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Ron Seyb has been seen on News Channel 13 at the anchor desk and is a contributor to Saratoga’s newest online publication Saratoga Wire . Prof Seyb has many special guests scheduled to speak to his Presidency, Psychology of Politics and Virtual Republic classes this semester.

Will Sharry ’11 and Bob Turner have coauthored an article, “From Progressive Pioneer to Nativist Crackdown: The Transformation of

Immigrant Policy in Oklahoma” in the December 2012 issue of Politics & Policy . The article is based on some of the research Will conducted for his honors thesis in government. Pro-fessor Turner also organized a debate on the revision of the Saratoga Springs city char-ter as part of the We the People exhibit at the Tang that was attended by over 70 members of the community and his Introduction to Amer-ican Government classes. He will also be hosting a public meeting of the Saratoga Springs School Board in January as part of the We the People exhibit. Professor Turner was on Channel 13 to discuss the debate between US Senator Gillibrand and Wendy Long and this past summer served as director of the Skidmore Faculty/Student Re-search Program.

This past June Flagg Taylo r was in Prague to interview former Czech anti-communist dissidents, and while there made plans for an additional trip now scheduled for January 2013. The collected mate-rial will be used for a book about the life and political thought of these heroic figures. Prof Taylor is also editing an English translation of a collection of essays of one of the more prominent dissidents, Vaclav Benda.   

Natalie Taylor recently completed an essay, “‘Mistaken Notions of Female Excellence’: Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of Virtue” for a collection of essays on Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. The essay considers Wollstonecraft’s engagement with the Scottish Enlightenment thinkers on the nature of woman and the nature of political life.

Since the spring 2012 Newsletter Professor Burns has been engaged in a number of scholarly projects. He presented a paper on Bacon’s

New Atlantis at the ISSEI, in Cyprus in July. In mid-November he travels to Boston for the NPSA Meeting, where he will present a pa-per. He has also been invited to present “Francis Bacon and the Goals of Modernity,” at MIT on November 16 th . In January he will be at-tending a mini-conference on Descartes in Austin, and in April, the Midwest PSA in Chicago.

The manuscript of Introduction to Political Philosophy , Burns’ third book, which he is co-authoring with Thomas Pangle, will be submit-ted to Cambridge University Press in December. Burns completed his fourth book, Shakespeare’s Political Wisdom , this summer; it will be published by Palgrave in April. Professor Burns also secured over the summer two new contracts for books. One is with Brill Academic Publishing to edit Companion to Leo Strauss’ Writings on Classical Political Thought , which will be published in 2015. He secured a preliminary contract for his sixth book, Philosophy, History, and Tyranny: Re-examining the Debate Between Leo Strauss and Alexan-dre Kojève , which he will be editing with Bryan-Paul Frost. He con-tinued his revisions of Thucydides and the Grounding of the Rational Life , his seventh book, which he’ll have ready for submission to a press by the end of November. Finally, Burns is co-editor (with Thomas Pangle) of a new series with Palgrave Macmillan, called

Recovering Political Philosophy .

Burns has had eight more articles accepted for publication since May, and another is under review. He completed a two-part series of arti-cles on Nicias in Thucydides and Aristophanes, both of which will appear in the peer-reviewed journal Polis (Vol 29.2 and 30.1). “A New Perspective on Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil ” will appear in the peer-reviewed journal Interpretation, A Journal of Political Philosophy in December. “Leo Strauss’ ‘The Intellectual Situation of the Present’” will be published in Reorientation: Leo Strauss’ Politi-cal-Philosophic Discoveries in the 1930s . “Bacon’s New Atlantis and the Goals of Modernity” will appear in Socrates and Dionysus: Phi-losophy and Art in Dialogue . “Hobbes and Dionysius of Halicarnas-sus on Thucydides, Rhetoric and Political Life” will be published in

Polis in Fall 2013. “Why Do We Wear These Robes and Hoods?” will appear in next June’s issue of Perspectives On Political Science , of which Burns is special editor. “MLK, Augustine, and Civil Disobedi-ence” will appear in From Compassion to Humanity: Essays in Honor of Clifford Orwin . Finally, Burns submitted “John Courtney Murray, Religious Liberty, and Modernity” to the journal Logos .

 

Thank you to the following students and alumni who have contributed to this edition of the newsleter: 

 

Maggie Abernethy, Johanna Barr, Amy Bergstraesser, Mat Choi, Wyat Erchak, Connor Grant‐Knight,  Willa Jones, Olivia Kinnear, Sadie Kitchen, Jean‐Ann Kubler, Andrew Lowy, Tim Lueders‐Dumont,  Alex Miller, Ellie Nichols, Aaron Shifreen, David Solomon, Roger Wieand and Jeremy Wood