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Algis Valiunas

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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

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 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