Remembering Peter R. Moody, Jr. by Letian Lei
My acquaintance with Professor Peter R. Moody, Jr. (1943-2026) began when I submitted a draft of my modest work on contemporary Chinese conservatism for...
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Fall 2026
Volume 88 Issue 4
Contributors
Samuel Mead (Open Access) 
The Telos of Wise Legislation: Virtue and Death in Plato’s Laws I and II
Wan Ning Seah (Open Access)
Civil Religion and Political Freedom in Rousseau’s Social Contract
Michelle Chun (Open Access)
The Pragmatic Locke: On the “Two Lockes” Problem and Waldron’s Christian Egalitarianism
Matheson Stuart Russell and David Kelley (Open Access)
Democracy and Rule over Others: The Boundary Problem and the Limits of Collective Self-Rule
A Symposium on Melvin Rogers’s The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought
Jack Turner (Open Access)
Introduction
Erin Pineda (Open Access)
The Problem-Space of Democratic Faith
Paul Taylor (Open Access)
Breadth and Depth, Perfectionism and Paradox: Reading Black Politics by a Darkened Light
Melvin Lee Rogers (Open Access)
The Luminosity of Faith: A Response to my Readers
Books Reviewed
Review Essay
Katherine Bermingham (Open Access)
The Fight for Hannah Arendt’s Soul
Tom Arnold-Forster: Walter Lippmann: An Intellectual Biography
Robert A. Ballingall: Plato's Reverent City: The Laws and the Politics of Authority
George Crowder: Isaiah Berlin in the Twenty-First Century: Liberal Pluralism for Troubled Times
Paul DeHart: The Social Contract in the Ruins
Harvey Flaumenhaft: The Framework of the Federalist: Visualizing the Structure of the Argumentation
Lori Jo Marsco: Feminism and the Cinema of Experience
Steven D. Smith: The Godless Constitution and the Providential Republic
Bob Pepperman Taylor: Liberal Education and Democracy
Scholarly Exchange
Bryan Cheang and Daniel Ho (Open Access)
Liberal Polycentrism in East Asia: Not “Small” or “Big,” but Bottom-Up - Response to Sungmoon Kim
Sungmoon Kim (Open Access)
Confucians Don’t Want to Live in a Small World: Reply to Cheang and Ho
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The editorial team at ROP is excited to welcome Rachel Lentz as one of our 2026/27 Editorial Interns.
Rachel Lentz is a fourth-year PhD candidate at Notre Dame. Her research interests include modern political thought, democratic theory, political economy...