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Welcome! I am a lecturer in the Program on Ethics, Politics, and Economics (EP&E) and Department of Political Science at Yale University, and I served as the Director of Undergraduate Studies of the EP&E Program for the 2024-25 academic year. I am also a fellow at the Elm Institute. My research and teaching interests include the history of political and economic thought, the intellectual origins of conservatism and liberalism, constitutional theory and practice, the philosophical dimensions of political economy, business ethics, and black political thought. The guiding theme of my scholarship is the tension between liberty and order. I am the author of Commerce and Manners in Edmund Burke’s Political Economy(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020). My second book project, The Idea of Civil Society in Early Black Political Thought, is an examination of the idea of civil society in early black political thought, featuring Richard Allen, Absalom Jones, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Fannie Barrier Williams, Alexander Crummell, and W.E.B. Du Bois. The manuscript is under review at Cambridge University Press.

My latest academic articles and chapters address:

• Frederick Douglass’ constitutional theory and common good constitutionalism
• Eric Voegelin’s engagement with the idea of property in American constitutional law
• Adam Smith’s imperial political and economic thought
• The political philosophy of taxation from the perspectives of Churchill, Burke, Oakeshott, Kirk, and Nisbet

My latest popular articles are:

• “What Fathers Could Learn from Papa Bear.” National Review. June 15, 2025.
• “Understanding the Commercial Republic.” Law & Liberty. June 30, 2025.

I also have forthcoming articles and chapters on:

• Conservative thinkers’ interpretations of Adam Smith.
• The influence of Burke in the thought of Keynes and Hayek.

I received the Buckley Institute’s 2024 Lux et Veritas Faculty Prize, which “recognizes a Yale faculty member who actively fosters intellectual diversity for students in and out of the classroom;” the 2024 Heritage Foundation Freedom and Opportunity Academic Prize, which awards scholars conducting research “related to freedom, opportunity, and traditional American values”; and the 2020 winner of the Acton Institute’s Novak Award, which is awarded annually to one young scholar conducting research on the connection between liberty and virtue. I am married to my college sweetheart and have two young daughters (with a third on the way!). In my free time I enjoy rooting for Boston professional sports teams, playing Scrabble and chess, and beating his students at pickup basketball.