Author, Lecturer, and Professor
Dr. Jules K. Whitehill Professor of Humanism and Ethics in the Department of Government at Claremont McKenna College.
Books: One Man’s Freedom: Goldwater, King, and the Struggle over an American Ideal, (Princeton University Press in October 2025, The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America, The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass: In Pursuit of American Liberty , The Essential Douglass: Writings and Speeches , and Abraham Lincoln and Liberal Democracy.