Publications

2025 Justice Sotomayor was right for the wrong reasons Eric Nelson · The Economist — 2022 Beyond the ‘Wretched Subterfuge’: Liberalism, Freedom, and Responsibility Eric Nelson · Rethinking Liberty before Liberalism 0 2022 Reply Eric Nelson · Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies 0 2022 Wagner and the Antisemitism of ‘The Ring’ Eric Nelson · Commentary — 2020 Publius on Monarchy Eric Nelson · The Cambridge Companion to <I>The Federalist</I> 0 2019 James Wilson and the Ancient Constitution Eric Nelson · Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy — 2019 The Theology of Liberalism: Political Philosophy and the Justice of God Eric Nelson · Harvard/Belknap 7 2018 Representation and the Fall Eric Nelson · Modern Intellectual History 7 2018 What kind of book is The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution? Eric Nelson · The New England Quarterly 2 2017 The Ideological Origins and the History of Political Thought Eric Nelson · Eighteenth-Century Studies 2 2016 ‘Barons’ Wars, under Other Names’: Feudalism, Royalism, and the American Founding Eric Nelson · History of European Ideas 5 2016 Flipping his Whigs: A response to Gordon S. Wood Eric Nelson — 2016 Prerogative, Popular Sovereignty, and the American Founding Eric Nelson · Popular Sovereignty in Historical Perspective 4 2015 A Response to Professor Helfman’s Review of The Royalist Revolution Eric Nelson · Harvard Law Review 0 2014 Are We on the Verge of the Death Spiral that Produced the English Revolution of 1642- 1649? Eric Nelson · History News Network — 2014 The Royalist Revolution: Monarchy and the American Founding Eric Nelson · Harvard/Belknap · needs review — 2013 From Selden to Mendelssohn: Hebraism and Religious Freedom Eric Nelson · Freedom and the Construction of Europe 3 2013 Hebraism and the Republican Turn of 1776: A Contemporary Account of the Debate over Common Sense Eric Nelson · The William and Mary Quarterly 2 2012 Politics and Anti-Politics.” Review of In God’s Shadow: Politics in the Hebrew Bible by Michael Walzer Eric Nelson · The Jewish Review of Books — 2012 Translation as Correction: Thomas Hobbes in the 1660s and 1670s Eric Nelson · Why Concepts Matter: Translating Social and Political Thought 3 2011 Patriot Royalism: The Stuart Monarchy in American Political Thought, 1769-75 Eric Nelson · The William and Mary Quarterly 19 2011 Taking Them Seriously: Patriots, Prerogative, and the English Seventeenth Century Eric Nelson · The William and Mary Quarterly 2 2011 The Unlikely Key.” Review of I have always loved the Holy Tongue: Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance Scholarship by Anthony Grafton and Joanna Weinberg Eric Nelson · The New Republic — 2010 The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought Eric Nelson · Harvard/Belknap 293 2009 Shakespeare and the Best State of a Commonwealth Eric Nelson · Shakespeare and Early-Modern Political Thought 8 2008 From Primary Goods to Capabilities: Distributive Justice and the Problem of Neutrality Eric Nelson · Political Theory 76 2008 Thomas Hobbes: Translations of Homer, 2 vols., The Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes Eric Nelson · The Clarendon Press, Oxford 0 2007 ‘Talmudical Commonwealthsmen’ and the Rise of Republican Exclusivism Eric Nelson · The Historical Journal 29 2007 The Problem of the Prince Eric Nelson · The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy 3 2006 Republican Visions Eric Nelson · The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory · needs review — 2006 Utopia through Italian Eyes: Thomas More and the Critics of Civic Humanism Eric Nelson · Renaissance Quarterly 31 2005 Liberty: one concept too many? Eric Nelson · Political Theory 62 2004 The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought Eric Nelson · Cambridge University Press 252 2001 Greek Nonsense in More’s Utopia Eric Nelson · The Historical Journal 46 2001 ‘True Liberty’: Isocrates and Milton’s Areopagitica Eric Nelson · Milton Studies 24