Commentary

Two Great Americanists

Excerpt: Diamond and Storing were associated with conservative politics, and both largely accepted that description of their views. But we must recall that both died in 1977 (another of those amazing coincidences of history), before Reagan Republicanism came… More

Constitutionalist Political Science: Rediscovering Storing’s Philosophical Moderation

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Paul O. Carrese, American Political Thought 4:2 (Spring 2015), pp. 259-288.

Abstract: In an era concerned with dysfunction in American politics, polarization, and the relevance of academia for ameliorating these problems, the fiftieth anniversary of a debate about American political science permits rediscovery of the philosophical… More

What Is an American Conservative?

– Patrick J. Deneen, The American Conservative, October 9, 2013.

Excerpt: Earlier this week I began a series of lectures in one of my classes on the thought of the Anti-Federalists. I began by echoing some of the conclusions of the great compiler and interpreter of the Anti-Federalist writings, Herbert Storing, whose… More

The Constitutional Liberty of the Antifederalists

– Gordon Lloyd, Library of Law and Liberty, March 3, 2013.

Excerpt: Herbert Storing shifts the issue from faith to reason and thus invites us to judge whether or not the Antifederalists warnings about the potentiality of the Constitution make sense. Storing argues that the Antifederalists are relevant, but… More

Methodological Pluralism and Philosophical Moderation in the Study of America’s Constitutional Politics: The Enduring Relevance of Herbert Storing

– Paul Carrese, APSA 2012 Annual Meeting Paper.

Abstract: It is fifty years since Herbert Storing edited Essays on the Scientific Study of Politics, a collection of analyses that criticized the behavioralist and positivist revolution in social science and particularly political science. Two preliminary… More

Recovering, Restoring, and Renewing the Foundations of American Public Administration: The Contributions of Herbert J. Storing

– Morgan, D. F., Kirwan, K. A., Rohr, J. A., Rosenbloom, D. H. and Schaefer, D. L., in Public Administration Review 70, no. 4 (July/August 2010), 621–33.

Abstract: Public administration continues to face an identity crisis that turns on the question of whether the animating principles of the discipline are to be discovered in the political foundations of a given regime, or whether they are to be found in more… More

Remembering Herbert Storing by Walter Berns

– Walter Berns, in Democracy and the Constitution: Landmarks of Contemporary Political Thought (Washington, DC: AEI Press, 2006).

Almost thirty years have passed since Robert Goldwin called from Washington and said that Herbert Storing had died. I must have uttered a cry, because my wife, who was across the room, rose up startled; I then broke into tears. How else does one hear the news… More

Our Problem of Moral Community: Lessons from the Teachings of Herbert Storing

– Harry M. Clor, Political Science Reviewer 29 (2000).

Excerpt: With a view to the enterprise (both inspiring and daunting) of writing about the achievement of my teacher, it becomes necessary to raise the question, In the final analysis, what is the essence or core of Herbert Storing’s work? The question… More

Herbert Storing on the Problem of Democracy by Joseph Bessette

– Joseph Bessette, Political Science Reviewer 29 (2000).

Excerpt: In July of 1977 (less than two months before his death) Herbert Storing made one of his very few forays into the public policy arena by testifying before the U.S. Senate against replacing the electoral college with the direct popular election of… More

Herbert Storing’s Constitutionalism by Ralph Rossum

– Ralph Rossum, Political Science Reviewer 29 (2000).

Excerpt: Only weeks before his death, Herbert J. Storing served as a discussant on a panel at the 1977 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association entitled “Whatever Happened to the Constitution in the Study of Constitutional… More

Herbert Storing and the Study of Public Administration

– Kent A. Kirwan, Political Science Reviewer 29 (2000).

Storing’s Turn to the American Founding by Michael Zuckert

– Michael Zuckert, Political Science Reviewer 29 (2000).

Excerpt: Had Herbert Storing lived the proverbial three score and ten years he would almost certainly be recognized as one of the leading, perhaps, the very leading scholar on the founding of the second half of the twentieth century. As it happened, his… More

A Symposium on Herbert J. Storing

– Joseph Bessette, Political Science Reviewer 29 (2000), 2–7.

Abstract: This article introduces a group of essays on Herbert J. Storing and his works. The essays cover his approaches to the American founding, American constitutionalism, the problematic nature of democracy, the moral community, and the Presidency.

The American Founding and the American Regime by Murray Dry

– Murray Dry, in Leo Strauss, the Straussians, and the American Regime, Kenneth L. Deutsch and John Albert Murley, eds. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999).

An American Scholar by Jeremy Rabkin

– Jeremy Rabkin, Public Interest, Spring 1996.

Excerpt: Herbert Storing was probably the outstanding scholar of the American Founding of the past generation. Before he died in 1977—of a heart attack at the age of 49—he had completed most of the work on a fully annotated, seven-volume collection of… More

Introduction to Toward a More Perfect Union

– Joseph Bessette, in Toward a More Perfect Union: Writings of Herbert J. Storing. Washington, DC: AEI Press, 1995.

Herbert Storing and the Study of Constitutional Law

– Peter Schultz and Gary L. McDowell, Teaching Political Science (1985).

Abstract: Herbert Storing taught students at the University of Chicago about the Constitution by using a textual rather than the usual thematic basis. Students read, discussed, and analyzed the entire Constitution. This textual approach serves to undermine… More

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