Dr. Laurence Reardon

• “The Parental State: Individualism, Collectivism and Authority in Rousseau” – 37th Annual Meeting of Northeastern Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA,
  November 17, 2005
• “Rousseau’s Theory of the Family” – Politics and Lunch Series,
  The Catholic University of America, Department of Politics, March 30, 2005
  (Panelist) Liberty Fund Conference “Liberty and Culture in Irving Babbitt”, Indianapolis, IN, February 21-24, 2008
• “The Intellectual Origins of the Parental State” at Academy of Philosophy and Letters Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD May 31, 2009
• “Taxes and the Common Good” as part of panel discussion on Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, for Constitution Day, Belmont Abbey College, September 17, 2010
• “The Fight against Illness and the Rights of the Unborn: Some Background” at Crusaders for Life Panel Discussion, Belmont Abbey College, February 7, 2012
• “Collision Course? The Traditional Family and the 21st –Century State” Society of Catholic Social Scientists Annual Conference, Uniondale, Long Island, NY, October 27, 2012
• “The Little Platoons vs. The State: Edmund Burke and the Catholic Response to Mass Society”
  Society of Catholic Social Scientists Annual Conference, Franciscan University, Steubenville, OH, October 25, 2013
• “New Christendom or New Secularization? : Jacques Maritain’s Vision of Western Democracy Revisited”, Society of Catholic Social Scientists Annual Conference, Mount St. Mary’s University, Emmitsburg, MD, October 24, 2014
• “The United States of Europe? The Complex Past and Uncertain Future of the European Union,” Belmont Abbey College Faculty Lecture Series, February 25, 2015
  (upcoming) “Beyond Tolerance?: Implications and Lessons of the Irish Same-Sex ‘Marriage’ Referendum,” Society of Catholic Social Scientists Annual Conference, Franciscan University, Steubenville, OH, October 24, 2015

Publications Articles

• “The Ethics of Fetal Tissue Transplantation Research: A Review” The Linacre Quarterly (Journal of the Catholic Medical Association), vol.66, no.3 (August 1999), p.21-34
• “Inequality” in New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-2013: Ethics and Philosophy, Vol. 2. (2013)
• “Tolerance” in New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-2013: Ethics and Philosophy, Vol. 4. (2013)
• Book: (upcoming) The State as Parent: Locke, Rousseau and the Transformation of the Family – University of Scranton Press.