Cancellation is an attempt to overturn our society and create another through the ceremonial removal of dissenters.
Luke C. Sheahan
The core value of community animates the best thinkers on both the left and the right.
Robert Nisbet saw how politics has eclipsed all other forms of community. It has also failed to live up to its lofty promises.
Why are our universities confused about their mission?
In Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta, the Supreme Court misses an opportunity.
The progressive push for groups to be engaged in political activism makes them little more than proxies for their members’ political associations.
We have to balance between the interests of individuals, the state, and associations.
Revolutionary community takes on properties of war, politics, and religion with the goal of total transformation of society.
Luke C. Sheahan is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Duquesne University, a Senior Affiliate in the Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society (PRRUCS) at the University of Pennsylvania, Editor of The University Bookman, and Visiting Fellow in the Program on Pluralism and Civil Exchange at the Mercatus Center. He is author of Why Associations Matter: The Case for First Amendment Pluralism (2020) and editor of International Comparative Approaches to Free Speech and Open Inquiry (2022).