Dr. James F. Pontuso is Elliott Professor of Political Science at Hampden-Sydney College. He has held several Fulbright appointments at Charles University in Prague and was John Adams Chair at the Institute of United States Studies at the University of London. He is the author of Assault on Ideology: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Political Thought as well as Vaclav Havel: Civic Responsibility in the Postmodern Age, and editor of Political Philosophy Comes to Ricks: Casablanca and American Civic Culture.