Robert Royal is president of the Faith & Reason Institute in Washington, D.C. His books include:
1492 And All That: Political Manipulations of History (1992),
Reinventing the American People: Unity and Diversity Today (1995),
The Virgin and the Dynamo: The Use and Abuse of Religion in the Environment Debate (1999, Eerdmans),
Dante Alighieri in the Spiritual Legacy Series (1999, Crossroad), and T
he Catholic Martyrs of the Twentieth Century: A Comprehensive Global History (2000, Crossroad). Dr. Royal holds a B.A. and M.A. from Brown University and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the Catholic University of America. He has taught at Brown University, Rhode Island College, and The Catholic University of America. He received fellowships to study in Italy from the Renaissance Society of American (1977) and as a Fulbright scholar (1978). From 1980 to 1982, he served as editor-in-chief of
Prospect magazine in Princeton, New Jersey. Among the other books he has published are:
Jacques Maritain and the Jews (University of Notre Dame Press),
Building a Free Society (with George Weigel),
Crisis and Opportunity: U.S. Policy in Central America and the Caribbean (with Mark Falcoff), and, with Virgil Nemoianu,
The Hospitable Canon and Play, Literature, Religion: Essays in Cultural Intertextuality. He is a regular columnist for Crisis magazine and his articles have appeared in numerous scholarly journals and other publications, including
First Things, Communio, the
Wilson Quarterly, the
Catholic Historical Review, the
Washington Post, the
Washington Times, National Review, The Wall Street Journal, and
The American Spectator. He writes and lectures frequently on questions of ethics, culture, religion, and politics, and has appeared on various television and radio stations around the United States. Dr. Royal has also translated books and articles from French, Spanish, and Italian; most recently J.-P. Torrell’s
Initiation à saint Thomas d’Aquin (Catholic University of America Press, 1996) and Roberto Papinis
The Christian Democrat International (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997).
