Henry T. (Hank) Edmondson III is award-winning, Carl Vinson Professor of Political Science and Public Administration (Emeritus) at Georgia College and State University. He has lectured widely in the U.S., Europe, Taiwan, and China and has served as a Visiting Professor in Beijing and Guatemala. His rather eclectic interests and writings include Literature and Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Constitutional Law, American Government, European Government, Contemporary Culture, and Education Philosophy. His books include The Moral of the Story: Literature and Public Ethics (2000),  Return to Good and Evil: Flannery O’Connor’s Response to Nihilism (2005), John Dewey and the Decline of American Education: How the Patron Saint of Schools Has Corrupted Teaching and Learning (2006), The Course of Human Events: American Government for the 21st Century (2021), What Would the American Founders Do? Leadership Principles From the Federalist Papers (2024), Imagining Europe: Essays on the Past, Present, and Future of the European Union, (2021), and A Political Companion to Flannery O’Connor  (2017). You may find him and his chocolate lab Katie out on the river or the lake fly fishing. He can be followed on X @HankEdmondson1