Phillip Muñoz

Tocqueville Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame. Visiting Distinguished Professor, School of Civic Leadership at UT-Austin.

[Phillip Muñoz @VPhillipMunoz]

My new @UChicagoPress book, "Religious Liberty and the American Founding," comes out today. https://t.co/TjQI4MGy7G

Five of its more interesting and controversial arguments. (thread)

[Phillip Muñoz @VPhillipMunoz]

Hosting this tomorrow!
@NotreDame @NDConStudies

[Phillip Muñoz @VPhillipMunoz]

Thank you @cartersnead

[Carter Snead @cartersnead]

Congrats to @VPhillipMunoz! @NotreDame is lucky to have him!!

[Andrew T. Walker @AndrewTWalker]

A truly outstanding essay that I have saved and will be consulting regularly. It rejects the postliberal assumption that the Founders birthed the mistake of Lockean libertarianism while also rejecting the idea of a lowest common denominator for social cohesion.

[Matthew J. Peterson @docMJP]

More people should be engaging with the argument of this essay rather than a lot of the shallow banter I see on here supposedly about the common good.

[Phillip Muñoz @VPhillipMunoz]

@RyanTAnd My contribution:
https://t.co/bKBeaacVIQ

[Phillip Muñoz @VPhillipMunoz]

@marklevinshow A new essay on this exact theme:

https://t.co/bKBeaacVIQ

[ND Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Govt. @NDConStudies]

What did the American Founders actually mean by "liberty?"

In a new essay for @firstthingsmag, @VPhillipMunoz defends the American Founding against modern liberal and postliberal critics.

Read the full piece here: https://t.co/p0dfjiOXqg

[Phillip Muñoz @VPhillipMunoz]

Rather than jettisoning American principles, we need to recover their genius."

[Phillip Muñoz @VPhillipMunoz]

I have an article in the latest First Things, "The Founders and the Common Good."
https://t.co/bKBeaacVIQ
@firstthingsmag

[Phillip Muñoz @VPhillipMunoz]

Liberalism sharply departs from the Founders’ natural rights republicanism, which offers a dignified understanding of the human person and a conception of human excellence that draws on both the Greek and biblical traditions.

[Civitas Institute @CivitasInst]

"Postliberalism’s intellectual mistake has been to presume that modern liberalism’s conception of the person is the inevitable evolutionary outcome of the American political and constitutional ­tradition." | @VPhillipMunoz for @firstthingsmag

Read 'The Founders and the Common Good' here: https://t.co/fBlR0ch6WR

[Philip Bunn @PhilipDBunn]

I have a year off teaching Con Law, which gives me a year to rework my syllabi around these bad boys. Looking forward to it @VPhillipMunoz!

[Matt Franck @MatthewJFranck]

@VPhillipMunoz A brilliant proposal, Phillip. Here’s a gift link for more people to read this solution to the grade inflation problem: https://t.co/ssl7vbSQVH

[Darel E. Paul @darelmass]

@VPhillipMunoz This is a great op-ed, Phil. We at Williams are taking up grade inflation next year, and I've long been a supporter of reporting standardized grades and GPA. Wish us luck!

[Phillip Muñoz @VPhillipMunoz]

Harvard swings at grade inflation and misses https://t.co/tUnzOaelib

[Matt Franck @MatthewJFranck]

My latest Bookshelf @PublicDiscourse, longer than usual, based on a lecture I gave two evenings ago: Why Catholics Should Celebrate America’s 250th Birthday
https://t.co/6dcjBxe1HW

[Phillip Muñoz @VPhillipMunoz]

@PaulRDeHart Where can we find Bishop Barron’s talk?

[Phillip Muñoz @VPhillipMunoz]

@kaler_tim Not yet. But if you work something up, please share it with me.

[Phillip Muñoz @VPhillipMunoz]

Harvard, apparently, is about to adopt a new policy to combat grade inflation. I devised my own anti–grade inflation policy 25 years ago. I’ve shared it with provosts and deans, to no avail. Here it is:
The Muñoz Plan Against Grade Inflation
The plan has three key components:

[Phillip Muñoz @VPhillipMunoz]

@SwattyKay @RonColeman Yes. Negative numbers are subtracted from GDP. The sum of GDP for all undergraduates would be 0.