Daniel J. Mahoney is at work on a book tentatively titled Sparks of the Spirit: A Guide to the Enduring Wisdom—and Prophetic Judgments—of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, to be published by Creed & Culture.
Mahoney is professor emeritus at Assumption University, Senior Fellow at the Claremont Institute, Senior Visiting Fellow at Hillsdale College, Senior Writer at Law and Liberty, and executive editor of Perspectives on Political Science. He has written extensively (in a dozen books and over five hundred articles, essays, and reviews) on statesmanship, French political thought, the literary art and political thought of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, conservatism, religion and politics, and various themes in political philosophy. His book The Statesman as Thinker: Portraits of Greatness, Courage, and Moderation was awarded the Palouci Prize for Conservative Book of the Year by ISI in 2023. His latest book, The Persistence of the Ideological Lie: The Totalitarian Impulse Then and Now, was published by Encounter Books. Mahoney has written for a wide range of academic and public journals, including the Political Science Reviewer, Perspectives on Political Science, the Public Interest, the National Interest, First Things, National Review, the Claremont Review of Books, the New Criterion, Modern Age, Commentaire, La Nef, the European Conservative, and the Hungarian Review. He has also edited and introduced the writings of Raymond Aron, Aurel Kolnai, Pierre Manent, Bertrand de Jouvenel, Joszef Cardinal Mindszenty, and the Nobel Laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. His writings have been translated into thirteen languages, including French, Italian, Hungarian, Romanian, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Korean.