Laurie Johnson

Laurie Johnson
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Laurie Johnson is Professor of Political Science at Kansas State University. Her work has involved developing a thorough understanding and critique of classical liberal theory, and includes works on Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and Tocqueville. Her most recent book, Ideological Possession and the Rise of the New Right: The Political Thought of Carl Jung, was published in 2019 by Routledge. She is currently working on a new book, Can Anything Fix This? Towards Repairing Our Rural/Urban Divide, under contract with Wipf & Stock. She is a co-founder of The Maurin Academy and provides political philosophy and theology content on her Political Philosophy YouTube channel, currently with 20,000+ subscribers, and its associated podcast.

Recent Essays

A Twenty-First Century Agronomic University: The Maurin Academy

We use the experience of the JPII farm not only to learn and improve over time but to inform our audience of the realities and pitfalls of attempting this way of life. We have learned the hard way that small steps and incremental improvements have to be treated like great victories and that to rely on Christian hope is the essence of wisdom.