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John Pascarella

Lyceum Visiting Scholar, Lyceum Program, Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism

John Antonio Pascarella, Ph.D., is a Lyceum Visiting Scholar. Before rejoining the CISC, he was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Utah State University, a Hayek Visiting Scholar at the CISC, a Postdoctoral Fellow in International Politics at Saint Vincent College and a Visiting Lecturer at Georgia State University. He received his B.A. from Mercer University in Political Science and Philosophy and his Ph.D. in Political Theory and International Relations from the University of North Texas. He has taught courses in the History of Political Thought and International Relations.

Pascarella is the author of "Economics and the Public Good: The End of Desire in Aristotle's Politics and Ethics." He has published articles on Thomas Hobbes and the relationship between speech and university education and co-authored a piece on the effect of misinformation in social media on voting decisions; he also wrote a book chapter about Aristotle's teaching on war. Ever a student of the Great Books, his primary research interests stem from the Ancient Greeks' insights into the relationship between friendship, speech and politics. His next projects aim to explore Plato, Aristotle and Thucydides' insights into the character of democracy.