Jeffrey Sikkenga is associate professor of political science at Ashland University, an Adjunct Fellow of the Ashbrook Center, and senior fellow in the Program on Constitutionalism and Democracy at the University of Virginia. He is deeply interested in the relationship between politics and religion in liberal democracy and America in particular. He has published articles and reviews in journals such as Political Theory, History of Political Thought, Journal of Politics, Journal of Markets and Morality, and Religion and Liberty. He co-edited History of American Political Thought (Lexington Press, 2003), edited Transforming American Welfare (1999), and co-wrote The Free Person and the Free Economy (2002). He is currently working on a book on the natural right to freedom of religion in the political thought of John Locke and the American Founders, exploring the foundations and political implications of religious liberty as a human right. Dr. Sikkenga holds a M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Toronto.
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Written by Jeff Sikkenga
- On Rhodes Scholars and Education - January 26, 2011
- The Happy Loser - November 20, 2010
- Sen. Rockefeller wants to ban the free press - November 18, 2010
- Making a Majority: Can Conservatives Win the Working Class? - November 8, 2010
- Is Obama another Woodrow Wilson? - November 1, 2010
- Property rights and poverty in Niger - February 14, 2007
- A cautionary tale from Precinct 6 - August 9, 2006
- What if... - July 3, 2006
- Zarqawi is dead - June 8, 2006
- The situation in Iran - June 6, 2006
- British imams and the First Amendment - August 5, 2005
- In honor of Christopher Lyons - August 3, 2005
- A musty old book - July 20, 2005
- Being feared and not hated: How the US got control of a town in the Sunni triangle - July 16, 2005
- A long walk to freedom - May 30, 2005
- Movement toward democracy in Kuwait - May 19, 2005
- No excuses: serious schools close the achievement gap - May 14, 2005
- Ohio GOP and Religious Conservatives - March 27, 2005
- Collaborators vs. insurgents, or patriots vs. terrorists? - January 1, 2005
- Violence in Iraq today - the hidden story - December 19, 2004
- The gospel of self-esteem - November 27, 2004
- Palestinian internal politics - November 17, 2004
- Should we tolerate radical Islam? - October 1, 2004
- Some reactions - Dick Morris - October 1, 2004
- Why liberals are liberal; and conservatives, conservative - August 22, 2004
- Intifada in its death throes? - August 7, 2004
- Buckley on Iraq and neo-cons - July 12, 2004
- Irans future - July 6, 2004
- Paradise or the Jungle? - June 17, 2004
- Hamas struggling - June 15, 2004
- Tension between Iranian hardliners and Iraqi Shi’a - June 13, 2004
- Islam in America - May 6, 2004
- Hamas and the facts on the ground - May 5, 2004
- Sharia courts in Canada - April 28, 2004
- A plea for sanity - April 26, 2004
- Irans New Year - April 21, 2004
- Kerry’s bad week - April 16, 2004
- Watch Sistani - April 7, 2004
- The Right College - March 30, 2004
- The Assassination of Yassin - March 22, 2004
- Dean and Gephardt - January 20, 2004