He received his B.A. from Trinity College (Hartford, CT) and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate University. Before planting himself amidst the interminable cornfields of central Illinois, he resided in New York where he was Associate Director for Academic Affairs at Columbia University and an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Baruch College (City University of New York). His recent publications include “What Hath Man Wrought: Utopian Dreams and Delusions” in Crisis and Renewal of Civilization: The 21st Century Crisis of Ideas and Character, ed. Marek Celinski (2015), “‘One Jew More or Less – What Does It Matter?’ Nietzsche on the Jewish Question” in Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, Vol. 34 No. 2 (Winter 2016) and "The Utopian Animal" (The Fortnightly Review - August 2017). He recently completed an article on Thomas More's Utopia.