Public Writing
“As His Big Conspiracy Crumbles, Beattie’s Star Continues to Rise in Trumpworld”
April 21, 2021. Essay for The Constitutionalist.
Part 1: Revisiting Why Liberalism Failed
Part 2: Distorted Methods, Disorienting History: Deneen on the Past, Present, and Future
Part 3: Perversity Squared: Deneen’s “Individualist Anthropology” and Anti-Political Denialism, and “Aristopopulist” Delusions
Part 4: Patrick Deneen’s Twin Depletions of Education and Freedom
October 26, 2019, for The Bulwark Online.
Book Manuscripts
Untethered: Reactionary Intellectuals and the Future of American Conservatism. Book under contract with Princeton University Press (trade side). Anticipated publication in 2025.
Rousseau and Nietzsche in Hades: Autobiographical Rhetoric and the Shaping of the Modern Self. Working book manuscript.
Academic Publications
“Johnathan O’Neill’s Conservative Thought and American Constitutionalism since the New Deal.” Book review for American Political Thought, 13.2, 2024.
“Forced to be Free? America’s “Posbliberals” on Freedom and Liberty.” In Far-Right Newspeak and the Future of Liberal Democracy, Jim McAdams and Sammuel Piccolo, London: Routledge, 2024.
“Nietzsche on Death and Dying.” For Political Philosophies of Aging, Dying, and Death. Forthcoming with Routledge, Spring 2021. Volume edited by Erin Dolgoy and Bruce Peabody.
“Rousseau’s Confessions: A Pattern for Living.” In The Rousseauian Mind. Cambridge University Press, 2019. Volume edited by Eve Grace and Christopher Kelly.
“Blind Injustice: Theorizing Anonymity and Accountability in Modern Democracies.” Polity, Vol. 48, Issue 3, July 2016. With Richard Boyd.
“The Philosopher Doth Protest Too Much: Rousseauian Enlightenment and the Rhetoric of Despair.” The Review of Politics, Vol. 75, Issue 3, Spring 2013.
“Xenophon’s Cyropaedia: Educating our Political Hopes.” The Journal of Politics, Vol. 74, Issue 3, July 2012.
