Lenore T Ealy

Series Editor

with Paul Dragos Aligica, Polycentricity: Studies in Institutional Diversity and Voluntary Governance (Lexington).

Conversations on Philanthropy, volumes 1-10 (The Philanthropic Enterprise 2004-2014).

Journal Editorial

Editorial Board, Economic Affairs: An International Journal of Liberal Political Economy (London: Wiley), 2022-present.

Guest Editor, Independent Review. Symposium on “The Future of Philanthropy.” Spring 2019. (Independent Institute).

Guest Editor, Economic Affairs. Themed issue on The Philanthropic Enterprise.  Summer 2005 (London:  Blackwell)

Associate Editor, The Southern Historian, The University of Alabama, 1988-89, 1991-92.

Edited Books

Robert F. Garnett, Jr., Paul Lewis, and Lenore T. Ealy, eds.  Commerce and Community (Routledge 2014).

Lenore T. Ealy and Stephen Klugewicz, eds. History, On Proper Principles: Essays in Honor of Forrest McDonald.  (Wilmington, DE:  ISI Books, 2010).

Robert C. Enlow and Lenore T. Ealy, eds.  Liberty and Learning:  Milton Friedman’s Voucher Idea at 50. (Washington:  Cato Press, 2006).

Published Chapters, Articles, and Essays:

With Allen P. Mendenhall, “Two Cheers for Humanomics,” in Public Choice, forthcoming 2024.

With Nikolai G. Wenzel, “In Search of Civil Society: Coordination, Collective Action, and Voluntary Governance in the Classical Liberal Tradition,” in Routledge Handbook of Classical Liberalism, eds. Richard A. Epstein, Mario Rizzo, and Liya Palagashvili, forthcoming 2024.

“Once More: Liberalism and Some Problems of Historical Transmission Between the Generations,” The 9th Annual Liggio Lecture, in Finding New Ideas in Old Ones. Brad Lips, ed. (Washington, DC: Atlas Network, 2022).

“The Recovery of Tradition,” in The Man from the Shadows: Rediscovering the Work of Edward Shils. Christopher Adair-Toteff and Stephen Turner, eds. (Manchester: Manchester University Press, forthcoming 2018).

“Comment on Vernon Smith’s ‘Faith and the Compatibility of Science and Religion’, in The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Reflections on Faith, Science, and Economics. (Grand Rapids: Acton Press, 2017).

“Lost in Methodenstreit,” in What is Classical Liberal History? Michael Douma and Phil Magness, eds. (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017).

“The Intellectual Crisis in Philanthropy,” Society (10.1007/s12115-013-9741-2 ).

“Investing in the Ideas of Liberty: Reflections on the Philanthropic Enterprise in Higher Education,” Independent Review, Vol 17, No 2 (Fall 2012), 177-191.

“Richard C. Cornuelle and the Revolution of Social Responsibility,” Society, Vol 48, No 6 (2011), 510-516.

“Justice, Beneficence, and the Modern Age,”  Symposium on The Politics of Philanthrocapitalism, Society, Vol. 48 Issue 5 (2011), 403-406.

“Coordinates of Resilience:  On the Nimbleness of Community and Faith-Based Organizations in Disaster Response and Recovery,” Local Knowledge, Vol. 2, (2009). 

Lenore T. Ealy and Steven D. Ealy, “Progressivism and Philanthropy.”  The Good Society, Vol. 15, No. 1, (2006).

James C. Stroud, Lawrence L. Smith, Lenore T. Ealy, and Rosemary Hurst.  “Choosing to Teach:  Perceptions of Male Preservice Teachers in Early Childhood and Elementary Education.”  Early Child Development and Care, Vol. 163, pp. 49-60.

“Alabama’s Self-Help Savior,”  Policy Review:  The Journal of American Citizenship, Washington, DC, September-October, 1997.

Published Reviews:

Elisabeth S. Clemens.  Civic Gifts: Voluntarism and the Making of the American Nation-State. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020.  In Independent Review, Fall 2022.

Raghuram Rajan. The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind. By New York: Penguin Press, 201. In Independent Review, Spring 2020.

Zoltan J. Acs.  Why Philanthropy Matters: How the Wealthy Give, and What it Means for Our Economic Well-Being.  Princeton University Press, 2013.  In Public Choice, October 2013.

Fred Inglis. History Man: The Life of R. G. Collingwood.  Princeton University Press, 2009.  In Books and Culture, January 2012.

Peter Frumkin.  Strategic Giving:  The Art and Science of Philanthropy.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 2006.  In Azure:  Ideas for the Jewish Nation, Spring 5767/2007

Timothy D. Hall.  Contested Boundaries:  Itinerancy and the Reshaping of the Colonial American Religious World.  Durham:  University of North Carolina Press, 1994.  In 1650-1850:  Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era.

Arthur Versluis.  American Transcendentalism and Asian Religions.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1993.  In 1650-1850:  Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, 1996.

Albert Jay Nock.  The State of the Union:  Essays in Social Criticism.  Edited with a foreword by Charles H. Hamilton.  Indianapolis:  Liberty Press, 1991.  In The Southern Historian, Spring 1993.

J. Bill Berry, ed.  Located Lives:  Place and Idea in Southern Autobiography.  Athens:  University of Georgia Press, 1990.  In The Southern Historian, Spring 1992.