About Jean Bethke Elshtain Jean Bethke Elshtain was Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School, and Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Chair in the Foundations of American Freedom at Georgetown University. Books by Jean Bethke Elshtain The Religious Sense New Revised Edition by (author) Luigi Giussani edited and translated by John E. Zucchi foreword by Jean Bethke Elshtain Democracy on Trial by (author) Jean Bethke Elshtain