Editorial Board

Jeremy Bell is a lecturer in philosophy, history and theology at Campion College, Sydney. In 2006 he was awarded a General Sir John Monash Award to support his doctoral studies with the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He began teaching at Campion in 2015, several months before defending his doctoral dissertation on Elizabeth Anscombe’s philosophy of mind. His research interests are chiefly in ethics and Thomist philosophy.

Ronna Burger is Professor of Philosophy, Catherine & Henry J. Gaisman Chair, Director of Judeo-Christian Studies and of the Religious Studies Minor, and Affiliate Professor of Jewish Studies. She is the author of books on Plato and Aristotle as well as numerous articles in the fields of Ancient Philosophy, Bible, and Maimonides. 

Timothy W. Burns is Professor of Political Science at Baylor University, where he also served as Graduate Program Director from 2014-2023. He is also editor in chief of Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy. His research interests are in the history of political philosophy, classical and modern political thought, politics and literature, politics and religion, Shakespeare's political thought, and the thought of Leo Strauss.

Dezső Csejtei is professor of philosophy at the University of Szeged. Csejtei is known for his expertise on hermeneutics, philosophy of history and theology. He is a former president of Hungarian Philosophical Society. Among his major works are José Ortega y Gasset (1980), The History of Spanish Existentialism (1986), and several studies on the philosophy of death, including Philosophical Études on Finitude (2001) and The Hermeneutics of Death (2001). He has co-authored numerous books such as The Discovery of America and the New Global Order (2004) and The Life and Philosophy of Oswald Spengler (2009).

Chantal Delsol is professor of philosophy at the University of Marne-la-Vallée (since 2020 University Gustave-Eiffel ) where she directs the center for European studies, known as the Hannah Arendt Institute, which she founded in 1993. She is also an elected member of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques (Institut de France). Chantal Delsol is the author of numerous books, including La Fin de la Chrétienté (The end of Christianity) and the upcoming book Prosperity and Torment in France: The Paradox of the Democratic Age (August 2025).

James Hankins is a Harvard Professor of History specialized in the Italian Renaissance. He is the Founder and General Editor of the I Tatti Renaissance Library (Harvard University Press) and Associate Editor of the Catalogus Translationum and Commentariorum (Union Academique Internationale).

Ferenc Hörcher is a professor of the history of political thought, a political philosopher, and a philosopher of art. His earlier monographs include A Political Philosophy of Conservatism. Prudence, Moderation and Tradition (2020), A Political Philosophy of the European City: From Polis, through City-State, to Megalopolis? (Lexington Books, 2021) Art and Politics in Roger Scruton's Conservative Philosophy (2023). He coedited with Daniel Pitt Intellectual Conservatism from Burke to Scruton (2025). His new book is An Aristotelian Philosophy of Civility (2026).

Zbigniew Janowski is a retired philosophy professor who taught at Towson University, Baltimore, University of Colorado at Denver, University of King’s College, Halifax, Canada and was a Visiting Professor at Université de Paris-Nanterre

Jakub Jinek is Associate Professor at the Catholic Theological Faculty of Charles University, Prague. He is specialized in ancient philosophy and political thought.

Andreas Kinneging is Professor of Legal Philosophy at the University of Leiden, Netherlands. He was awarded the Socrates prize in 2006 for The Geography of Good and Evil: Philosophical Investigations. He is also the author of Aristocracy, Antiquity and History: Classicism in Political Thought.

Till Kinzel is an Associate Professor at Technische Universitat Berlin. He has published books on Allan Bloom (2002), Nicolás Gómez Dávila (5th ed. 2023), Philip Roth (2006) and Michael Oakeshott (2007). He has co-edited volumes on imaginary dialogues in English and American Literature and Philosophy (2012, 2014) and audionarratology (2016), as well as books on Edward Gibbon in Germany (2015) and a number of important enlightenment thinkers in Germany. Most recently, he has published Johann Georg Hamann. Zu Leben und Werk (2019, 2nd enlarged edition 2025), a German translation of Sir Walter Scotts essay on E. T. A Hoffmann (2022) as well as an essay on Voltaire and Brunswick (2023). He has re-edited an 18th century translation of Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield (2023); a co-edited volume on the 18th century poet and essayist Johann Anton Leisewitz appeared in 2025.

Ryszard Legutko is a Polish scientist and politician, professor of philosophy, publicist, author of over twenty books on socio-political topics, translator and commentator of Plato’s works. He specializes in political and social philosophy, ancient philosophy and the history of philosophy. He has formerly served as senator, deputy speaker of the Senate, secretary of state in the chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland, minister of education, and a member of the European Parliament.

Franciszek Longchamps de Bérier is a Catholic priest, a Professor of Legal Sciences head of the Department of Roman Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University. He also teaches at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw.  Father Longchamps de Bérier is also the editor-in-chief of  "Forum Prawniczy." 

Pierre Manent is a retired political scientist and academic. From 1992 until his retirement in 2014, Manent was Directeur d’études in the Centre d’études sociologiques et politiques Raymond Aron, a multidisciplinary center for political research at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociale. Author of more than ten books and dozens of articles, Manent is an active writer, lecturer, and commentator on political philosophy and the European political scene.

Alberto Mingardi is Full Professor in History of Political Thought at IULM University of Milan. He is also Director General of Istituto Bruno Leoni, Italy’s free-market think tank which he helped to establish in 2004 and an Adjunct Scholar with the Cato Institute, in Washington DC.  His main academic interest is in 19th century classical liberalism. He published monographs of Friedrich A. von Hayek (2020), Herbert Spencer (2011) and Thomas Hodgskin (2016 and 2020) as well as several books.

Svetozar Minkov is Professor at Roosevelt University Chicago where he has taught Introduction to Philosophy, Ethics, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Technology, Philosophy of Nature, and Philosophy of Law. He has also taught at Kenyon College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Chicago. Professor Minkov has written most recently on Plato's Laws, Strauss's Thoughts on Machiavelli, and Bacon's On the Wisdom of the Ancients.

Attila Károly Molnár is a historian of ideas and director of the Thomas Molnar Institute for Advanced Studies at the Ludovika University, Budapest. He has conducted research into the history of political and social thinking with a special focus on religion, and has published several books, including A protestáns etika Magyarországon, 1994, 2021 (The Protestant Ethic in Hungary (1994, 2021); Feljegyzések a kaotikus fegyházból, 1999 (Notes from the Chaotic Prison); Edmund Burke (2000); A szabadságolt lelkiismeret I–II, 2014, 2016 (Conscience on Leave I–II, 2014, 2016); and A tanácskozó demokrácia és a megváltó csevegés, 2014 (The Deliberative Democracy and the Redeeming Chatting).

Miguel Morgado is a professor at the Institute for Political Studies of the Catholic University, Lisbon. He was the senior political advisor to the Portuguese Prime Minister between 2011 and 2015. Between 2015 and 2019 he was a member of the Portuguese Parliament. He is the author of several books as well as the translator of the Portuguese editions of several classics in political philosophy authored by Montesquieu, Francis Bacon, John Locke, and Leo Strauss.

Agnieszka Nogal is a Polish Philosopher, Political Scientist, Doctor of Humanities in the discipline of Political Science. Since 1999, she has been working at the Department of Political Philosophy of the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw, which she is now leading. She co-founded and is part of the editorial staff of Civitas magazine. In her scientific work, she deals with the philosophy of politics. Her work focuses on the debate between well-known philosophers Jürgen Habermas and Joseph Weiler and on civic friendship.

James Orr is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the Faculty of Divinity of the University of Cambridge.  He is Chair of the Edmund Burke Foundation UK, the vehicle that convenes the National Conservatism movement in the United Kingdom (“NatConUK”). He is a Trustee of St Paul’s Theological Centre, an Associate Fellow of ResPublica, and a member of the Advisory Councils of the New Social Covenant Unit, the Free Speech Union, the Roger Scruton Legacy Foundation, History Reclaimed, and Briefings for Britain.

Paul Rahe is a professor of History, Charles O. Lee and Louise K. Lee Chair in the Western Heritage, and a Member of Graduate Faculty at Hillsdale College . Professor Rahe’s entire scholarly career has been focused on studying the origins and evolution of self-government within the West. He also taught at Cornell University, Franklin and Marshall College, and the University of Tulsa.

James R. Stoner, Jr. is the Hermann Moyse, Jr. Professor and Director of the Eric Voegelin Institute in the Department of Political Science at Louisiana State University. He specializes in political theory, English common law, and American constitutionalism. He is the author of Common-Law Liberty: Rethinking American Constitutionalism (Kansas, 2003) and Common Law and Liberal Theory: Coke, Hobbes, and the Origins of American Constitutionalism (Kansas, 1992). Dr. Stoner has taught at LSU since 1988, chaired the Department of Political Science from 2007 to 2013, and served as Acting Dean of the Honors College in fall 2010.

David Wootton is Anniversary Professor of History at the University of York. He works on the intellectual and cultural history of the English speaking countries, Italy, and France, 1500 to 1800. He is currently writing a book on Voltaire.  His most recent book is Power, Pleasure, and Profit published by Harvard University Press. He has given the Carlyle and Besterman Lectures at Oxford, the Raleigh Lecture at the British Academy and the Benedict Lectures at Boston.