Claes G. Ryn

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Claes Gösta Ryn (born 12 June 1943) is Professor of Politics at The Catholic University of America. He is also chairperson of the National Humanities Institute and editor of the academic journal Humanitas.

Ryn was born and raised in Norrköping in Sweden. He has previously taught at the University of Virginia and at Georgetown University.

Ryn's fields of teaching and research include ethics and politics; politics and culture; and the history of Western political thought. His many books include America the Virtuous: The Crisis of Democracy and the Quest for Empire (2003), The New Jacobinism: Can Democracy Survive? (1991), Democracy and the Ethical Life: A Philosophy of Politics and Community (1990), and Will, Imagination and Reason: Irving Babbitt and the Problem of Reality (1987).