Academic Work
Book
Postliberalism: The Politics of Virtue, Exile, or Enmity
With João Pinheiro da Silva. Under contract with Polity.
Research Publications
Published Articles
“Postliberalism: A Genealogy”
With João Pinheiro da Silva. Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 212 (Fall 2025), pp. 60–90.
“After Liberalism, After Fascism? A Look at the Postliberal Movement”
St Antony’s International Review 20, no. 1 (May 2025).
“Islamic Traditionalists: ‘Against the Modern World’?”
The Muslim World 113, no. 3 (September 2023).
Accepted Articles and Manuscripts in Advanced Review
“‘Orderly Reproduction’: Why Political Liberalism Favors Stable Two-Parent Families”
Philosophy & Public Affairs. Revised manuscript under review.
“From Mill to Marcuse? Academic Freedom After Liberalism”
Cosmos + Taxis. Accepted subject to revisions.
“When, If Ever, May States Induce Lawful Residents to Leave? The Ethics of ‘Remigration’”
Journal of Controversial Ideas. Accepted for publication.
Manuscripts Under Review
“No Alternatives? Liberal Theory, Regime Stability, and Traditionalist Dissent”
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. Revise and resubmit.
“Neutral Ends, Non-Neutral Means: Why Anti-Perfectionist Political Liberalism Permits the Promotion of Conceptions of the Good”
Moral Philosophy and Politics. Under review.
“Defective Religion and the Limits of Paternalism”
The American Journal of Jurisprudence. Under review.
“Nuclear Deterrence and Tragic Realism”
American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly. Under review.
Forthcoming Book Chapters
“Religion and the ‘Postliberal Order’”
In Handbook of the Religious, Moral and Spiritual Dimensions in Education, 2nd ed., section edited by Liam Gearon. Springer, forthcoming 2027.
“Islam and Liberalism”
In The Palgrave Handbook of Classical Liberalism, edited by Leslie Marsh. Palgrave, forthcoming 2027.
Review Essays and Book Reviews
Review of Mustafa Akyol, ed., No Compulsion in Religion? No Exceptions: Islamic Arguments for Religious Freedom
Journal of Islamic Studies, September 2026.
Review of Paul Kelly, Against Post-Liberalism: Why “Family, Faith and Flag” Is a Dead End for the Left
Perspectives on Politics, published online 25 May 2026.
“Conservative Ideas and Their Consequences”
History of European Ideas 52, no. 6 (May 2026).
Review of Gözde Hussain, Islamic Doctrines and Political Liberalism: Muslims’ Sincere Support
Journal of Islamic Studies 37, no. 2 (May 2026).
Edited Work
“Conservatism, Postliberalism, and Islam”
Guest editor, special issue of Cosmos + Taxis, forthcoming 2027. Contributors include Ferenc Hörcher, Sari Hanafi, and others.
Conference Papers and Invited Seminars
2026
“Nuclear Deterrence and Tragic Realism”
Natural Law and War, Pusey House, Oxford · June 2026
Watch the conference recording
Natural Law and War conference page
“Faith Without Force: Religious Tradition Against Theocratic and Secular Authoritarianism”
Dissenting Theology: Faith Against Authoritarianism, Birkbeck, University of London · June 2026
“Against Symbolic Liberalism: A Plea for Dialogical Sociology”
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies · 22 May 2026
Seminar with Professor Sari Hanafi and Professor Cécile Laborde.
“The Genealogy of Postliberalism”
Mathias Corvinus Collegium, Budapest · April 2026
“‘Orderly Reproduction’: Can a Liberal State Support Marriage?”
Political Theory Workshop, University of Amsterdam · March 2026
“A Genealogy of Postliberalism”
Pusey House, Oxford · March 2026
With John Milbank and Paul Kelly as discussants.
“Coercive Liberalism? Reinterpreting the Postliberal Critique of Liberalism”
Seventh International Winter School on Public Policy, Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, Doha · January 2026
2025
“Conservative Fusionism for the Postliberal Moment”
Learning from the Right Workshop, part of International Perspectives on Conservatism, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford · 11 December 2025
International Perspectives on Conservatism
“Is Liberalism a Threat to Religious Liberty?”
Debate with Andrew Koppelman and Philip Pilkington, Danube Institute, Budapest · December 2025
“American Fusionism and Middle East Religious Conflict”
Chapman University, California · September 2025
Presented with support from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.
“From Mill to Marcuse? The Postliberal Challenge to Academic Freedom”
Heterodox Academy Conference, New York City · June 2025
Academic Programmes Convened
Oxford Conservative Thought Reading Group
University of Oxford · 2024–26
I founded and convened a weekly term-time reading group devoted to conservative thinkers and intellectual traditions often omitted from mainstream political theory syllabi. The group also hosted invited seminars, including talks by Kevin Vallier on American fusionism and Matt Sleat on postliberalism.
Oxford Islam and Justice Programme
University of Oxford · 2024–26
I organised a programme of seminars exploring the Islamic intellectual tradition’s relationship to liberty, democracy, public reason, and natural law. The programme was supported by the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Green Templeton College, Oxford, and the Contemporary Islamic Studies Programme at the Middle East Centre of St Antony’s College, Oxford.
Selected recordings:
- Liberal Commitments, Islamic Commitments and Public Reason, with Mohammad Fadel
- Islam and Natural Law, with Ramon Harvey
- Islamic Law Beyond Fiqh, with Mohammed Allebhi
Selected Affiliations and Fellowships
Collins Center for Abrahamic Heritage Leadership Cohort
Acton University · June 2026
Selected by the Acton Institute’s Collins Center for Abrahamic Heritage for a multi-faith leadership cohort at Acton University, focused on interfaith cooperation, religious freedom, and public life.
Doctoral Research
DPhil in Political Theory
University of Oxford · 2026
My thesis, Postliberalism and Its Discontents: Responding to Liberalism’s New Critics, examined the claim that liberal societies tend towards the coercive imposition of progressive conceptions of human flourishing.
The thesis was supervised by Paul Billingham and examined by Tom Simpson and Kevin Vallier.