For many years he has edited the Tolstoy Studies Journal, the only academic periodical devoted to Tolstoy. He also pursues an active research agenda, and is at work on a book entitled Resistance is Futile but No-Resistance Might Work: The Antistatist Politics of Leo Tolstoy. He feels that he received a marvelous education at Northwestern, with remarkable faculty support that continues to this day. His "first readers" for new research are Andrew Wachtel and Saul Morson.