Diana Schaub

Diana Schaub is an emeritus Professor of Political Science at Loyola University Maryland and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. A past member of the Hoover Institution’s Task Force on the Virtues of a Free Society, she also served as the Garwood Teaching Fellow at Princeton University in 2011-12 and Visiting Professor of Political Theory in the Government Department at Harvard University in 2018 and 2020. From 2004 to 2009, she was a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics. She was the recipient of the Richard M. Weaver Prize for Scholarly Letters in 2001 and is the author of Erotic Liberalism: Women and Revolution in Montesquieu’s “Persian Letters” and His Greatest Speeches: How Lincoln Moved the Nation along with numerous book chapters and scholarly articles in the fields of political philosophy and American political thought. She is a coeditor (with Amy and Leon Kass) of What So Proudly We Hail: The American Soul in Story, Speech, and Song. She is a contributing editor of The New Atlantis and a member of the publication committee of National Affairs. Her essays and reviews have appeared in a variety of publications, among them the Claremont Review of Books, City Journal, The New Criterion, and Commentary, as well as the much-missed Weekly Standard and Public Interest. She has an AB from Kenyon College and an MA and PhD from The University of Chicago.