Eric MacGilvray is professor of political science and (by courtesy) philosophy at Ohio State University, where he directs the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) major, co-directs the Civil Discourse for Citizenship program, and serves on the steering committee of the Center for Ethics and Human Values. His research and teaching interests center in modern and contemporary political thought, with an emphasis on the relationship between liberalism, republicanism, and democracy. He is the author of Liberal Freedom (Cambridge University Press, 2022), The Invention of Market Freedom (Cambridge University Press, 2011), and Reconstructing Public Reason (Harvard University Press, 2004), and his articles have appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, History of Political Thought, Journal of Political Philosophy, Political Theory, Social Philosophy and Policy, and a number of other journals.