If only Daniel Mahoney had taught at an Ivy League university, millions more Americans would be aware of him than is the case in 2025. Still, a growing body of opinion leaders is paying attention to Mahoney’s record of producing one brilliant, insightful, intellectually rigorous book after another.
Indeed, this professor emeritus at Assumption University won the Paolucci Prize for the Conservative Book of the Year, awarded by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute in 2023. (Henry and Anne Paolucci endowed this cash prize and were my undergrad and graduate school mentors at St. John’s University in the 1970s.)
