Gladden Pappin is a senior visiting fellow at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium in Budapest, on leave from the University of Dallas, where he is associate professor of politics. He is the cofounder of American Affairs as well as Postliberal Order, where he writes regularly on the nature of contemporary politics. He is a director of Pro Civitate Dei and a senior adviser of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame. He received his AB in history and PhD in government from Harvard University.