James R. Stoner, Jr., is the Hermann Moyse Jr. Professor and Director of the Eric Voegelin Institute in the Department of Political Science at Louisiana State University, and he is a Senior Fellow of the Witherspoon Institute. His authored books include Common-Law Liberty: Rethinking American Constitutionalism and Common Law and Liberal Theory: Coke, Hobbes, and the Origins of American Constitutionalism, and he is the co-editor of The Social Costs of Pornography: A Collection of Papers (with Donna M. Hughes), and Rethinking Business Management: Examining the Foundations of Business Education (with Samuel Gregg). He received his Ph.D. in political science at Harvard University.