He is the author of David Hume and the Politics of Enlightenment (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and of journal articles in the Review of Politics, Polity, and Perspectives on Political Science. He is the co-editor of Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver: Honoring the Work of Leon R. Kass (with Yuval Levin and Adam Shulman) and Human Dignity and Bioethics (with Edmund Pellegrino and Adam Schulman). He has an A.B. from the University of Chicago and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Duke University, has held fellowships with the Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard University and the American Enterprise Institute, and was on the staff of the President’s Council on Bioethics between 2007 and 2009.