The Review of Politics

08/31/2026

Anthony Peacock's Review of Harvey Flaumenhaft: The Framework of the Federalist: Visualizing the Structure of the Argumentation. (South Bend, IN: St Augustine’s Press, 2025. Pp. 66.)

https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034670526101077
https://artsci.usu.edu/social-sciences/political-science/directory/faculty-staff/peacock-anthony

08/28/2026

Ned O'Gorman's Review of Tom Arnold-Forster, Walter Lippmann: An Intellectual Biography. (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2025. Pp. ix, 353.)

https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034670526101107
https://communication.illinois.edu/directory/profile/nogorman

08/26/2026

Samuel Moyn's Review of George Crowder: Isaiah Berlin in the Twenty-First Century: Liberal Pluralism for Troubled Times. (New York: Routledge, 2025. Pp. x, 227.)

https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034670526101090
https://history.yale.edu/people/samuel-moyn

08/24/2026

A.P. Martinich's Review of Paul DeHart: The Social Contract in the Ruins: Natural Law and Government by Consent. (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2025. Pp. xiv, 462.)

Paul DeHart: The Social Contract in the Ruins: Natural Law and Government by Consent. (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2025. Pp. xiv, 462.)

08/21/2026

The editors of THE REVIEW OF POLITICS sincerely thank the following individuals for their expert assistance in evaluating manuscripts for publication. They have freely served not only the journal, but also the authors and the academy more generally, without recognition or recompense.

We also appreciate those who, when unable to review a manuscript themselves, thoughtfully recommended alternative experts.

Lastly, we extend special thanks to our editorial board members, who consistently dedicate their time and expertise to reviewing submissions for the journal.

https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034670526101119

Eckhart Arnold, Jonathan Ashbach, Carol Atack, Robert Ballingall, Ryan Balot, Joshua Bandoch, Aiden Beatty, Ludvig Beckman, John Bellamy Foster, Sandrine Berges, John Berkman, Jeffrey Bernstein, Eugenio Biagini, Richard Boyd, Arthur Bradley, Samuel Brody, Petra Brown, Vittorio Bufacchi, Simon Burton, Antonio Calcagno, Andre Campos, Paul Carrese, Flora Champy, Paul Cheney, Joshua Cherniss, Chapin Cimino, Greg Conti, Virginia Cox, Nathan Crick, William Desmond, David Dyzenhaus, Dan Edelstein, Gianna Englert, Michael Federici, Mario Feit, Magnus Ferguson. Michaele Ferguson, Sandra Field, Paul Franco, Elizabeth Frazer, Patrick Frierson, Salih Emre Gercek, Samuel Goldman. Rob Goodman, John Grey, Jeffrey Grynaviski, Sandra Gustafson, Andrew Hadfield, Edward Hall, Hasan Hameed, William Hamlin, Marc Hanvelt, Rafeeq Hasan, Spencer Hawkins, Thomas Heilke, Ariel Helfer, Sara Henary, Jennifer Herdt, Montserrat Herrero, Benjamin Hill, Humeira Iqtidar, David Johnson, Russell Johnson, Alan Kahan, Taran Kang, Rebecca Kingston, Sharon Krause, Sara Lagi, Robert Lamb, Theresa Lee, David Levy, Kolja Lindner, Christophe Litwin, Thornton Lockwood, John Lombardini, Diego Lucci, Maxwell Lykins, Eric MacGilvray, Eric Mack, Stig Madsen, Jonathan Marko, Leslie Marsh, Inder Marwah, Afshin Matin-Asgari, Erik Matson, Helen McCabe, John McCormick, Daniel McLoughlin, Susan McWilliams, Andreea Mihali, Dale Miller, David Mirhady, Neville Morley, Michael Morrell, Shireen Morris, Hina Nazar, Jason Neidleman, Jeffrey Nicholas, Ned O’Gorman, Alexandra Oprea, Patrick Overeem, Judd Owen, William Parsons, Menaka Philips, James Pontuso, Joseph Postell, Andrea Radasanu, Naomi Reshotko, Mattia Riccardi, Nathan Rockwood, Tim Rood, Michael Rosen, George Rudebusch, Pauline Sabrier, Paul Sagar, Paula Satne, Eric Schliesser, Michelle Schwarze, John T. Scott, Susan Shell, Anita Sherman, Pete Smith, Jacob Snyder, Marlene Sokolon, Jeff Spinner-Halev, Iain Stewart, Chinatsu Takeda, Alexander Thom, Simon Townsend, Eno Trimcev, Giulia Valpione, Christina Wald, Lee Ward, Eugene Webb, Jessica Whyte, Kieran Williams, Brianne Wolf, John Zaller, Elena Ziliotti, Michael Zuckert

08/21/2026

Michelle Chun: The Pragmatic Locke: On the “Two Lockes” Problem and Waldron’s Christian Egalitarianism

https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034670526100941

http://www.michellechun.com/

08/19/2026

Jonathan Den Hartog's Review of Steven D. Smith: The Godless Constitution and the Providential Republic. (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2025. Pp. xiv, 223.)

https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034670526101053

https://www.samford.edu/arts-and-sciences/directory/Den-Hartog-Jonathan

08/18/2026

The editorial team at ROP is excited to welcome Rachel Lentz as one of our 2026/27 editorial interns.

Rachel is a fourth year PhD candidate at Notre Dame. Her research interests include modern political thought, democratic theory, political economy, as well as issues surrounding intergenerational justice and climate change ethics.

Before coming to Notre Dame, Rachel received a master’s degree in political science at Iowa State University, writing her thesis on the unique challenge economic inequality poses to the role of sympathy in Adam Smith's sentimentalist moral theory. This project culminated in a presentation at the Adam Smith Tercentenary Week hosted by the University of Glasgow in June 2023. Incorporating archival research conducted at the Bodleian Libraries’ Abinger Collection, she recently published an article on Mary Wollstonecraft’s engagement with Smith’s moral theory and the potential that her integrated approach to national education has for combatting problems arising from inequality.

For her dissertation, she is writing on the figure of the lawgiver in 18th-century political thought. She is particularly interested in its relationship to popular sovereignty in Rousseau's The Social Contract, and its relevance for contemporary democratic theory.

She has presented her work at conferences hosted by the University of Glasgow and the University of Oxford, numerous graduate political theory conferences, as well as at APSA. Her research has been published in The Review of Politics and History of European Ideas and has been funded by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies.

Rachel was awarded a Nanovic Institute Fellowship for the 2025–2026 and 2026–2027 years and is also currently a Deans' Fellow at Notre Dame. She has worked as an editorial assistant for an NEH-awarded scholarly edition of Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindications.

08/17/2026

The editorial team at ROP is excited to welcome Elayne Allen Schwalbach as one of our 2026/27 Editorial Interns.

Elayne is a fourth year doctoral student in political theory and constitutional studies. Her dissertation explores the political authority of customs and their relationship to natural law, with a particular focus on Thomas Aquinas’ thought. Elayne is also interested in legal philosophy, Catholic political thought, and feminist theories.

In Spring 2026, she won the Notre Dame Political Science Excellence in Teaching Award for her work with undergraduate students.

She earned her BA from Baylor University in 2017, where she studied political philosophy and great texts.

08/14/2026

Matheson Stuart Russell and David Kelley: Democracy and Rule over Others: The Boundary Problem and the Limits of Collective Self-Rule 🔓 Open Access

https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034670526100953

https://profiles.auckland.ac.nz/m-russell
https://profiles.auckland.ac.nz/david-kelley