Articles
Published/Forthcoming
"Slavery and Oratory: Frederick Douglass in the History of Rhetoric," American Political Science Review (First View Online)
"The Rhetorical Roots of Du Bois's Double Consciousness," History of Political Thought (forthcoming)
"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 - under contract)
"Introduction" (with Giuseppe Ballacci) in Populism, Demagoguery, and Rhetoric in Historical Perspective, ed. Giuseppe Ballacci and Rob Goodman (Oxford University Press - under contract)
"Advising Trump," in Political Advice: Past, Present, and Future, ed. Jacqueline Rose and Colin Kidd (I.B. Tauris, 2021)