D.C. Schindler is Professor of Metaphysics and Anthropology at The John Paul II Institute in Washington, D.C. Prior to his appointment to the Institute, he taught for twelve years at
Villanova University, as one of the founding members of the Humanities Department. Schindler has published widely in philosophy, particularly on the transcendental properties of being
(goodness, truth, and beauty) and their anthropological correlates (freedom, reason, and love), but his recent work has been on the nature of political order. Schindler is a translator of
philosophy and literature from French and German, an editor of the North American edition of Communio: International Catholic Review, and an author of many books, including two volumes of a projected trilogy on the nature of freedom: Freedom from Reality: On the Diabolical Character of Modern Liberty (Notre Dame, 2017), and Retrieving Freedom: The Christian
Appropriation of Classical Tradition (Notre Dame, 2022). He lives in Hyattsville, MD, with his wife and three children.