Book:
Liberal States, Authoritarian Families: Childhood and Education in Early Modern Thought (Oxford University Press, 2021). 

• Reviewed in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Examiner, Journal of School Choice, Perspectives on Politics, First Things, History of Education Quarterly

•  Featured on New Books Network, Thinking in Public, Political Theory Review, Madison's Notes

Articles and Chapters:

• ​"Against Ventriloquizing Children: How Students’ Rights Disguise Adult Culture Wars," Yale Law Journal Forum 143, Oct. 2024.
• "Our Inescapable Meritocracy," in Renewing America's Civic Compact, eds. McNamara and Shelley (Lexington Books, 2023).
• "There Is No Such Thing as a Banned Book: Censorship, Authority, and the School Book Controversies of the 1970s," American Political Thought 12 (2023), 1-26.
  • ​Featured on The American Idea
• “Why Not Universal Homeschooling? Locke and the Liberal Objection to Institutional Education” in The Beginning of Liberalism: Reexamining the Political Philosophy of John Locke, ed. Will R. Jordan (Mercer University Press, 2022).
• "Pork Eating Is Not a Reasonable Way of Life: Yeshiva Education vs. Liberal Educational Theory," in Religious Liberty and Education, eds. Bedrick, Greene, and Lee (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020).
  • Featured on: EdChoice, Cato Institute Book Forum
• “‘Contesting the Empire of Habit’: Habituation and Liberty in Lockean Education,” American Political Science Review 110 (2016), 547-558.
• “Educating for Liberty? Teachers and Civic Education,” in The Professions and Civic Life, ed. Gary Schmitt (Lexington Books, 2016).
• "The Hostile Family and the Purpose of the 'Natural Kingdom' in Hobbes's Political Thought," Review of Politics 77 (2015), 377-398.
• "'Producing a Reconciliation of Disinterestedness and Commerce': The Political Rhetoric of Education in the Early Republic," Barnard Prize Essay, History of Education Quarterly 52 (2012), 403-429.

​Reviews and Occasional Writing:

• Review of Exchange of Ideas: The Economy of Higher Education in America, American Political Thought, Summer 2025.
• Review of Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education, History of Education Quarterly, Fall 2025.
• Review of Aristocratic Education and the Making of the American Republic, American Political Thought, Spring 2025.
• "All Happy Families are Illiberal," Fusion, April 2025.
• "Don't Worry, Have Babies," The Hedgehog Review, Fall 2024.
• "An Infantilizing Double Standard for American College Students," The New York Times, September 2024.
• "The Coddling of the American Undergraduate," The Hedgehog Review, Spring 2024.
  • ​Reprinted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, March 2024.
• "Talent vs. Democracy," Fusion, September 2023.
• "The Satmar Option: Hasidic Judaism and the Future of Religious Liberty," The Hedgehog Review, Summer 2023.
• "The Age of Adolescence: Judy Blume and the Eternal Young Adult," The Point, May 2023.
• Review of Permanent Crisis: Humanities in a Disenchanted Age, History of Education Quarterly, Spring 2023.
• Review of On the Politics of Kinship, Perspectives on Politics, Spring 2023.
• "You're Not the Boss of Me," The Hedgehog Review, Autumn 2021.
• "After School Choice? The Eternal Return of the Public School," The Constitutionalist, May 2021.
• "A Tale of Two Educational Traditions," National Affairs, Spring 2021.
  • Featured on the National Affairs podcast, EdChoice
• "Reasonable Education," The Point, May 2020.
  • ​Featured on Doomer Optimism
• "Meritocracy's Discontents," The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 2019.
• "Liberalism Strikes Back," The Hedgehog Review, Summer 2019.
• "Raising Wunderkinder," The Hedgehog Review, Autumn 2018.
• "The Party of the University," The Point, October 2018.
  • Reprinted in The Chronicle of Higher Education as "Who Will Defend the University?", November 2018.
• "The Complex Marriage Complex," The Hedgehog Review, Autumn 2017.
• "A Rehearing for Rousseau," Law and Liberty, August 2017.
• "The Politics of Digital Shaming," The New Atlantis, Spring 2015.
• "Honesty: It's Absolutely the Best Policy (Sometimes)" in The Seven Deadly Virtues, ed. Jonathan Last (Templeton Press, 2014).
• “Machiavellian Self-Help,” National Affairs, Winter 2014.
• “Rumor Has It,” Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2012.
• “Herman Sinaiko: In memoriam,” The Midway Review, Autumn 2011.​
• “Slacking as Self-Discovery,” The New Atlantis, Fall 2010.
• “The Ivy League Lament,” The New Atlantis, Fall 2009/Winter 2010.
• “All Camped Out,” Doublethink Magazine, Fall 2009.
  • Reprinted in Signs of Life in the USA: Readings on Popular Culture for Writers, eds. Maasik and Solomon (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2011).
• “Ben Franklin’s Vision, Policy Review, April/May 2009.
• “The World Made New,” The New Atlantis, Summer 2008.
• “The Self-Made Man,” Doublethink Online, May 2008.
• “Science and Totalitarianism,” The New Atlantis, Fall 2007.​

Recorded Talks:

• "A Celebration of Harvey Mansfield," Government Department, Harvard University, October 2023.
• "Liberalism and the Family," LeFrak Forum Annual Conference, Michigan State University, May 2022.
• "Meritocracy and the Populist Response," SCETL Spring Conference: Renewing America's Civic Compact, Arizona State University, February 2022.
• "Hannah Arendt on Education," Enduring Interest Podcast, December 2021.
• "Liberal States, Authoritarian Families," Gary L. McDowell Institute Lecture Series, University of Richmond, October 2021.
• "Hating School: The Liberal Tradition in American Educational Thought," Program on Constitutional Government, Harvard University, April 2021.
• "Why Not Universal Homeschooling? Locke and the Liberal Objection to Institutional Education," John Locke and the Dawn of Liberalism Conference, Mercer University, November 2020.
• Panel Discussion of The Wealth of Persons with Fr. John McNerney, Institute for the Advanced Study of Culture (UVA), November 2019.
• "Sophie is Not Oppressed: Sex, Freedom, and Education in Rousseau's Emile," Harvard Political Theory Colloquium, February 2019.
• "The University Reconsidered," Conference on the 25th Anniversary of Allan Bloom's Closing of the American Mind, Harvard University, January 2013.