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Steven J. Brust is the Associate Director of the Tocqueville Forum. He holds both a Ph.D. in politics and a M.A. in philosophy. His teaching and research interests include the history of Western political thought, natural law and natural rights, law and morality, and Church and State relations. He also has a strong interest in Catholic Social Teaching, especially as it relates to the present state of the American political order and American culture. Having published a few encyclopedia entries in Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy: An Encyclopedia and a book review in The Catholic Social Science Review, he is currently working on journal articles pertaining to pre-modern natural rights and universal natural moral laws. He is also working on a manuscript titled The Political Thought of Francisco Suarez, which primarily concerns the ideas of the social contract and popular sovereignty, natural rights, and the separation of Church and State, within the context of the emergence of modern liberal democracy. Complementing his academic background is his prior employment experience which includes working as an Administrative Director for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a Business Manager for his local parish, a Project Manager for a real estate development company, and an intern for Crisis Magazine.

Steven J. Brust's CV

 
Tara K. Jackson is the Program Coordinator of the Tocqueville Forum.  She holds her B.A. in Philosophy from Christendom College and hails from Houston, TX.  She has a keen interest in the interaction of law, philosophy, and theology and wrote her thesis on the the underpinnings of international law in Francisco de Vitoria.  While at Christendom, she spearheaded an initiative to host visiting academic lecturers on campus by means of grants from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and the Leadership Institute to enrich the campus discussion of political philosophy.  She also facilitated a weekly book discussion group, which undertook to read classics like The Idea of a University.  She formerly was an intern at the Family Research Council and at the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute. 

 

 

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