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Scott Yenor is a professor of Political Science at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho.

Scott Yenor earned his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire in political science in 1993. He then earned his Ph.D. from Loyola University Chicago in January 2000. His dissertation was titled "The Moral Sciences of John Locke and David Hume." Yenor then took a teaching position at Boise State University teaching political science since 2000. He has also been a fellow at the Heritage Foundation from 2015-2016 and is currently a Washington Fellow at the Claremont Institute's Center for the American Way of Life.

Yenor's academic writings come from political philosophy with a focus on the family in political thought.

Books:

His book Family Politics (Baylor University Press, 2012): The Idea of Marriage in Modern Political Thought dates back to how successive philosophers thought of marriage and how the family should be integrated into the political order. This book explores how modern ideas of consent and conquering nature slowly displaced the idea of marriage as a community in the arch of modern thought.

Yenor's Recovery of Family Life (Baylor University Press, 2020): Exposing the Limits of Modern Ideologies which completes the work of Family Politics by showing how modern ideas of conquest and contract meet in the contemporary commitment to autonomy. Autonomy is the root of contemporary liberalism, feminism, and sexual liberation theory, and together these ideologies make for what Yenor calls a Rolling Revolution in family life--one that is not yet completed or is it completed. In the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Professor Harvey Mansfield selected The Recovery of Family Life as his favorite book of 2020, observing, "Many are aware that there is something wrong with the American family today, but they shrug and suppose it comes from forces too vague to define and too powerful to oppose. Few consider what Scott Yenor shows in "The Recovery of Family Life"—namely, that there might be a guiding thought behind our family woes, in fact a deliberate ­attempt to abolish both marriage and the family... Yenor documents and ­explains this momentous event with some humor and without indignation, then shows how to oppose it." "WHO READ WHAT: Leaders in Literature, Politics and Arts Share Their Favorite Books of 2020," Wall Street Journal, Dec. 3, 2020.

Yenor is the author of David Hume's Humanity: The Philosophy of Common Life and Its Limits (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), Yenor treats how skeptical philosophy must be tamed and bent toward responsibility through a confrontation with common life or non-philosophical observations about how the world works and what justice is. Common life is not enough, but neither is philosophy. Both need each other, though they repulse each other.