Prof. Claes G. Ryn, Ph.D.

Claes G. Ryn, Ph.D., born and raised in Sweden, is currently Professor of Politics at the Catholic University of America, where he served for six years as Politics Department Chairman. He also taught at the University of Virginia and Georgetown University in the fields of ethics, politics, culture, and the history of Western political thought. Ryn is editor of the academic journal Humanitas, is a past president of the Philadelphia Society (2001–2002), and is chairman of the National Humanities Institute. He is widely published on both sides of the Atlantic with articles appearing in leading journals, magazines, and newspapers. His many books include Will, Imagination and Reason (Regnery, 1986); Democracy and the Ethical Life (Catholic University of America Press, 1990); The New Jacobinism: Can Democracy Survive? (National Humanities Institute, 1991); and America the Virtuous (Transaction Publishers, 2003).