Gladden Pappin | |
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Born | 1982 St. Louis, Missouri |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Harvard University (AB, AM, PhD) |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of Dallas ·Mathias Corvinus Collegium |
Gladden Pappin (born 1982) is president of the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs,Hungary's foreign policy research institute of state. [1] A political theorist,he was formerly associate professor of politics at the University of Dallas. [2] From 2021 to 2023 he was a visiting senior fellow at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium in Budapest,Hungary. [3] He is cofounder and deputy editor of American Affairs ,as well as cofounder of Postliberal Order. [4] [5]
Pappin was born in St. Louis,Missouri,and is a citizen of the Osage Tribal Nation. [6] He attended Harvard University,where he received AB magna cum laude in history in 2004,and later his AM and PhD in government (2012),under Harvey Mansfield. [7]
From 2013 to 2017,Pappin held fellowships at the University of Notre Dame's Institute for Advanced Studies and the Center for Ethics and Culture. [8] He remains a permanent research fellow and senior adviser of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame.
During the 2016 U.S. presidential election,he joined Julius Krein and Michael Anton as one of the pseudonymous writers for the blog the Journal of American Greatness. [9] After the blog closed in summer 2016,Pappin joined Krein in cofounding American Affairs,a quarterly journal of policy and political thought. The inaugural issue of American Affairs was launched February 21,2017. [10]
In 2017,Pappin joined the University of Dallas as an assistant professor of politics,and was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2021. [11] In September 2021,Pappin moved to Budapest,Hungary,as a visiting senior fellow of the Mathias Corvinus Collegium. [12]
Pappin is a member of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George. [13] [14]
Pappin has articulated a political stance emphasizing family policy,national sovereignty and postliberalism. He cofounded the Substack Postliberal Order in 2021 along with Patrick Deneen,C. C. Pecknold and Adrian Vermeule. [15]
In the launch issue of American Affairs,Pappin criticized the dominance of neoliberalism over the American Left as well as Right:
What has passed as political centrism in recent years was a mixture of social liberalism (at least,limited resistance to social liberalism’s further advance) and economic globalization. This platform earned the name centrism only as a description of the overlapping portion of the Venn diagram of positions held by Washington-based policy experts and their coastal backers. Democrats offered participation in the further advance of progressive social arrangements for a constituency mixed of urban elites and legacy working-class voters. Republicans offered rhetorical objection to the progressive social agenda and deployed patriotic rhetoric in defense of economic policies primarily benefiting the business elite. The constituency supporting this form of centrism is small when considered geographically,and smaller than it seems even in the coastal regions dedicated to it. The forms of argument deployed to defend this centrism never appeal to the political interests of most Americans because their goals lie beyond the scope of national politics:borders must be erased for the sake of global humanitarianism and for the needs of global business. [16]
Pappin has argued that American conservatism is dominated by skepticism of state power,and has argued instead for a robust conservative role for the state.
Rather than asking the question “What should conservatives/progressives do?”considerable advances can be made through certain purely practical considerations:“How can the integrity of the national political community be assured?”“How can commercial activity and technological development continue to be turned toward the common good,and toward our own strategic advantage?”“What can we do with the reins of power,that is,the state,to ensure the common good of our citizens?”Questions such as these are not “antiliberal”—they are simply questions that one asks when one’s political thinking isn’t distorted by liberal limitations on the scope of politics. [17]
Since 2019,Pappin has advocated for a family policy modeled on the Hungarian example. He wrote in American Affairs:
Republicans and Democrats alike are looking for ways to support stable family structures,in order to facilitate the choice to start or grow a family for Americans who wish to do so. The modest,existing forms of family support,chiefly in the form of tax credits,have not and almost certainly will not achieve these goals. A more robust proposal would include a mixture of direct cash transfers . . . credits toward child-related expenditures . . . and possible investment toward future expenses. [18]
At Postliberal Order,Pappin has written:
The most striking feature of the new "multipolar" world is that Western liberals no longer believe in the power of commerce to turn the rest of the world toward liberal democracy. Given that,we might ask:is it not more important for nations to take a practical approach to the emerging circumstances,rather than fall in line with our increasingly brittle liberal empire? [19]
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