This site helps me explore noting as a practice.

I've been thinking a lot lately about critical liberalism and integrative liberal democracy.

Most of my writing deals with liberation of one kind or another. Here's why. If political theory is your thing, you might also enjoy this little thought experiment on freedom.

You can find the site's archive here.

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Publications

2022 — “Three General Wills in Rousseau”
The Review of Politics
Recovers the evolution of Rousseau’s general will and its relationship to democratic deliberation

Public Scholarship

2010–2013 — Founding Editor, The Art of Theory
Created an open-source online quarterly of political thought, with interviews and contributions from Michael Walzer, Danielle Allen, Quentin Skinner, Ryan Hanley, Patrick Riley and more. Edited with Teresa Bejan, Gordon Arlen, and Jonathan Bruno.

Education

University of Cambridge (Jesus College)
2023–Present
Ph.D. Candidate, Politics and International Studies (POLIS)

Brown University
2009–2011
M.A., Political Science

University of Chicago
2007–2008
M.A., Social Sciences

Drury University
2003–2007
B.A., Political Science
B.A., Communications
Summa cum laude
Pi Sigma Alpha