Professor of government at Georgetown University. An associate editor of Modern Age since 1981, he is also editor of The Political Science Reviewer, an annual volume founded in 1971 that features important scholarly articles by and about conservative intellectuals. He has published widely, including a definitive study of the impact of The Federalist on American political theory and practice, and has edited such works as Liberalism Versus Conservatism (1966) and Freedom and Virtue: The Conservative/Libertarian Debate (1984). Carey's The Basic Symbols of the American Political Tradition (1970), co-authored with Willmoore Kendall, is considered "a major reassessment of the traditional American concepts of self-government."