He took his A.B. in history and Ph.D. in government, both from Harvard. He has held fellowships at the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study and Harvard’s Program on Constitutional Government, and has taught at the College of the Holy Cross. His work appears in History of Political Thought, the Review of Metaphysics, Perspectives on Political Science, Modern Age, the Claremont Review of Books, the Intercollegiate Review, the University Bookman and First Things.