June 3–4, 2022

Steubenville, OH 43952

Is a country founded on the premises of liberalism doomed to become a tyranny? Was the United States so founded? These questions are urgent, and the answers are up for debate at New Polity’s second annual conference.

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Chad Pecknold is a Professor of Historical & Systematic Theology in the School of Theology at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. He has authored or edited five books, each relating the thought of St. Augustine to modern philosophical and theological reasoning, including, Transforming Postliberal Theology (2005), The Promise of Scriptural Reasoning (2006), Time, Liturgy, and the Politics of Redemption (2008), Christianity and Politics (2010) and the T&T Clark Companion to Augustine and Modern Theology (2014).

He teaches in the areas of fundamental theology, Christian anthropology, and political theology. He writes weekly columns as the U.S. Contributing Editor to The Catholic Herald, one of the oldest Catholic magazines in the world, and also writes regularly for other publications, such as First Things, Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, and National Review. Pecknold also serves on the Editorial Board of The Catholic University of America Press, and also co-edits with Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P., their celebrated Sacra Doctrina series. He serves as an Associate Editor for the English Edition of the international Thomistic journal of theology, Nova et Vetera. He serves as Chairman of the Academy of Catholic Theology, and has the honor of serving as a Fellow of the Institute for Human Ecology at Catholic University.

D.C. Schindler, a Professor of Metaphysics and Anthropology at the John Paul II Institute in Washington DC, studied the Great Books at Notre Dame and theology at the JPII Institute, and earned a PhD in philosophy at the Catholic University of America. He is the author of many books, including Freedom from Reality: The Diabolical Character of Modern Liberty (Notre Dame, 2017) and The Politics of the Real: The Church between Liberalism and Integralism (New Polity, 2021), a translator of German and French, and a collaborating editor of Communio: International Catholic Review. Professor Schindler lives in Hyattsville, Maryland, with his wife and three children.

Andrew Willard Jones holds a PhD in Medieval History from Saint Louis University with a focus on the Church of the High Middle Ages. Jones’s work is primarily concerned with historical political theology and with the reconciliation of the post-modern with the pre-modern. Methodologically, his work treats history as a theological discipline and not as a secular archaeology. Jones is the author of Before Church and State: A Study of Social Order in St. Louis IX’s Sacramental Kingdom and the one-volume history of the Catholic Church The Two Cities: A History of Christian Politics. He is also working on an overview of the Church's social teaching.

Patrick Lee holds the John N. and Jamie D. McAleer Chair of Bioethics, and is the Director of the Center for Bioethics, at Franciscan University of Steubenville. He is the author of three books (Body-Self Dualism in Contemporary Ethics and Politics, with Robert P. George, 2008) Abortion and Unborn Human Life, 2010), Conjugal Union: What Marriage Is and Why It Matters, with Robert P. George, 2014), and of numerous scholarly and popular articles.

Will Hoyt operates an inn for oil and gas workers in eastern Ohio. His essays appear in University Bookman and New Oxford Review, as well as Front Porch Republic. He is also the author of The Seven Ranges: Ground Zero for the Staging of America.

Peter Simpson is a Full Professor for the Philosophy Department. Dr. Simpson is also a Professor of Philosophy and Classics at the CUNY Graduate Center. A prize scholar from the University of Oxford, Simpson is the author of Political Illiberalism.

Marc Barnes holds a PhD in Theology from St. Mary's University Twickenham. He is a father of two, the editor of New Polity magazine, and the president of The Harmonium Project, a nonprofit dedicated to urban revitalization and transformation in Steubenville, Ohio.

Jacob Imam is the Executive Director of New Polity. He is a prize scholar and Marshall Scholar from the University of Oxford working on a Theology of Money. He lives in Steubenville with his wife, Alice, and sons, Blaise and Leo. And a guy named Will.