writes for The Imaginative Conservative and has been identified as a political conservative. Beau Breslin, in his book The Communitarian Constitution, refers to him, along with Georgetown University Professor of Government George W. Carey and others, as a “right-wing communitarian” because of his emphasis on the importance of local social and religious associations in the formation of virtuous persons and decent lives. Frohnen, however, has also gone on the public record as an opponent of current American policies in the Muslim world (regarding Iraq and Afghanistan in particular). He also distanced himself from “conservative” favoring of big business, criticizing what he has called “economic policies and political cronyism... enabling economic predators.” He considers himself a “pluralist” in the tradition of Alexis de Tocqueville, Edmund Burke, Robert Nisbet, Bertrand de Jouvenel, Russell Kirk, Alasdair MacIntyre, and others often labeled conservative but most concerned with reinvigorating a diversity of local associations as necessary for human flourishing and the taming of political power. References External links Ohio Northern University, Claude W. Pettit College of Law http://law.onu.edu/ Frohnen's Staff Profile at ONU Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal http://www.kirkcenter.org/ Frohnen's Bio at the Kirk Center The Heritage Foundation Catholic University of America faculty University of California, Davis alumni Ave Maria School of Law faculty Oglethorpe University faculty Ohio Northern University faculty Emory University alumni Cornell University alumni Reed College faculty Living people Year of birth missing (living people)