, Charlottesville, November 2, 2008–discussant on Cat People (1942)
George Mason University School of Law, Law & Economics Center, Colloquium: “A Fresh Start Country,” Tucson, Arizona, April 23-26, 2009–discussion leader
Liberty Fund Conference, “Intellectuals and Liberty,” Charleston, SC, May 14-17, 2009–seminar participant
American Political Science Association, “Art and Politics in Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s The Lives of Others, Toronto, September 4, 2009--participant
“Love and Honor in Shakespeare,” Assumption College, Worcester Massachusetts, October 17, 2009–discussant, roundtable: “Reflections on Love and Honor in Shakespeare”
Liberty Fund Conference, “Correcting the Ideological Imbalance in Higher Education–50th Anniversary Conference,” La Jolla, California, February 11-14, 2010–seminar participant
American Political Science Association, “The Philosopher Role: Casting Political Theory in Our Film Dreamscapes,” Seattle, September 3, 2011--participant
Austrian Scholars Conference, Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama, March 10, 2012—panel on “Literature and Liberty”—paper “Resolution and Financial Independence: Wordsworth’s Obsession with Copyright Laws”
“Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind on its 25th Anniversary,” Harvard Program on Constitutional Government, Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 21, 2012—panelist on “Students”
Workshop on Leo Strauss’s “Note on the Plan of Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil,” Jefferson Hotel, Washington DC, August 8-9, 2013--participant
American Political Science Association, “Tales of the Market: (Anti-)Capitalist Persuasion in Narrative Form,” Chicago, August 30, 2013—discussant
Property and Freedom Society, Eighth Annual Meeting, Bodrum, Turkey, September 19-24, 2013—speaker on “What Literature Can Teach Economics”
“Shaping Society: The Intersection of Economics and Culture,” American Enterprise Institute, Washington DC, December 6, 2013—panelist, “Shakespeare and the Bourgeois Virtues”
“Dante: Then and Now, High and Low,” Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, January 30, introduced film screening, and January 31, “Art and Performance”—panelist, “Dante on the Silver Screen: From Silent to Violent”
“Examining Popular Culture,” Virginia Festival of the Book, Charlottesville, Virginia, March 21, 2014—panelist, spoke on The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture
American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Roundtable on Leon Craig’s The Platonian Leviathan, Washington DC, August 28, 2014--participant
Liberty Fund Conference, “Liberty in Beethoven’s Fidelio,” Louisville, Kentucky, September 18-21, 2014—seminar participant
AsidesLIVE Symposium: “Othello: Iago—The Perfect Villain,” Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington, DC, March 6, 2016—panelist
Austrian Economics Research Conference, Literature Panel, Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama, April 1, 2016—paper on Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South
“What Is a Human Being?”, Seventh Annual Villefranche Meeting, Cap Estel, France, June 12-16, 2016—panelist, Session III, “The Nature of the Human Mind: Reductionist or Non-Reductionist Understandings; Freud or Shakespeare?”
American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Eric Voegelin Society: Roundtable on Leon Craig’s The Philosopher’s English King, Philadelphia PA, September 3, 2016—participant
Workshop on Education, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA, January 12, 2017—participant
Workshop on Leo Strauss’s “Persecution and the Art of Writing,” Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA, January 13-14—participant
Liberty Fund Conference, “Spontaneous Order versus Rationalism in Defense of Liberty: Wittgenstein, Hayek, Oakeshott,” Jekyll Island, Georgia, January 26-29, 2017—seminar participant
Monument Valley Online Webex Seminar, “Shakespeare’s Richard III and Macbeth,” February 4, 2017—seminar participant
“Why is the Golden Age of Entertainment So Dark?”, Hillsdale College Kirby Center, Washington D.C., July 17, 2017—panelist
Liberty Fund Conference, “Frank H. Knight: Intelligence and Democratic Action,” Indianapolis, Indiana, September 7-10, 2017—seminar participant
Workshop on Leo Strauss’s “What Is Political Philosophy?,” Claremont Salvatori Center, Jefferson Hotel, Washington D.C., October 27-28, 2017--participant
Workshop on Shakespeare (Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra), Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA, March 2-3, 2018--participant
Workshop on Leo Strauss’s “Political Philosophy and History,” Claremont Salvatori Center, Goodstone Inn, Middleburg, VA, June 28-30, 2018—participant
“Hollywood and the New Aristocracy,” Hillsdale College, Kirby Center, Washington, D.C., July 26, 2018—panelist
Panel on “Liberty and Literature” (“Goethe’s Faust: The Theology of Spontaneous Order”) and Panel on Murray Rothbard and Modern Political Philosophy, Libertarian Scholars Conference, The King’s College, New York City, October 20, 2018
Liberty Fund Conference, “George Bernard Shaw and Friedrich Hayek on Poverty, Socialism, and Human Nature,” Jekyll Island, GA, June 6-9, 2019—seminar participant
Liberty Fund Conference, “Freedom and Law in Sophocles and Aeschylus,” Charleston, SC, December 5-8, 2019—seminar participant
RADIO, FILM, TELEVISION, AND PODCASTS
Seth Williamson, WVTF, Roanoke, on Weekly Standard wrestling article, conducted October 6, 1999, aired October 13, 1999
Michael Medved’s talk show, KVI, Seattle (Talk Radio 570), topic: pro wrestling, January 6, 2000
Milt Rosenberg talk show, WGN, Chicago (720 AM radio), topic: the state of the humanities, October 27, 2000
Nancy King show, “Charlottesville Live,” WINA (1070 AM), topic: The Simpsons, November 3, 2000
Tom Clark talk show, Wisconsin Public Radio, topic: Gilligan Unbound, November 2, 2001
Sheila Hamilton talk show, WPAM, Portland, Oregon (860 AM), topic: Gilligan Unbound, November 2, 2001
“First Light,” NBC Radio Network, topic: Gilligan Unbound, November 13, 2001
WGRF, Buffalo (96.9 FM), topic: Gilligan Unbound, November 28, 2001
KXEL, Waterloo, Iowa (1540 AM), Mike Bunge Show, topic: Gilligan Unbound, December 3, 2001
KWIX, Moberly, Missouri, topic: Gilligan Unbound, December 4, 2001
KKCS, Colorado Springs (1460 AM), Brian Lifeger Show, topic: Gilligan Unbound, December 11, 2001
KFIV (1360 AM)/KUYL ( 1280 AM), ABC Network, Modesto, California, the Greg & Tom Show, topic: Gilligan Unbound, December 14, 2001
Jordan Rich Show, WBZ, Boston (1030 AM), topic: Gilligan Unbound, January 6, 2002
WEKZ, Monroe, Wisconsin (1260 AM), topic: Gilligan Unbound, January 7, 2002
The Ben & Jim Show, KVMI (96.7 FM), Fargo, North Dakota, topic: Gilligan Unbound, January 16, 2002
The Connection, NPR, WBUR (90.9 FM), Boston, topic: Gilligan Unbound, with Bob Denver, January 25, 2002
Dan Valenti Show, WBRK, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, topic: Gilligan Unbound, February 4, 2002
Charlottesville Live, WINA (1070 AM), topic: Gilligan Unbound, April 9, 2002
Seth Williamson, WVTF, Roanoke, topic: Gilligan Unbound, conducted April 17, 2002
Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call, WNRN (91.9 FM), Charlottesville, host–Rick Moore, February 5, 2006, topic: Gilligan Unbound and contemporary pop culture
“Commerce and Culture”–a series of ten lectures at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama, July 24-28, 2006–live podcast (audio and video) and available at www.mises.org under Media Archives
“Paul Cantor on Shakespeare,” interview with Peter Schramm, Feb. 20, 2007–http://www.ashbrook.org/podcasts/schramm.htm
“Whose Side is Bart on?” (interview on The Simpsons), conducted by Phill Jupitus on May 18, 2007, broadcast June 30, 2007, BBC Radio 4
“Family Values in The Simpsons”, Life Matters, ABC Radio National, Sydney, Australia, broadcast July 27, 2007
“Intellectual Diversity in Academia,” John Gambling Show, WABC New York, November 19, 2007
Interview with Malgosha Gago on Casablanca for a film documentary entitled A Very Secret Agent, Back to Casablanca, Ideale Audience (producer)–June 4, 2008, Washington DC
“The Simpsons 450th Episode,” with Stan Bunger and Susan Leigh Taylor, KCBS (740 AM), San Francisco, January 8, 2010, archived at www.kcbs.com
Interview with Michael Moynihan on reasontv.com about Literature and the Economics of Liberty, Washington DC, September 3, 2010
Interview with Richard Sincere, “Cultural critic Paul Cantor assesses the politics of the new TV season,” Charlottesville VA, September 30, 2010.
“Popular Culture,” with Christopher Dziedzic and Ed Lass, The Right Hook, April 5, 2011, archived at www.blogtalkradio.com/therighthook/2011/04/06/the-right-hook.
Interview with Coy Barefoot, “Charlottesville-Right Now,” WINA 1070 AM, July 25, 2011—on Sherwood Schwartz and Gilligan’s Island, podcast at http://www.wina.com/play window.php?audioType=Episodes&audioID=
5396797
Interview with Charlie Thomas and Dreama Denver, WGAG 93.1 FM/Little Buddy Radio, Princeton, WV, July 27, 2011—on Sherwood Schwartz, Bob Denver, and Gilligan’s Island
Interview with Lew Rockwell on Ludwig von Mises’ NYU Seminar, April 4, 2012
“Live free and prosper: How pop culture influences our values and worldviews,” with Matt K. Lewis about The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture on The Daily Caller, posted on December 17, 2012 (recorded December 13, 2012)
Interview about The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture on the Jack Abramoff Show, XM Talk 168, February 17, 2013
“The Walking Dead vs. the Feds! Paul Cantor on TV’s Zombie Apocalpyse,” interview on ReasonTV with Katherine Mangu-Ward, on March 12, 2013, published on March 25, 2013—interview about The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture
Interview about The Invisble Hand in Popular Culture with Jeffrey Tucker of Laissez-Faire Books, at FreedomFest, Las Vegas, July 13, 2013—http:/lfb.org/interview-with-paul-cantor-at-freedomfest/
Interview about The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture with Peter Slen, C-SPAN 2, Book TV at FreedomFest, Las Vegas (Planet Hollywood), July 13, 2013—first televised August 25, 2013; rebroadcast October 13, 2013
Interview about The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture with Rick Moore, “Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call,” WNRN, 91.9 FM, Charlottesville, Virginia, August 25, 2013
Interview about The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture with Julia Kudravetz, “Soundboard,” WTJU, 91.1 FM, Charlottesville, Virginia, September 11, 2013
Interview about apocalyptic themes in American pop culture with Lisa Fletcher, “The Stream,” Al Jazeera America TV, October 4, 2013 (rebroadcast October 5)
Interview with Guillermo Jimenez about pop culture, zombies, and The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture, “Traces of Reality,” October 26, 2013
The Diane Rehm Show, WAMU/NPR, 88.5 FM, “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,” October 30, 2013—guest
“Conversations with Bill Kristol”—interview on Shakespeare, AEI, Washington DC, November 15, 2013—available at
http://conversationswithbillkristol.org/video/paul-cantor/
Shakespeare and Politics Web Site—a series of 48 lectures and 10 seminar meetings, available at: http://thegreatthinkers.org/shakespeare-and-politics
Interview with Richard Sincere, “UVA English professor Paul Cantor explores zombies and liberty in pop culture,” Arlington, Virginia, November 14, 2013, posted November 16, 2013—http://www.examiner.com/
Article/uva-english-professor-paul-cantor-explores-zombies-and-
liberty-pop-culture
Interview with Allen St. John, on the mid-season finale of The Walking Dead, Forbes.com, December 3, 2013
Podcast on Dallas Buyers Club, on Econstories.tv, with Steve Horwitz and Andrew Heaton, March 4, 2014, http://econstories.tv/econpop-dallas-buyers-club
Interview about the Virginia Festival of the Book and The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture with Rick Moore, “Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call,” WNRN, 91.9 FM, Charlottesville, Virginia, March 16, 2014
Podcast on House of Cards, on Econstories.tv, with Steve Horwitz and Andrew Heaton
Podcast on Ghostbusters, on Econstories.tv, with Steve Horwitz and Andrew Heaton
Podcast on Wall-E, on Econstories.tv, with Steve Horwitz and Andrew Heaton
Podcast on The Lego Movie, on Econstories.tv, with Steve Horwitz and Andrea Heaton
Podcast on Back to School, on Econstories.tv, with Steve Horwitz and Andrew Heaton
Podcast on Elysium, on Econstories.tv, with Steve Horwitz and Andres Heaton
Podcast on Treasure of the Sierra Madre, on Econstories.tv, with Steve Horwitz and Andrew Heaton
Podcast on It’s a Wonderful Life, on Econstories.tv, with Steve Horwitz and Andrew Heaton
Podcast on The Hudsucker Proxy, on Econstories.tv, with Steve Horwitz and Andrew Heaton
Podcast on Robocop, on Econstories.tv, with Steve Horwitz and Andres Heaton
Podcast on The Shawshank Redemption, on Econstories.tv, with Steve Horwitz and Andrew Heaton
Podcast on Castaway, on Econstories.tv, with Steve Horwitz and Andrew Heaton
Podcast on Demolition Man, on Econstories.tv, with Steve Horwitz and Andrew Heaton
“Conversations with Bill Kristol”—interview on popular culture, AEI, Washington DC, July 10, 2015, available at:
http://conversationswithbillkristol.org/video/paul-cantor-ii/
“Does Capitalism Destroy Culture? Literature and the Market,” podcast, Tom Woods Show, Episode 560, December 23, 2015
“Conversations with Bill Kristol”—interview on literature and liberty, July 12, 2016, available at:
http://conversationswithbillkristol.org/video/paul-cantor-iii/
“Conversations with Bill Kristol”—interview on Shakespeare’s Roman Trilogy: The Twilight of the Ancient World, July 14, 2017, posted September 25, 2017
Podcast on “What Shakespeare’s Roman Plays Teach Us About Modern Politics,” The Federalist Radio Hour, July 17, 2017, Hillsdale College Kirby Center, Washington D.C., interview with Ben Domenech
Podcast on Shakespeare’s Roman Trilogy, July 19, 2017—with John J. Miller (National Review)
Podcast on Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, September 27, 2017—with John J. Miller (National Review/The Great Books)
“Shakespeare, Rome and the American Republic,” lecture given at Ohio University on Oct. 2, 2017, available on:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxpjlJvXUMA
Institute Encounters, interview with Stephen Balch on “Shakespeare and the Roots of Western Civilization,” Texas Tech University, published June 13, 2018
“Conversations with Bill Kristol”—interview on popular culture, May 9, 2018
“Conversations with Bill Kristol” interview on Pop Culture and the Dark Side of the American Dream, July 17,2018
Podcast on popular culture, with Titus Techera, American Cinema Foundation Critic Series #17, November 1, 2018 https://soundcloud.com/user-77539699/
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Podcast on the Frankenstein story, with Titus Techera, American Cinema Foundation Critic Series #19, December 28, 2018 https:/soundcloud.com/user-77539699/
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“Conversations with Bill Kristol,” interview on the Western, March 15, 2019
Podcast on War of the Worlds and its heritage, with Titus Techera, American Cinema Foundation Critic Series #24, March 1, 2019
Podcast on the early film career of Tim Burton, with Titus Techera, American Cinema Foundation Critic Series #26, April 1, 2019
Podcast on Breaking Bad with Titus Techera, American Cinema Foundation Critic Series, #28, May 16, 2019
Podcast on The Walking Dead with Titus Techera, American Cinema Foundation Critic Series, #29, May 25, 2019 (https://soundcloud.com/user-77539699/acf-critic-series-30-the-walking-dead)
Podcast on Deadwood, the tv series and the movie, with Titus Techera, American Cinema Foundation Critic Series #34, July 3, 2019
Conversation with Bill Kristol, interview on the Shakespeare Authorship Question, July 9, 2019—posted on November 4, 2019
Freedom Hub Working Group Webinar on Pop Culture and the Dark Side of the American Dream, December 11, 2019 with Jeff Kanter and Charles Frohman
Podcast on Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, Episode 124, March 2, 2020—with John J. Miller (National Review/The Great Books)—posted March 24, 2020
Webinar on “The Walking Dead, the Post-Zombie Apocalypse, and the American Capacity for Resilience,” Pandemic Dialogues, School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership, Arizona State University, May 18, 2020
AWARDS AND HONORS
Ludwig von Mises Prize for Scholarship in Austrian School Economics, 1992
American Political Science Association, Award for Best Paper in Politics and Literature Section, 1998 Convention
Gilligan Unbound chosen as one of the Best Non-Fiction Books of 2001 by the Los Angeles Times
Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University, Fall, 2007
Lence Master Teacher, University of Houston Honors College, 2014
Liberty Fund Conference devoted to discussing my book Shakespeare’s Roman Trilogy, “Liberty and Responsibility in Shakespeare’s Roman Trilogy,” Westgate Hotel, San Diego, California, April 11-14, 2019
OUTSIDE SERVICE
Director, NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers (Shakespeare and Politics), 1987, 1989
National Council on the Humanities, 1992-1999
Acacdemic Review Committee, Institute for Humane Studies, 1996-2005
Associated Scholar, Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1998-
Academic Review Committee, Gould Center for Humanistic Studies, Claremont College, May 2-3, 2003
EconPop Media Advisory Board, Emergent Order, Austin, Texas, 2013-15
Board Member, American Cinema Foundation, 2018-