Lee Trepanier
@lee_trepanier
Dean of @AssumptionDCLAS @AssumptionUMA; Editor of Bloomsbury book series Politics, Literature, and Film. Views are my own.
Of special note this morning, @TFASorg honoring the memory of Eric Tarpinian-Jochym with a Memorial Scholarship. All people in DC, including the young people who go there seeking education and formation, deserve to live in a save city. @rogerrream @foxandfriends
I was pleased to be invited on @foxandfriends this morning to talk about Eric Tarpinian-Jochym, a fine young @TFASorg alum shot & killed in a senseless act of violence in DC.
A @CivitasOutlook Symposium: Who are our American statesmen, and what can we learn from them? Contributions from Joseph Bessette and Gary Schmitt, @stevenfhayward, Yuval Levin, and John Yoo. civitasinstitute.org/research/civit…
Michael Lucchese calls for a republic built on virtue, not consumer data. loom.ly/yfV_Wa0
We are building the future without a blueprint and @ryanlbangert says that is the danger. loom.ly/QyF7IBA
Tech shaped our present. Can it rescue our future? Explore Alex Karp’s blueprint for the West and see what our three articles reveal about the road ahead. loom.ly/apo_N1c
Despising an Ancient Liberty my latest for @LawLiberty lawliberty.org/despising-an-a…
I reviewed Alex Karp's The Technological Republic for a @LawLiberty symposium. Suffice it to say, I did not like it. lawliberty.org/book-review/cr…
.@JohnGGrove1 unpacks a vision of crony capitalism wrapped in a flag and sold as patriotism. loom.ly/fpYDbkc
@JohnGGrove1: Not all who cry “Western Civilization!” are actually friends of the civil order, culture, and freedoms that Western countries have been blessed to enjoy. lawliberty.org/book-review/cr…
"Alexander Karp and Nicholas Zamiska provide a rousing, if limited, call-to-arms against modern threats to liberty." lawliberty.org/book-review/ci…
Social Security is projected to run short by 2034. @thomas_savidge outlines what comes next. loom.ly/ZfvQ8J8
Trial by jury is being pushed aside and @DanJTPitt calling it out. loom.ly/kZ6VwUQ
It is true that the English instinct to conform was fine in long ages of moderation, but surely dangerous in the face of official derangement. Additionally boomer liberals tend to still think they should welcome the new without prejudice, not realising the new is now nihilistic.
@johnmilbank3: "The English have lost their ancient grit, and with it, their decency." thepublicdiscourse.com/2025/07/98395/
@DanJTPitt: "The UK government appears poised to trade the precious right of jury trials for a mess of pottage." lawliberty.org/despising-an-a…
LOCAL: So good to see Duke's reopening here in Malibu, but as we note in our @PepperdineSPP/@BeaconEconomics report, the damage done to Malibu businesses by the #PCH closures will take a long time to repair... labusinessjournal.com/special-report…
"Takings and Implied Causes of Action," by Ann Woolhandler, Michael Collins, and me, forthcoming in the Cato Supreme Court Review and now on @ssrn. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… 1/4
What happens when abstractions override experience? @ThinkerCatholic reflects on Flannery O’Connor’s enduring warning about the limits of theory. loom.ly/pNXthgU
“Russ how did you go from gyms to power plants?” Bro, I just switched from animate prime movers to inanimate prime movers.
My paper, "The Distributist Paradigm as Shown through Some Objections" was just published in the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly. pdcnet.org/acpq/content/a…