Books

Populism, Demagoguery, and Rhetoric in Historical Perspective (edited with Giuseppe Ballacci), Oxford University Press, 2024

Not Here: Why American Democracy Is Eroding and How Canada Can Protect Itself, Simon & Schuster Canada, 2023

• 2024 Shortlist, Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing

Words on Fire: Eloquence and Its Conditions, Cambridge University Press, 2022

• 2024 Shortlist, C.B. Macpherson Prize for best political theory book

A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age (with Jimmy Soni), Simon & Schuster, 2017

• 2019 IEEE Middleton Book Prize

• 2018 Axiom Awards, Silver Medal for Memoir/Biography

• 2017 Neumann Prize, British Society for the History of Mathematics

Rome’s Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar (with Jimmy Soni), Thomas Dunne, 2012