Published/Forthcoming
"Slavery and Oratory: Frederick Douglass in the History of Rhetoric," American Political Science Review 117(4) (2023): 1202-14
"The Rhetorical Roots of Du Bois's Double Consciousness," History of Political Thought 44(3) (2023): 577-604
"Plato the Novelist: The Family Saga in Republic 8-9," Polity 55(3) (2023): 519-43
"Populism as Form and Content: Toward a Holistic Approach," Populism 6(1) (2023): 1-27
"Preaching to the Choir? Rhetoric and Identity in a Polarized Age" (with Samuel Bagg), Journal of Politics 84(1) (2022): 511-24
"'I Tremble with My Whole Heart': Cicero on the Anxieties of Eloquence," European Journal of Political Theory 20(4) (2021): 698-718
"'The Low Principles of Jurisprudence': Legal Indeterminacy in Edmund Burke's Impeachment of Warren Hastings," The Review of Politics 82(3) (2020): 459-83
"The Deliberative Sublime: Edmund Burke on Disruptive Speech and Imaginative Judgment," American Political Science Review 112(2) (2018): 267-79
"The Advisor: Counsel, Concealment, and Machiavelli's Voice," Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory 20(2) (2017): 200-23
"Doux Commerce, Jew Commerce: Intolerance and Tolerance in Voltaire and Montesquieu," History of Political Thought 37(3) (2016): 530-55
"Humility Pills: Building an Ethics of Cognitive Enhancement," The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 39(3) (2014): 258-78
"Cognitive Enhancement, Cheating, and Accomplishment," Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 20(2) (2010): 145-60
Invited Contributions
“Book Symposium: Words on Fire: Eloquence and Its Conditions” (with Joy Connolly, Matthew Landauer, Cary J. Nederman, and Torrey Shanks), The Review of Politics (forthcoming)
“Review: The Ideology of Political Reactionaries by Richard Shorten,” The Review of Politics 85(3) (2023): 429-31
Chapters in Edited Volumes
"'Naked' Speech in Late Republican Rome," in Populism, Demagoguery, and Rhetoric in Historical Perspective, ed. Giuseppe Ballacci and Rob Goodman (Oxford University Press, 2024)
"Introduction" (with Giuseppe Ballacci) in Populism, Demagoguery, and Rhetoric in Historical Perspective, ed. Giuseppe Ballacci and Rob Goodman (Oxford University Press, 2024)
"Advising Trump," in Political Advice: Past, Present, and Future, ed. Jacqueline Rose and Colin Kidd (I.B. Tauris, 2021)