Bruce P Frohnen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1106184 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bruce P Frohnen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bruce P |
| FAMILY NAME | Frohnen |
| SIGNATURE | FROHNEN B P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell College Mount Vernon Iowa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Unruly Replies
Law Schools and the Impoverished View of Free Speech
Books by two broadly libertarian lawyers—Jonathan Turley’s The Indispensable Right and Ilya Shapiro’s Lawless—seek to explain what Turley calls the “alliance of academic, media, and corporate interests with the government” which has “created an existential threat” to free speech. Law professor Bruce P. Frohnen finds that the “problem is that both authors overlook the role played by educational corruption in producing authoritarian institutions, b…
Vindicating Liberalism
In The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics, Kody Cooper and Justin Dyer argue, based on convincing evidence, that there was substantial consensus among Americans at the time of the Revolution concerning the reality of God, virtue, and basic rules for a just social order. Unfortunately, their narrow focus on Revolutionary debates and a few passages from the Declaration of Independence distorts their analysis of the American consti…
Hazony, Traditional Conservatism, and the Problem of History
Yoram Hazony’s recent book, Conservatism: A Rediscovery, is the closest one gets to a political theory of national conservatism. Hazony recognizes many of the same political goods that traditional conservatives and Catholic thinkers do. However, Hazony’s particular understanding of nationalism undermines these goods by advocating for a centralized state at the expense of healthy regionalism. Hazony overlooks the contribution made by the Catholic …
Common Good Constitutionalism and the Problem of Administrative Absolutism
This article responds to the theory of Common Good Constitutionalism as posited by Adrian Vermeule. He argues that a powerful centralized government composed of wise rulers must use law to direct the public towards a proper political and substantive morality to achieve the ends of the common good. This article then explores the broader concept of Integralism, in which Common Good Constitutionalism is rooted, similar in its belief that politics mu…
Critical Race Theory and the Will to Power
Response to James E. Fleming’s review of Constitutional Morality and the Rise of Quasi-Law
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Constitutional Morality and the Rise of Quasi-Law
Waivers, Federalism, and the Rule of Law
Waivers from legislation have been praised as the foundation for a new era of collaborative federalism. But these exceptions of law, often made without clear statutory authority, undermine the necessary basis for collaboration among governmental entities. That basis is law. Waivers in effect dispense from or even change laws in the interests of administrative flexibility. And, while some commentators have lauded this increased flexibility as empo…
The Fragility of Elementary Decency
Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals
The focal point of this book is Matthew Man-cini's rejection of the common assertion that the thinking of Alexis de Tocqueville disappeared as a topic of American intellectual discourse in the late nineteenth century and reappeared in the mid-twentieth century as a foundational element of the consensus school of American history. Mancini shows that Tocqueville never disappeared from American intellectual life and so could not have been rediscover…
Burkean Virtue and the Conservative Good Life
Variously characterized as pragmatic, utilitarian, skeptical, or prudential, Edmund Burke's thought is not seen as providing a full and coherent prescription for how we should live our lives. I argue that Burke does provide such a prescription; one embodied in the notion of a conservative good life. In this good life, citizens serve society, in their historically prescribed positions and capacities, out of affectionate attachment to family, local…
Virtue and the Promise of Conservatism
Journal Article Virtue and the Promise of Conservatism: The Legacy of Burke and Tocqueville. By Bruce Frohnen. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993. x, 251 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-7006-0558-4.) Get access Matthew Mancini Matthew Mancini Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 1, June 1994, Pages 272–273, http…
Sociology
International Relations and Politics
Oakeshott's Hobbesian Myth
Oakeshott's Hobbesian Myth
We are apt to think of a civilization as something solid and external, but at bottom it is a collective dream. &dquo;In so far as the soul is in the body&dquo;, says Plotinus, &dquo;it lies in deep sleep.&dquo; What a people dreams in this earthly sleep is its civilization. And the substance of this dream is a myth, an imaginative interpretation of human existence, the perception (not the solution) of the mystery of human life. (Oakeshott 1975: 1…
Waivers, Federalism, and the Rule of Law
Waivers from legislation have been praised as the foundation for a new era of collaborative federalism. But these exceptions of law, often made without clear statutory authority, undermine the necessary basis for collaboration among governmental entities. That basis is law. Waivers in effect dispense from or even change laws in the interests of administrative flexibility. And, while some commentators have lauded this increased flexibility as empo…
Virtue and the Promise of Conservatism
Journal Article Virtue and the Promise of Conservatism: The Legacy of Burke and Tocqueville. By Bruce Frohnen. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993. x, 251 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-7006-0558-4.) Get access Matthew Mancini Matthew Mancini Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 1, June 1994, Pages 272–273, http…
International Relations and Politics
Oakeshott's Hobbesian Myth
Oakeshott's Hobbesian Myth
We are apt to think of a civilization as something solid and external, but at bottom it is a collective dream. &dquo;In so far as the soul is in the body&dquo;, says Plotinus, &dquo;it lies in deep sleep.&dquo; What a people dreams in this earthly sleep is its civilization. And the substance of this dream is a myth, an imaginative interpretation of human existence, the perception (not the solution) of the mystery of human life. (Oakeshott 1975: 1…
International Relations and Politics
Sociology
Burkean Virtue and the Conservative Good Life
Variously characterized as pragmatic, utilitarian, skeptical, or prudential, Edmund Burke's thought is not seen as providing a full and coherent prescription for how we should live our lives. I argue that Burke does provide such a prescription; one embodied in the notion of a conservative good life. In this good life, citizens serve society, in their historically prescribed positions and capacities, out of affectionate attachment to family, local…
Virtue and the Promise of Conservatism
Journal Article Virtue and the Promise of Conservatism: The Legacy of Burke and Tocqueville. By Bruce Frohnen. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993. x, 251 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-7006-0558-4.) Get access Matthew Mancini Matthew Mancini Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 1, June 1994, Pages 272–273, http…
The Fragility of Elementary Decency
Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals
The focal point of this book is Matthew Man-cini's rejection of the common assertion that the thinking of Alexis de Tocqueville disappeared as a topic of American intellectual discourse in the late nineteenth century and reappeared in the mid-twentieth century as a foundational element of the consensus school of American history. Mancini shows that Tocqueville never disappeared from American intellectual life and so could not have been rediscover…
Constitutional Morality and the Rise of Quasi-Law
Waivers, Federalism, and the Rule of Law
Waivers from legislation have been praised as the foundation for a new era of collaborative federalism. But these exceptions of law, often made without clear statutory authority, undermine the necessary basis for collaboration among governmental entities. That basis is law. Waivers in effect dispense from or even change laws in the interests of administrative flexibility. And, while some commentators have lauded this increased flexibility as empo…
Response to James E. Fleming’s review of Constitutional Morality and the Rise of Quasi-Law
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Critical Race Theory and the Will to Power
Common Good Constitutionalism and the Problem of Administrative Absolutism
This article responds to the theory of Common Good Constitutionalism as posited by Adrian Vermeule. He argues that a powerful centralized government composed of wise rulers must use law to direct the public towards a proper political and substantive morality to achieve the ends of the common good. This article then explores the broader concept of Integralism, in which Common Good Constitutionalism is rooted, similar in its belief that politics mu…
Hazony, Traditional Conservatism, and the Problem of History
Yoram Hazony’s recent book, Conservatism: A Rediscovery, is the closest one gets to a political theory of national conservatism. Hazony recognizes many of the same political goods that traditional conservatives and Catholic thinkers do. However, Hazony’s particular understanding of nationalism undermines these goods by advocating for a centralized state at the expense of healthy regionalism. Hazony overlooks the contribution made by the Catholic …
Vindicating Liberalism
In The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics, Kody Cooper and Justin Dyer argue, based on convincing evidence, that there was substantial consensus among Americans at the time of the Revolution concerning the reality of God, virtue, and basic rules for a just social order. Unfortunately, their narrow focus on Revolutionary debates and a few passages from the Declaration of Independence distorts their analysis of the American consti…
Unruly Replies
Law Schools and the Impoverished View of Free Speech
Books by two broadly libertarian lawyers—Jonathan Turley’s The Indispensable Right and Ilya Shapiro’s Lawless—seek to explain what Turley calls the “alliance of academic, media, and corporate interests with the government” which has “created an existential threat” to free speech. Law professor Bruce P. Frohnen finds that the “problem is that both authors overlook the role played by educational corruption in producing authoritarian institutions, b…
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