Current Issue: Download Full PDF of Pietas: Spring 2026
A Letter From the Ciceronian Society
The Declaration of Independence at 250
- F. Cooper Adamo, “A Founding not Liberal, but Conserving“
- John W. Grant, “The Declaration and the World at 250: The Challenge of Globalization“
- Kevin Slack, “The Declaration in the Sermons of the Revolutionary Era“
- Bob Subrick, “The Declaration of Independence and Economic Growth“
- Thomas G. West, “Foreign Policy Principles of the Declaration of Independence”
Feature Articles
- “Suiting the ‘Relish of our Minds”: Locke’s Account of Reason and Happiness
- by Michael Driscoll
- On the Philosophical Significance of Mary as New Eve
- by Marco A. Andreacchio
- Logos, Law, and Longing: Tarzan as Natural Man
- by Justin Lyons
- Armies on the March: two poems (while following the imperial army at Phoenix Flight)
- by Cen Shen
- Armies on the March: Translation and Interpretive essay
- by Miriam J. Dawson
Book Reviews
- Josiah Osgood’s Lawless Republic: The Rise of Cicero and the Decline of Rome
- Review by Ben Peterson
- Richard Ferrier’s The Declaration of America: Our Principles in Thought and Action
- Review by Peter Cross
- Thomas J. Tacoma’s The Political Thought of Calvin Coolidge: Burkean Americanist
- Review by Marisol Balderas
- David J. Staley and Dominic D.J. Endicott’s Knowledge Towns: Colleges and Universities as Talent Magnets
- Review by Jacob Hiserman