Support H-Net | Buy Books Here | Help Support the NBN and NBN en Español on Patreon | Visit New Books Network en Español!
- African Studies
- African American Studies
- American Politics
- American Studies
- American South
- American West
- Asian American Studies
- Australian and New Zealand Studies
- British Studies
- Canadian Studies
- Caribbean Studies
- Central Asian Studies
- Chinese Studies
- East Asian Studies
- Eastern European Studies
- European Politics
- French Studies
- German Studies
- Iberian Studies
- India Studies
- Indian Ocean World
- Iranian Studies
- Irish Studies
- Israel Studies
- Italian Studies
- Japanese Studies
- Korean Studies
- Latino Studies
- Latin American Studies
- Mexican Studies
- Middle Eastern Studies
- Native American Studies
- Pacific Studies
- Polish Studies
- Russian and Eurasian Studies
- Southeast Asian Studies
- South Asian Studies
- Turkish Studies
- Ukrainian Studies
- Western European Studies
- World Affairs
- Animal Studies
- Anthropology
- Archaeology
- Business, Management, and Marketing
- Media
- Critical Theory
- Disability Studies
- Drugs, Addiction and Recovery
- Education
- Economics
- Finance
- Geography
- Gender Studies
- Genocide Studies
- Higher Education
- Human Rights
- Journalism
- Language
- Law
- LGBTQ+ Studies
- National Security
- Philanthropy
- Philosophy
- Policing, Incarceration, and Reform
- Political Science
- Politics & Polemics
- Public Policy
- Sex, Sexuality, and Sex Work
- Sociology
- Sound Studies
- Sports
- Urban Studies
- Big Ideas
- Celebration Studies
- Co-Authored
- Cover Story
- Historical Materialism
- History Ex Silo
- Interpretive Political and Social Science
- Invested Investor
- Landscape Architecture
- Late Antiquity
- Mormonism
- NBN Book of the Day
- NBN Seminar
- Postscript: Conversations on Politics and Political Science
- Practical History
- Preparing for Life After Grad School
- Psychology and Climate Change
- Syriac Studies
- The Chair: In The Room at the Fed
- New Books with Miranda Melcher
About Hope J. Leman
Hope J. Leman is a grants researcher in the biomedical sciences. She is particularly interested in the subjects of natural law, religious liberty and history generally.Hope J. Leman is a grants researcher in the biomedical sciences. She is particularly interested in the subjects of natural law, religious liberty and history generally.
NBN Episodes hosted by Hope J.:
October 7, 2024
The Indispensable Right
“It’s a free country.” Many of us recall saying that as children as we learned that we were American citizens who were endowed with certain rights—suc…
November 18, 2023
Robert P. George's 'Making Men Moral'-A 30th Anniversary Conference
The first book in the storied career of one of the most influential conservative legal scholars and philosophers of our day is the focus of an upcomin…
June 25, 2023
Progressivism
“Only recently have scholars outside the historical profession identified progressivism for what it was and continues to be: a fundamental rupture wit…
May 16, 2023
The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics
America’s religious and political public forum is no longer confined to debates between liberals (be they Catholics or Protestants) and socially conse…
April 28, 2023
Social Conservatism for the Common Good: A Protestant Engagement with Robert P. George
Robert P. George is the indispensable man of American social conservatism. The Princeton professor is a scholar of such intellectual power that he alm…
February 14, 2023
Jordan Peterson, God, and Christianity
“The most influential biblical interpreter in the world today is not a pastor, a Scripture scholar, or a bishop. He’s a clinical psychologist with no …
February 11, 2023
The Story of Abortion in America
Abortion is an issue like no other. Our attitudes towards it and how we define when life begins determine the very words we use when discussing aborti…
February 3, 2023
The Practice of American Constitutional Law
What areas of our lives are governed by constitutional law? When asked about what constitutional law is, Americans tend to think of notable Supreme Co…
January 11, 2023
Religious Liberty and the American Founding
What is religious liberty, anyway? What are its origins? What are religious exemptions? What would a jurisprudence of religious liberty based on the i…
December 9, 2022
From Survive to Thrive
The term “mental illness” can itself be anxiety-inducing and depressing. There are words, though, that can counter the fears and stresses that mind-re…
December 5, 2022
Conservatism
Conservatism needs to be rediscovered. That is, it needs to be differentiated from the post WWII concept of liberal democracy and return to its tradit…
November 3, 2022
Leo Strauss on Democracy, Technology, and Liberal Education
There are few thinkers who engender as much debate about their legacy as Leo Strauss (1899 –1973). His critics and biographers often don’t even agree …
October 11, 2022
Parliament the Mirror of the Nation
Given that we live in an era roiled by concerns about how democratic supposedly democratic countries actually are and when skepticism abounds about ho…
October 10, 2022
The Prophet of Harvard Law
Though relatively short, the 2022 book The Prophet of Harvard Law: James Bradley Thayer and His Legal Legacy (UP of Kansas, 2022) by Andrew Porwancher…
September 21, 2022
Completely Free
As we emerge from a period of government-mandated lockdowns and as threats to free speech multiply, we would be wise to re-engage with the work of a s…
September 2, 2022
Tearing Us Apart
According to political philosopher Ryan T. Anderson and journalist Alexandra DeSanctis, abortion harms everything it touches. It is an act of lethal v…
June 28, 2022
The Political Writings of Alexander Hamilton
How much does the average person know about Alexander Hamilton (1755 or 1757-1804)? Would we have guessed that this hero of many fiscal conservatives…
March 24, 2022
Our Dear-Bought Liberty
Here is a fun quiz question. What distinction does Charles Carroll (1737–1832) hold in American History? Answer: he was the longest-surviving signer o…
October 20, 2021
America Transformed
What’s a “progressive?” We hear constantly about the rift in the Democratic Party between its “progressive” wing and its “moderate” one. But what exac…
October 12, 2021
The Rights of Women
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) was one of the most important moral philosophers and political theorists ever. Her writings on liberty and equality ha…
October 4, 2021
Let's Be Reasonable
Do we really need universities and colleges anymore? Have they become too politicized? Many conservatives have started to write off American academia.…
September 6, 2021
Losing Our Dignity
Despite, or perhaps because of, the fact that an enormous proportion of medical care worldwide is provided under the auspices of religious organizatio…
August 23, 2021
Religious Liberty in Crisis
“Religious liberty” is a phrase that we often hear, particularly in news stories revolving around Supreme Court decisions. But what is religious liber…
August 13, 2021
Them Before Us
Children have the right to be raised by both their mother and father. That used to be a noncontroversial idea. But no longer. In their eye-opening 2…