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Nicholas Buccola
Linfield University
Nicholas Buccola is professor of political science and the Elizabeth and Morris Glicksman Chair in Political Science at Linfield University. His work focuses on American political thought, especially regarding rights and justice. Buccola is the author of “The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America,” for which he received an Oregon Book Award. His writings have appeared in numerous scholarly journals as well as the New York Times, Salon, and Dissent. He is currently at work on a book that examines competing conceptions of freedom in the American civil rights and conservative movements.