* The Voice of Liberal Learning: Michael Oakeshott and the Challenge of Philosophy (2013)
* Political Theories of Modernity (2008)
* Hannah Arendt (1995)
* The Unfinished Project: Modernity in the Work of Hannah Arendt (1991)
* The Grammar of Politics: Constitutional Politics and the Limits of Modernity (1990)
* The Ethos of Romanticism (1986)
* The Rhetoric of Romanticism (1983)
* Literature and Technology: The American Writer in the Computer Age (1979)
* Of One's Own: Simone Weil and the Politics of Self-Denial (1971)
* The Spiral Ascent: Theme and Symbol in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats (1955)
Essays and articles:
* "Democracy Is Not Democracy" (2011)
* "Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Hope" (2010)
* "The Limits of Constitutionalism: Hannah Arendt and Michael Oakeshott on Constitutional Government" (2009)
* "The Question of Revolution: Hannah Arendt and Michael Oakeshott on the French Revolution" (2008)
* "The Idea of Liberal Education in an Age of Globalization: Hannah Arendt and the Challenge of Modernity" (2007)
* "Constitutional Politics and the Limits of Modernity: Hannah Arendt and Michael Oakeshott" (1996)
* "Hannah Arendt and the Concept of the Political: A Response to Seyla Benhabib" (1994)
* "The Political Meaning of Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem" (1992)
* "Hannah Arendt and the American Tradition of Political Thought" (1988)
* "What Is Literature? A Response to Terry Eagleton" (1984)
Edited volumes:
* The Political Writings of Hannah Arendt: A Centennial Retrospective (2018)
* The Arendt Lexicon (2008)
* The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt (2000)
* Hannah Arendt: The Recovery of the Public World (1991)
* The Meaning of Hannah Arendt: Essays in Political Thought (1989)
* Of Politics and Prose (1987)
* Literature and Technology (1979)