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May 23, 2018|Alexis de Tocqueville, Peter Lawler, Walker Percy

Remembering Peter Augustine Lawler

by Brian A. Smith, Richard M. Reinsch II|

Peter Augustine Lawler in 2011 (Zac Calvert/Union University).

 

A year ago today, Peter Augustine Lawler died. Paul Seaton has this reflection today on his passing.

Here we collect the tributes published on Law and Liberty alongside some of his essays and interviews for our site:

Peter Augustine Lawler, a personal remembrance 

James Stoner

He Built Better Than He Knew

Richard Reinsch

Higher Education and the American Soul: A Conversation with Peter Lawler

A Liberty Law Talk podcast with Richard Reinsch

Here are a few of Lawler’s best essays for Law and Liberty:

Freedom is the Condition to Living Well

A comment on the relationship between law, ethics and a life well lived.

Atticus Finch’s American Stoicism

Lawler argues for the consistency of Atticus Finch between To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman, with some help from William Alexander Percy.

Uncovering the Meaning of Covering Meanings

A review of Arthur Melzer’s Philosophy Between the Lines.

Brian A. Smith

Brian A. Smith is the managing editor of Law & Liberty. He is the author of Walker Percy and the Politics of the Wayfarer (Lexington Books, 2017). Before joining Law & Liberty, he taught politics and great books at Montclair State University from 2009-2018. He tweets at @briansmith1980.

About the Author

Richard M. Reinsch II

Richard M. Reinsch II is the editor of Law & Liberty and the host of LibertyLawTalk. He is coauthor with Peter Augustine Lawler of A Constitution in Full: Recovering the Unwritten Foundation of American Liberty (Kansas Press, May 2019). You can follow him @Reinsch84

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