Lectures
Banned Books and Censorship, The American Idea, The Ashbrook Center (March 21, 2023)
Communism and Film, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (August 3, 2022)
Marxist and Communist Ideology: Its History and a Warning for Today With Jonathan Brent, David Satter, and Flagg Taylor, Victims of Communist Memorial Foundation (June 14, 2022 via Zoom)
Václav Havel and the Problem of Dissent, Clemson University (February 2022)
Totalitarianism and the Defense of Personhood, Catholic Medical Association Annual Conference (September 2018)
The Enduring Significance of Charter 77, Embassy of the Czech Republic (February 2017)
Czechoslovakia and Charter 77, Texas Lutheran University (October 2015)
Skidmore College Courses
Core Courses in Political Science
Introduction to Political Philosophy
Classical Political Thought
Upper-Level Courses in Political Philosophy
Liberty, Commerce, and the Moral Life
Capitalism and its Critics
Rousseau’s Political Philosophy
Václav Havel: Playwright, Dissident President
The Politics of Dystopia
First-Year Seminars
The Politics of Eros
Courses in American Political Thought and Public Law
American Political Thought
African-American Political Thought
Constitutional Law
Constitutional Conflicts: Executive Power
Other
Politics and History of the Czech Lands (semester-long course including a 10-day travel seminar in Prague)
Hertog Foundation Courses
Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate
Living with Artificial Intelligence: Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun
Tikvah Fund
Can Liberty and Order Coexist? A Study of Conservative Liberalism
