Ryan R. Holston teaches political theory at Virginia Military Institute where he is Jonathan M. Daniels ’61 Chair. He is the author of Tradition & the Deliberative Turn: a Critique of Contemporary Democratic Theory (SUNY Press, 2023). Despite being dislocated to the beautiful Shenandoah Valley, he is a die-hard Philadelphia sports fan and has brainwashed his children accordingly.
Ryan Holston
Articles by Ryan Holston
Straw Men and the Possibility of Community in Modernity
Between these extremes, however, is free choice within reasonable limits, which I believe makes the value of community and its deliberative fruits still possible, even within the reality of the…