Contributor Bios

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Benjamin David is a PhD student in political theory. A Georgia native, he has lived in Washington, DC since 2010. He is a co-editor of beyondthegop.com alongside former classmate Kelse Hillery.

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Kelse Hillery is a law student at Cornell University and a co-editor of beyondthegop.com.

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Edmund Babbitt is a student of political philosophy with a specific concentration in democratic theory.  Philosophically, Babbitt is aligned with the conservative tradition represented by thinkers including Edmund Burke, Irving Babbitt, Robert Nisbet, Peter Viereck and Russell Kirk.  Currently, Babbitt is engaged in the project of formulating a conservative response to the challenges of contemporary liberal democracy.

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Lucie Troumouse is a Midwestern girl living in D.C. while she labors at the Sisyphean task of becoming learned.  She is most interested in the connection between the pre-political and the criterion of reality.

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Joe Ptak

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Chuck O’Shea is studying for his doctorate in political theory. He attributes the foundations of his intellectual and imaginative development to his early experiences growing up on a farm in a rural western state not far from logging country.

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The Lancastrian is just your average Pennsylvania Dutchman trying to reconcile the traditional and the radical inherent in anabaptism.

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John David

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Brian Douglass lives in St. Louis and enjoys studying and writing on economics, history and theology.

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Emile

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Radagast

It is with considerable enthusiasm that I introduce myself to the community of Beyond the GOP.com as both a reader and fellow traveler in the defense of a better conservatism, a more humane economy, greater liberty, stronger local and state government, fidelity to the letter and spirit of the U.S. Constitution, and of the pursuit of truth.  All that you need to know about me is that I am first and foremost a Christian with an ecumenical background, a father, an academic with considerable exposure to the fields of literary theory, political philosophy, theology, environmental thought, and history, and that I am an American.