Biography
James M. Patterson is associate professor of Public Affairs in the Institute of American Civics at the University of Tennessee’s Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs. He is also a contributing editor at Law & Liberty, president of the Ciceronian Society, and an affiliated scholar for the Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy. He has written two books, Religion in the Public Square (2019) and Why Postliberalism Failed (Acton, forthcoming), co-authored with Thomas Howes.
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