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Brian Danoff is a Professor of Political Science at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. His writings include Why Moralize upon It? Democratic Education through American Literature and Film (Lexington, 2020) and Educating Democracy: Alexis de Tocqueville and Leadership in America (SUNY, 2010).

Shipwrecked

In Thomas Jefferson’s original draft of the Declaration of Independence, the final charge against King George was to be focused on slavery. Jefferson wrote that the King…

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Why Moralize Upon It?

Franklin Delano Roosevelt famously declared that, “the greatest duty of a statesman is to educate.”[1] The central claim of this book is that it is not only…

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