Benjamin Studebaker

Political Theorist, Valparaiso, Indiana, US

Benjamin Studebaker is an American political theorist with a PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK. He is the author of The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way Is Shut (Palgrave, 2023) and Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming, November 2024).

Written by Benjamin Studebaker

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How to be excellent

Plato and Aristotle can help you resist conventional worldly success, direct your energy and find your own highest calling

by Benjamin Studebaker