"The Rebirth of American Constitutionalism"

On Monday, September 25, my friends at the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University will host an all-day conference devoted to the scholarly legacy of two giants in the study of the American founding who both died 40 years ago. Martin Diamond and Herbert J. Storing, friends who were both students of Leo Strauss, were pioneers in the field of political philosophy, responsible (along with colleagues such as Harry Jaffa, Walter Berns, Ralph Lerner, and Harvey Mansfield) for resurrecting the serious study of American political thought in American political science departments. (I did
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