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Luke C. Sheahan

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Biography

Luke C. Sheahan is associate professor of political science at Duquesne University, a senior affiliate in the Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society (PRRUCS) at the University of Pennsylvania, contributing editor at Law and Liberty, and editor of The University Bookman. He is author of Why Associations Matter: The Case for First Amendment Pluralism (2020) and editor of several books.  

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The Constitution of Academic Freedom

Higher Education
April 16, 2026
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Civitas Outlook
The Declaration Is a Metaphysical and Political Triumph

It is the nature of genuinely lasting great texts that we observe new things in them that fit our moment.

Brian Smith

Pursuit of Happiness

June 17, 2026

Civitas Outlook
Confronting the New Antisemitism

"The postwar effort 'to rebrand Judaism as a religion' has made it impossible for American Jews to understand what they are facing today, because what we are facing today is an attack on the idea of Jewish peoplehood.”

Melissa Langsam Braunstein

Politics

June 17, 2026

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