Robert R. Reilly

Westminster Institute

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Robert R. Reilly is Director of the Westminster Institute. In his twenty-five years of government service, he served as Special Assistant to the President and as Director of the Voice of America, was Senior Advisor for Information Strategy to the Secretary of Defense, and taught at National Defense University. He attended Georgetown University and the Claremont Graduate University, and he has published widely on American politics and morals, foreign policy, and classical music. His books include Making Gay Okay: How Rationalizing Homosexual Behavior Is Changing Everything, Surprised by Beauty: A Listener’s Guide to the Recovery of Modern Music, and The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis. His latest book, America on Trial: a Defense of the Founding, is the key theme for the Center for Evangelical Catholicism’s 2021 Fall Conference.

Publications

  • Justice and War In the Nuclear Age, "The Nature of Today's Conflict," University Press of America, 1983.

  • Peace In a Nuclear Age, "In Proportion to What? The Problem With the Pastoral," Catholic University Press, 1986.

  • Der Politische Krieg: Die Reale Gefahr, ("The Political War: The Real Danger"), Soviet Global Strategy, Ost-Institut, Switzerland, 1986.

  • The New Federalist Papers, "E Pluribus Unum," University Press of America, 1989.

  • The Fall of the Wall, editor, Publisher C.L.E.B Gallery, 1990.

  • We Hold These Truths, "The Truths They Held," Franciscan University Press, 1991.

  • The Catholic Imagination, “The Music of the Spheres,” St. Augustine Press 2003.

  • Surprised by Beauty: A Listener's Guide to the Recovery of Modern Music, Revised and Expanded Edition, Ignatius Press 2016.

  • The Roots of Islamist Ideology, CRCE Briefing Paper, London, 2006.

  • Strategic Influence, IWP Press, 2007.

  • The Closing of the Muslim Mind, ISI Books, 2010

  • Fighting the Ideological War: Strategies for Defeating Al Qaeda (Public Diplomacy in an Age of Global Terrorism: Lessons from the Past), Westminster Institute conference, 25 May 2011

  • Information Operations: Successes and Failures, Westminster Institute, 2013

  • Making Gay Okay: How Rationalizing Homosexual Behavior Is Changing Everything, Ignatius Press, 2014.

  • America on Trial: A Defense of the Founding, Ignatius Press, 2020.