Publications by Corbin and Parks

Books

• Aristotle’s Polictics Readers Guide. Author: C. David Corbin
• The Rise and Decline of Imperial Democracies. Author: C. David Corbin
• Keeping our Republic: Principles for a Political Reformation, Resource Publications, 2011. Explanation and application of six key principles of American republicanism: equality, responsibility, honor, justice, lawfulness, and prudence. Co-authored with C. David Corbin.
• Publius’s Republic. Scholarly study of the republican principles of The Federalist. In progress. Author: Matthew Parks
  

Articles, Chapters, Reviews, and Papers

• “The Big Three,” review of Heirs of the Founders by H.W. Brand, Claremont Review of Books, June 2019.
• “Can Human Beings have Intrinsic Dignity or Equality without God?,” chapter in John Rawls and Christian
• Social Engagement: Justice as Unfairness, ed. Anthony B. Bradley and Greg Forster, Lexington Books, 2014.
• “Union and Unity: Publius on the Preconditions for Political Partnership.” Paper prepared for the annual
• meeting of the New York Political Science Association, April 2014 (read by colleague due to family illness).
• “The Republic of Republics,” The City, Fall 2013. Co-authored with C. David Corbin.
• “Faction, Human Nature, and the Limits of the Science of Politics.” Paper presented at the annual
• meeting of the Northeast Political Science Association, November 2009.
• “Finding Common Ground: Natural Revelation in the Post-Christian Public Square.” Paper presented at
• the National Faculty Leadership Conference, June 2008.
• Essays and Op-Eds
• “Thirty-Four Days is Plenty of Time to Confirm Amy Coney Barrett,” TheFederalist.com, 9/30/20
• “Rubio’s Recalcitrance Aside, Trump’s Not Inevitable Even After Tuesday,” TheFederalist.com, 3/14/16.
• “A Favored Few Booted and Spurred,” Library of Law and Liberty online, 12/21/15.
• “Thanksgiving with Tocqueville,” Library of Law and Liberty online, 11/23/15.
• “The Road to Prosperity and the Plans of Politicians,” Library of Law and Liberty online, 10/28/15.
• “The Capacity for Self-Government,” Library of Law and Liberty online, 10/23/15.
• “The Federalist Today,” May, 2013-March, 2015. Eighty-four approximately 1200-word essays, originally
• published at TheBlaze.com (1-13) and TheFederalist.com (14-84) connecting the principles of The Federalist to
• contemporary politics. Project profiled in “What Would Publius Do?” by The American Spectator (spectator.org),
• 6/21/13. Essays were republished online in many places, including Human Events, The Imaginative Conservative,
• and Accuracy in Academia, and cited for their scholarly authority (see “Appearances and Citations” below).

Published as The Republic of Republics: The Compete Federalist Today

1: “‘Reflection and Choice’ or ‘Accident and Force,’” TheBlaze.com, 5/14/13.

2: “What’s a ‘Trigger Word’ Citizen to Do?” TheBlaze.com, 5/29/13.

3: “The Peace of a ‘Wise and Free People’,” TheBlaze.com, 6/7/13.

4: “Statues and Statecraft,” TheBlaze.com, 6/18/13.

5: “Union…What is it Good for?” TheBlaze.com, 7/3/13.

6: “Ye Shall Know Them by Their Fruits,” TheBlaze.com, 7/16/13.

7: “All We are Saying is Give Peace a Chance,” TheBlaze.com, 7/25/13.

8: “Obamacare and Bureaucratic (Standing) Armies,” TheBlaze.com, 8/6/13.

9: “The Government Super-Faction,” TheBlaze.com, 8/15/13.

10: “The Faction-Builder-in-Chief,” TheBlaze.com, 9/7/13.

11: “In Honor of Constitution Day: The Virtue of the Constitution,” TheBlaze.com, 9/17/13.

12: “Once Upon a Time in America…,” TheBlaze.com, 9/27/13.

13: “Progressivism and Limited Government,” TheBlaze.com, 10/8/13.

14: “Madisonian Compromise Amid Uncompromising Progressivism,” TheFederalist.com, 10/26/13.

15: “Detroit Broke City,” TheFederalist.com, 11/2/13.

16: “The Real Elephant in the Room,” The Federalist.com, 11/9/13.

17: “The Fix is in the Fixing,” TheFederalist.com, 11/17/13.

18: “Is Progressivism Too Big to Fail?” TheFederalist.com, 11/24/13.

19: “Is There an Obama Doctrine?” TheFederalist.com, 11/30/13.

20: “The Importance of Self-Government,” TheFederalist.com, 12/8/13.

21: “You Can Keep Your Republic, If You Like It,” TheFederalist.com, 12/15/13.

22: “No Man for Himself, and the Devil Take Most,” TheFederalist.com, 12/21/13.

23: “Should Americans Read Other Americans’ Mail?” TheFederalist.com, 12/29/13.

24: “Obamacare’s Path and the Rule of Law,” TheFederalist.com, 1/6/14.

25: “The Fed and the Cult of Expert Management,” TheFederalist.com, 1/12/14.

26: “Recovering the Habits of Self-Government,” TheFederalist.com, 1/20/14.

27: “The State of the Modern State of the Union Address,” TheFederalist.com, 1/27/14.

28: “A (Lame) Duck Dynasty?” TheFederalist.com, 2/2/14.

29: “Here’s What Money Can Buy American Society,” TheFederalist.com, 2/9/14.

30: “The Politics of Science and the Science of Politics,” The Federalist.com, 2/17/14.

31: “Checks, Balances, and Checkbooks,” TheFederalist.com, 2/24/14.

32: “A Long Walk (Back) to Freedom,” TheFederalist.com, 3/2/14.

33: “Limited Government in an Age of Militant Progressivism,” TheFederalist.com, 3/9/14.

34: “The Twin Evils of Government Oppression and Inequality,” TheFederalist.com, 3/17/14.

35: “Publius and the Progressives,” TheFederalist.com, 3/24/14.

36: “What Happens When the Facts Don’t Fit the Progressive Script?” TheFederalist.com, 3/30/14.

37: “How to Understand True and Faux Liberalism,” TheFederalist.com, 4/7/14.

38: “New York, New York: What a Progressive City Looks Like,” TheFederalist.com, 4/13/14.

39: “How Not to Fix the Second Amendment,” TheFederalist.com, 4/20/14.

40: “In Washington, It’s Politics ‘By Any Means Necessary’,” TheFederalist.com, 4/27/14.

41: “Pragmatism, Planet DC, and Planet Earth,” TheFederalist.com, 5/5/14.

42: “James Madison on the Use and Abuse of Power,” TheFederalist.com, 5/11/14.

43: “The Jobber Barons,” TheFederalist.com, 5/18/14.

44: “Who Killed Federalism?” TheFederalist.com, 5/26/14.

45: “The Mississippi King,” TheFederalist.com, 6/1/14.

46: “The Hegemonic Presidency,” TheFederalist.com, 6/8/14.

47: “Red State Progressive Blues,” TheFederalist.com, 6/16/14.

48: “When Hell Appears to be Other Americans,” TheFederalist.com, 6/22/14.

49: “Ambition Made of Sterner Stuff,” TheFederalist.com, 6/30/14.

50: “Is There Enough Courageous Conservatism,” TheFederalist.com, 7/7/14.

51: “Immigration, Good Laws, and Liberty,” TheFederalist.com, 7/14/14.

52: “What Should a ‘Do Something’ Congress Do?” TheFederalist.com, 7/21/14.

53: “Goldwater 2.0?” TheFederalist.com, 7/28/14.

54: “Memo to House Republicans Readying to Sue President Obama: Read The Federalist,” TheFederalist.com, 8/4/14.

55: “What the Founders Tell Us about the GOP’s Ruling Class,” TheFederalist.com, 8/11/14.

56: “The Rise of Progressive Oligarchy,” TheFederalist.com, 8/18/14.

57: “Hyper-Democracy and Progressive Oligarchy,” TheFederalist.com, 8/25/14.

58: “Why Unpopular Incumbents Win,” TheFederalist.com, 9/2/14.

59: “A Swift Solution to Washington Gridlock: Abolish the Senate,” TheFederalist.com, 9/8/14.

60: “How Not to Lead the U.S. in World Affairs,” TheFederalist.com, 9/15/14.

61: “Stop-Gap Statesmanship,” TheFederalist.com, 9/22/14.

62: “Five Questions for Your Senate Candidates,” TheFederalist.com, 9/29/14.

63: “The Civil Discourse ‘Two-Step’,” TheFederalist.com, 10/6/14.

64: “Choosing a republican President,” TheFederalist.com, 10/13/14.

65: “How We Can Choose a Constitutional President in a Celebrity Age,” TheFederalist.com, 10/20/14.

66: “Choosing an Energetic President,” TheFederalist.com, 10/27/14.

67: “Choosing a Responsible President,” TheFederalist.com, 11/3/14.

68: “Reading the Midterm Tea Leaves,” TheFederalist.com, 11/10/14.

69: “Want to Stop Executive Amnesty? Repeal the Twenty-Second Amendment,”

TheFederalist.com, 11/17/14.

70: “It’s Time to Exercise the Legislative ‘Veto’,” TheFederalist.com, 11/24/14.

71: “Is it Stagecraft or Statecraft?” TheFederalist.com, 12/1/14.

72: “Advice to Post-Obamacare Senators: Cancel the Soap Opera,” TheFederalist.com, 12/8/14.

73: “How a Conservative Insurgent Can Win the 2016 GOP Presidential Nomination,” TheFederalist.com, 12/15/14.

74: “A Federalist Today Presidential Straw Poll,” TheFederalist.com, 12/22/14.

75: “A 2015 New Year’s Presidential Resolution,” TheFederalist.com, 12/29/14.

76: “When Constitutionalism is a Dangerous Thing,” TheFederalist.com, 1/5/15.

77: “Progressivism or Judicial Review: Choose One,” TheFederalist.com, 1/12/15.

78: “Roe v. Wade: an Impeachable Offense?” TheFederalist.com, 1/19/15.

79: “Constitutional Rights and Wrongs,” TheFederalist.com, 1/26/15.

80: “Court and Constitution: The Argument Against Judicial Supremacy,” TheFederalist.com, 2/2/15.

81: “Liberty and the Bill of Rights,” TheFederalist.com, 2/9/15.

82: “Comical Politics in an Anything But Comical Age,” TheFederalist.com, 2/16/15.

83: “Politics Between ‘Is’ and ‘Ought’,” TheFederalist.com, 2/23/15.

84: “The Federalist and ‘The Promise of American Life’,” TheFederalist.com, 3/2/15.

Other Articles

• “President of the Economy,” First Things ‘On the Square’ online, 11/28/12.
• “Backward is the Real Way Forward for Obama Democrats,” Townhall.com, 9/6/12.
• “Yes, We Can,” The Washington Times, 2/4/12.
• “The Primary Problem,” worldmag.com, 1/24/12.
• “What $14.4 Trillion and Growing Means on Planet Earth,” worldmag.com, 7/27/11.
• “Regime Change You Can Believe In,” The Washington Times, 5/6/11.
• “The Heart of Liberty,” worldmag.com, 5/5/11.
• “Revitalizing ‘Golden Rule’ Politics,” worldmag.com, 4/15/11.
• “War and Peace and the American Republic,” worldmag.com, 3/29/11.
• “State of the Union? Out of Touch with the Founders,” The Washington Times, 1/25/11.
• “Obama Blames Fear Factor,” The Washington Times, 11/2/10. Also published as “How ‘bout Dem
• Elections?,” First Things ‘First Thoughts’ online, 11/1/10.
• “Classless Appeal to Class Warfare,” The Washington Times, 10/1/10.
• “The ‘Reform’ Mantra and Movement – a Problem,” First Things ‘First Thoughts’ online 9/20/10.
• “The Constitution Pledge,” First Things ‘First Thoughts’ online 9/8/10.