To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.

My scholarship and teaching concern political philosophy, especially the themes of social ontology, human development, semiotics, jurisprudence, and the philosophy of education.  My books include:

Haunted by Paradise: A Philosopher’s Quest for Biblical Answers to Key Moral Questions (Cascade Books, 2021).

Your Whole Life: Beyond Childhood and Adulthood (Penn Press, 2020).

How to Think Politically: Sages, Scholars and Statesmen Whose Ideas Have Shaped the World (with Graeme Garrard) Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.

A Genealogy of Violence and Religion: René Girard in Dialogue (Sussex Academic, 2018)

The Philosophy of Customary Law (Oxford University Press, 2014)

The Philosophy of Positive Law: Foundations of Jurisprudence (Yale Press, 2005)

The Moral Economy of Labor: Aristotelian Themes in Economic Theory (Yale Press, 1993)
For other publications, see my CV.