He has been a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow and has been on the editorial board of Hume Studies and Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture.
[5] He supports the compact theory of the United States, with its concomitant provisions for corporate resistance, nullification, and secession.
"[8] Livingston was a member of the League of the South's Institute for the Study of Southern Culture and History, but left the group in the early 2000s.
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), "Livingston told the Report that he was put off by the group’s racism and other 'political baggage'".
[1] According to its website, the Institute is "an association of scholars in higher education devoted to a critical study of what is true and valuable in the Southern tradition."