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He writes widely in the history of political philosophy, and his publications on classical, modern, and contemporary political philosophy have appeared in both scholarly and popular publications. He has held fellowships from the Civitas Institute, the Tocqueville Program for Inquiry into Religion and American Public Life at the University of Notre Dame, and from the Program for the Study of the Western Heritage at Boston College. He is the author of聽<em>Heidegger and Politics: The Ontology of Radical Discontent</em>. He is a co-founder of the聽<a href="https://politicalthought.org/">Association for the History of Political Thought</a>, an academic organization devoted to the study of the History of Political Thought. He received an M.A. from Carlton College and Ph.D. at the University of Notre Dame.</p> </div></div></div></div></section><section class='people-stats no-padding standard-margin watcher'><div class="inset standard-width split-1-3 v-top"><div class='side'><div class='wsywig-content'><h5>EDUCATION</h5><p>M.A. from Carlton College</p> <p>Ph.D. at the University of Notre Dame</p> <p> </p> <div></div></div></section><section class='split-section no-padding no-margin watcher'><div class="inset standard-width split-half v-mid stack-normal"><div class='insert'><div class='side'><div class='wsywig-content'><div class='image-wrapper'><img width="580" height="370" src="https://civicleadership.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Civitas_HeroImages-3-1.png" class="attachment-large size-large" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://civicleadership.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Civitas_HeroImages-3-1.png 580w, 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