Daniel J. Mahoney is professor emeritus at Assumption University, Senior Visiting Fellow at Hillsdale College, Senior Writer at Law and Liberty, and executive editor of Perspectives on Political Science. Mahoney has written extensively (in a dozen books and over five hundred articles, essays, and reviews) on statesmanship, French political thought, the literary art and political thought of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, conservatism, religion and politics, and various themes in political philosophy. His book The Statesman as Thinker: Portraits of Greatness, Courage, and Moderation was awarded the Paolucci Prize for Conservative Book of the Year in 2023. Mahoney has also written for a wide range of periodicals, including the National Interest, First Things, National Review, the Claremont Review of Books, and the New Criterion.