Ryan Holston

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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.

Recent Essays

Straw Men and the Possibility of Community in Modernity

Ryan Holston - November 14, 2024

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 fractured and deracinated world in which we are living.