Jeffrey C. Isaac is James H. Rudy Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, where he has taught for the past 30 years. He recently stepped down from an eight-year tenure as editor in chief of Perspectives on Politics: A Political Science Public Sphere. He has published four books, edited or co-edited two anthologies, and published over 75 articles and essays. He is a contributing editor to Dissent magazine, and he writes regularly for Public Seminar, an online platform and blog published by the New School for Social Research.