Media Mentions

May 09, 2025

Under the second Trump administration, the United States has shown a movement to break the "Liberal International Order" that it built up after World War II. What’s in the background and what’s the world going to be like? Professor Patrick Deneen of the University of Notre Dame, the brain of U.S. Vice President of the United States, said that with the U.S. in mind, “the world will be reorganized by a de facto ‘empire’.”

May 02, 2025

Now, compelling new research from Christina Wolbrecht and David E. Campbell, published in the journal Political Behavior, offers the first longitudinal evidence that this intuition holds true. In what the authors describe as a first-of-its-kind study, they followed over 6,000 adolescents into adulthood and discovered that girls who were exposed to a novel, viable woman candidate—defined as a woman running a competitive campaign for a seat previously held by a man—were significantly more likely to vote as adults. This enduring effect held even after controlling for a wide range of individual and contextual factors known to influence voter turnout.

April 29, 2025

Patrick J. Deneen, professore di Scienze politiche all’università cattolica di Notre Dame, è riconosciuto sia dagli ammiratori che dai critici come uno dei più influenti intellettuali conservatori del momento.

April 16, 2025

(Eileen) Hunt (Political Science, Univ. of Notre Dame) is unusual, almost unique, in practicing serious literary criticism outside of a literature department. She brings political theory to bear on Mary Shelley in this last installment of a critical trilogy that started with 'Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child' (CH, Jul’18, 55-3919) and was followed by 'Artificial Life after Frankenstein' (2020). 

April 08, 2025

Others say the U.S. is unlikely to face major shortages of the rare earths in question. Eugene Gholz , a professor at the University of Notre Dame who previously advised the Pentagon on manufacturing policy, says there should be ample supply of the seven minerals on global markets because significant trade in rare earths happens outside Chinese government control. “Much of it is illicit and smuggled,” he says.

April 01, 2025

March 26, 2025

On this episode of Virtual Sentiments, host Kristen Collins chats with Eileen Hunt on her latest book, The First Last Man: Mary Shelley and the Postapocalyptic Imagination (2024), which focuses primarily on Mary Shelley's 1826 novel, The Last Man, the first major modern pandemic novel. Hunt explains the tragic life events that motivated Mary Shelley's darker themes*, how the novel relates to our Covid-19 experience, and more.

March 24, 2025

Michael Desch, Director of the Notre Dame International Security Center and Packey J. Dee Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame

While we are by no means close to a ceasefire and eventual peace agreement in Ukraine, it has become widely recognized that there is no other way to end the war with Russia. The high hopes during the heady days of 2022 for a Ukrainian victory, including liberation of Russian-occupied territories, have been dashed by grinding but inexorable Russian advances on the ground over the past year. Not surprisingly, debate is shifting toward what to do to bolster Ukrainian security once the shooting stops.