Tyler Castle

Research Interests

Tyler Castle is a third-year doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science, with concentrations in political theory and constitutional studies. He is researching the notion of moderation in Christian political thought, attending especially to the contributions of Augustine, Pascal, and Alexis de Tocqueville.

Tyler's research also traces a salient feature in the thought of Tocqueville and Jacques Maritain. Both thinkers came to embrace aspects of modernity but also thought traditional religion and morality were crucial to the success of modern liberal democracies. Moreover, they both emphasized the primacy of the transcendent human soul as an ordering principle for society prone to obsession upon solely immanent concerns.  

Before coming to Notre Dame, Tyler worked for nearly a decade at the American Enterprise Institute, where he had the opportunity to meet and study with Michael Novak.