Presented by

Steele Brand

Dr. Steele Brand is a published scholar and educator who joined the Cairn University faculty in 2023 to create and lead the Politics, Philosophy, and History program. He previously served as a tactical intelligence officer for the U.S. Army. Brand’s research focuses on republics in the Western tradition and the citizen armies that fought for them. Constitutional polities—especially premodern, agrarian republics—cultivated a unique set of virtues and a deadly form of civic militarism that created tough citizens who were as involved in politics as they were proficient at defending their political system. Brand has written on these themes in his book, Killing for the Republic: Citizen-Soldiers and the Roman Way of War.

Articles, Podcasts, and Published Works

Killing for the Republic: Citizen-Soldiers and the Roman Way of War

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Civic Engagement

Republics Need the Liberal Arts

The world is throwing an enormously complex barrage of questions at Americans. First are questions about the justice of wars, from Russia’s war of attrition

July 16, 2024