Articles

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 86(1) (2024): 93-114

• “Review: Power and Persuasion in Cicero’s Philosophy, edited by Nathan Gilbert, Margaret Graver, and Sean McConnell,” Journal of Roman Studies 114 (2024): 176-77

• “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" and "Conclusion" (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)