He is currently a member of the faculty of Hillsdale College's Van Andel Graduate School of Government in Washington, DC.
[3] In 2022, he resigned from Saint Vincent to protest administrative actions following a campus uproar over a speaker invited to the Center.
He has appeared on the Glenn Beck television program to discuss his book Living Constitution, Dying Faith: Progressivism and the New Science of Jurisprudence.
[18] Meanwhile, traditionalist conservatives have denied Watson's claim that universal philosophical principles played an important role in the American founding.
[19] Watson has defended both natural rights philosophy and cultural traditions as essential elements of the American experience, and of a complete understanding of the U.S.