James M. Patterson is Associate Professor in the Politics Department at Ave Maria University. He is also a Contributing Editor at Law & Liberty, Research Fellow at the Center for Religion, Democracy, and Culture and president of the Ciceronian Society, an ecumenical fellowship of Christian scholars dedicated to the study of tradition, place, and "things divine." His academic writing has appeared in American Political Thought, the Journal of Church and State, Perspectives on Political Science, and the Political Science Reviewer. His more popular writing has appeared in National Affairs, First Things, Public Discourse, Law & Liberty, and many other outlets. In 2019, he published his first book, Religion in the Public Square: Sheen, King, Falwell, with the University of Pennsylvania Press, and his second book, Why Postliberalism Failed, he co-wrote with Thomas Howes for the Acton Institute. For his third book, he is working on the development of American Catholic republicanism from the Founding to the present.
