Devine has been an Adjunct Scholar at The Heritage Foundation since 1992, producing several research papers, primarily on government management issues[REF] Between 1986 and 2000, he was a regular columnist for The Washington Times and afterwards editor of the American Conservative Union Foundation's ConservativeBattleline.
In 2004, he published a book In Defense of the West [REF] that was adopted as the textbook for the required course in Western civilization.