David Schmidtz is Editor of Social Philosophy & Policy.
Allen Buchanan is Laureate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. He specializes in moral, political, and legal philosophy and is a fellow of the Hastings Center, an independent bioethics research institution. He has published most recently Our Moral Fate: Evolution and the Escape from Tribalism (2020); The Evolution of Moral Progress: A Biocultural Theory (2018; coauthored with Russell Powell); Institutionalizing the Just War (2018); The Heart of Human Rights (2013); Better Than Human: The Promise and Perils of Biomedical Enhancement (2012); and dozens of articles in law, philosophy, and bioethics journals and collections of essays.
Elizabeth Levinson is a Ph.D. candidate in social and political philosophy at the University of Arizona. Her research focuses on ideology, oppression, social complexity, and social norms.
Virgil Henry Storr is the Vice President of Academic and Student Programs at the Mercatus Center; a Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics, George Mason University; and the Don C. Lavoie Senior Fellow in the F. A. Hayek Program in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Mercatus Center, George Mason University. His research has focused on Austrian economics, culture and economic development, markets and morality, post-disaster community recovery, and the social and economic history of the Bahamas. He is the author of Enterprising Slaves & Master Pirates: Understanding Economic Life in the Bahamas (2004) and Understanding the Culture of Markets (2012) and is the coauthor of Community Revival in the Wake of Disaster: Lessons in Local Entrepreneurship (2015; with Stefanie Haeffele and Laura E. Grube) and Do Markets Corrupt Our Morals? (2019; with Ginny Seung Choi).
Michael R. Romero is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Economics, George Mason University, and a program manager in Academic and Student Programs with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. His research is focused on Austrian economics, culture, and economic sociology.
Nona Martin Storr is a senior affiliated scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Her scholarly work has focused on the political and social histories of disadvantaged communities. She holds a Ph.D. in History from George Mason University and an M.A. in Public History (with an emphasis in oral history) from Loyola University Chicago.
Molly Brigid McGrath is Professor of Philosophy at Assumption University in Worcester, Massachusetts, where she also directs the D’Amour Center for Teaching Excellence. Her teaching and writing interests include Husserlian phenomenology, the history of philosophy (especially Aristotle), social and political philosophy, social ontology, philosophy and film, and liberal education.
Jonathan Bendor is the Walter and Elise Haas Professor of Political Economy and Organizations at the Stanford Business School. His research focuses on models of bounded rationality, organizational problem-solving, and the evolution of cooperation. He is author of Bounded Rationality and Politics (2010) and a coauthor of A Behavioral Theory of Elections (2011; with Daniel Diermeier, David Siegel, and Michael Ting). Having recently joined Stanford’s new Doerr School of Sustainability, he is currently studying how people approach problems for which there may not be any good solutions. Bendor is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Edward Hall is a Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Sheffield, UK. His three main areas of research are political ethics, liberal political thought, and realist political theory. He is author of Value, Conflict, and Order: Berlin, Hampshire, Williams, and the Realist Revival in Political Theory (2020) and co-editor of Political Ethics: A Handbook (2022; with Andrew Sabl). He has published in many journals, including Journal of Politics, Political Studies, European Journal of Political Theory, Social Philosophy & Policy, Review of Politics, and Social Theory and Practice, and is currently writing a book on the contemporary significance of Judith Shklar’s liberalism of fear.
Aaron James is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. His research ranges over topics on the foundations of ethics, moral theory, money and trade, and political philosophy. He is the author of many articles in journals such as Journal of Moral Philosophy, Journal of International Political Theory, Ratio Juris, and Legal Theory. He has authored the book Fairness in Practice: A Social Contract for a Global Economy (2012) and coauthored Money from Nothing: Or, Why We Should Stop Worrying about Debt and Learn to Love the Federal Reserve (2020; with Robert Hockett).
Matt Sleat is a Reader in Political Theory at the University of Sheffield, UK. He has published widely across several areas of political theory in journals such as Political Theory, Review of Politics, and the European Journal of Political Theory. He is the author of Liberal Realism (2013) and editor of Politics Recovered: Realist Thought in Theory and Practice (2018). He is co-editor of the journal Political Studies and is currently working on a project on post-liberalism funded by a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship.
Adrian Blau is Professor of Politics in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. His Ph.D. combined empirical and normative aspects of electoral systems, and he still works on democratic theory and practice. Much of his research is on rationality and irrationality, including the work of Thomas Hobbes and of Jürgen Habermas. He has also published several articles and chapters on the methodology of history of political thought, including articles in the American Journal of Political Science and the Journal of Politics. He edited the first-ever textbook on political theory methods: Methods in Analytical Political Theory (2017). His current work involves bringing the social sciences and humanities closer together, partly by focusing on the logic of inference of experiments, as well as writing a book called Hobbes’s Failed Science of Politics and Ethics.
Colin Bird is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia. He is the author of The Myth of Liberal Individualism (1999), An Introduction to Political Philosophy (2006), and Human Dignity and Political Criticism (2021). His work on democratic theory, toleration, religion, and public reason has appeared in a variety of academic journals, including Ethics, Philosophy & Public Affairs, and Political Theory.
Brian Kogelmann is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at Purdue University and an Affiliated Fellow at the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Studies in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. His research lies at the intersection of ethics and political economy and his work uses the tools and methods of the social sciences to answer philosophical questions. He is the author of Secret Government: The Pathologies of Publicity (2021) and is working on a new book called Political Meritocracy in the 21st Century.
Brian Leiter is Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the Center for Law, Philosophy, and Human Values at the University of Chicago. His books include Nietzsche on Morality (2002); Naturalizing Jurisprudence (2007); Why Tolerate Religion? (2013); and Moral Psychology with Nietzsche (2019). He is presently finishing two books, a coauthored volume on Marx and a study of realism in political and legal theory entitled From a Realist Point of View.
Christopher Heath Wellman is Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis. He works primarily in ethics, specializing in political and legal philosophy. Wellman has advanced distinctive positions on core issues in political theory, including political legitimacy, the duty to obey the law, secession, immigration, and punishment. He has authored A Theory of Secession: The Case for Political Self-Determination (2005); Liberal Rights and Responsibilities (2014); and Rights Forfeiture and Punishment (2017). He is coauthor of Is There a Duty to Obey the Law? For & Against (2005; with A. John Simmons); A Liberal Theory of International Justice (2009; with Andrew Altman); and Debating the Ethics of Immigration: Is There a Right to Exclude? (2011; with Phillip Cole).
Enzo Rossi is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam and co-editor of the European Journal of Political Theory. He has published widely on legitimacy, democracy, ideology, and political realism. Much of his current research concerns how power distorts our understanding of social reality and what that says about the legitimacy of social and political institutions, a question he addresses from an epistemic rather than a moral point of view. Some of Rossi’s most recent articles can be found in the American Political Science Review and The Journal of Politics.
