Linda Raeder holds an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Richmond
(Thesis: “F.A. Hayek on the Role of Reason in Human Affairs”) and a Ph.D., with distinction,
in Politics from the Catholic University of America (Dissertation: “John Stuart Mill and the
Religion of Humanity”). She was awarded a Humane Studies Fellowship, a Weaver Fellowship,
an Earhart Foundation Fellowship, an Albright Fellowship by the University of Richmond, and
a Governor’s Fellowship by the University of Virginia.
Dr. Raeder recently returned from a year in Germany, where she taught political and economic
theory at the Center for U.S. Studies, Wittenberg. She has been Associate Editor of Humanitas,
published by the National Humanities Institute, since 1994.
Her publications include “The Nature of Civil Society: an American Perspective”;
“The Liberalism/Conservatism of Burke and Hayek: A Critical Comparison”; “Liberalism
and the Common Good: A Hayekian Perspective on Communitarianism”; “Education and the Free
Society”; and “Marxism as Psychodrama.”
Her book “John Stuart Mill and the Religion of Humanity” is being published by the University of Missouri Press.
As a conference participant, she has presented papers such as “Civil Society and the Renewal
of American Culture”; “The Nature of Civil Society’; “The Psychological Presidency”;
“Liberalism and the Common Good”; and “The Rule of Law.”
Dr. Raeder’s personal interests are painting, music, literature, and running.
Linda Raeder holds an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Richmond
(Thesis: “F.A. Hayek on the Role of Reason in Human Affairs”) and a Ph.D., with distinction,
in Politics from the Catholic University of America (Dissertation: “John Stuart Mill and the
Religion of Humanity”). She was awarded a Humane Studies Fellowship, a Weaver Fellowship,
an Earhart Foundation Fellowship, an Albright Fellowship by the University of Richmond, and
a Governor’s Fellowship by the University of Virginia.