Algis Valiunas
Fellow
Program: Science, Technology, and Society
Contact: avaliunas@thenewatlantis.com
Algis Valiunas is a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a contributing editor to The New Atlantis, EPPC’s journal about the ethical, political, and social implications of modern science technology.
A literary essayist, his writings have appeared in Commentary, the Weekly Standard, National Review, First Things, the American Spectator, the New Criterion, and the Claremont Review of Books. They have also appeared in various collections, including most recently The Best Spiritual Writing, 2013 (Penguin, 2012). He is also the author of the book Churchill’s Military Histories: A Rhetorical Study (Encounter, 2002). He holds degrees from Dartmouth College; Trinity College, Cambridge; and the University of Chicago, where Saul Bellow was his doctoral dissertation adviser in the Committee on Social Thought.
PUBLICATIONS
The Gospel According to Dickens
Published in First Things - April 2021 issue on March 16, 2021
The Ordinary Ennobled
Published in The New Criterion - January 2021 issue on February 1, 2021
A Scientist’s Mind, A Poet’s Soul
Published in The New Atlantis - Winter 2021 issue on January 20, 2021
Our History Then and Now
Published in National Affairs - Winter 2021 issue on January 4, 2021
The Genius of Wordsworth
Published in First Things - December 2020 issue on December 2, 2020
Civilized Uncertainty
Published in Humanities Magazine on September 8, 2020
In Plague Time
Published in Claremont Review of Books - Summer 2020 issue on August 20, 2020
Russian Purgatory
Published in First Things - June 2020 issue on July 20, 2020
The Mind of the Moralist
Published in Claremont Review of Books - Spring 2020 issue on April 1, 2020
Turing and the Uncomputable
Published in The New Atlantis - Winter 2020 issue on April 1, 2020
Everlasting Youth
Published in Claremont Review of Books - Winter 2020 issue on February 19, 2020
Ibsen’s Soulcraft
Published in First Things - December 2019 issue
Nelson Algren: Chicago’s Bard of the Downtrodden
Published in National Review - July 29, 2019 issue on July 26, 2019
The American Art of Murder
Published in National Affairs - Summer 2019 issue on June 21, 2019
Diderot and the Enlightenment Cult of Reason
Published in National Review - April 22, 2019 issue on April 19, 2019
Battle for a Continent
Published in Claremont Review of Books - Winter 2019 issue on April 4, 2019
The Most Dangerous Possible German
Published in The New Atlantis - Winter 2019 issue on April 1, 2019
The Fellowship of the Cursed Poets
Published in Claremont Review of Books - Vol. XVIII, Number 3, Summer 2018 on January 10, 2019
Jonas Salk, the People’s Scientist
Published in The New Atlantis - Summer/Fall 2018 issue on December 21, 2018
Waiting for Gounod
Published in The Weekly Standard on December 14, 2018
Glory Days
Published in The Weekly Standard on November 15, 2018
Don Juan in Hell
Published in The Weekly Standard on May 24, 2018
The Tragic Sense
Published in Claremont Review of Books on May 8, 2018
Richard Feynman and the Pleasure Principle
Published in The New Atlantis - Spring 2018 issue on May 11, 2018
Feynman at 100
Published in The Weekly Standard on May 11, 2018
Justice and Sorrow
Published in The Weekly Standard - January 22, 2018 issue on January 18, 2018
The Noble Goethe
Published in The Weekly Standard - November 20, 2017 issue on November 16, 2017
Martin Luther’s Reformation
Published in Claremont Review of Books - Fall 2017 issue on October 19, 2017
Master Builder
Published in Claremont Review of Books - Summer 2017 issue on August 1, 2017
Jane Austen: The Personal
Published in The Weekly Standard - July 17, 2017 issue on July 14, 2017
Between Heaven and Hell
Published in Claremont Review of Books - Spring 2017 issue on May 1, 2017
Kraus Revisited
Published in The Weekly Standard - February 27, 2017 issue on February 23, 2017
America’s Shakespeare
Published in National Affairs - Winter 2017 issue on January 12, 2017
Voice of Civilization
Published in Claremont Review of Books - Fall 2016 issue on December 21, 2016
A Historian’s Craft
Published in Claremont Review of Books - Volume XVI, Number 2, Spring 2016 on June 9, 2016
Shakespeare’s Savior
Published in Philanthropy magazine - Winter 2016 issue on January 8, 2016
The Man Who Loved Hitler
Published in Commentary Magazine - June 2015 issue on June 10, 2015
A Seventh Note
Published in The Weekly Standard - May 4, 2015 issue on April 30, 2015
On the Slaughter Bench of History
Published in Claremont Review of Books - Summer 2014 issue on September 3, 2014
King of Pain
Published in Claremont Review of Books on March 5, 2012
Mastering the Master
Published in Commentary magazine, November 2009 on November 1, 2009
Starlight in Hell
Published in First Things, June/July 2009 on June 8, 2009
Ring’s Inner Circle
Published in Weekly Standard, Volume 014, Issue 32 on May 11, 2009
Socking the Angel
Published in The American Spectator, March 2009 on March 16, 2009