Stephen Holmes (born February 21, 1948) is the Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law at

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. He received a B.A. in 1969 from

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and a Ph.D. in 1976 from

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, where he won the

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for that year. After joining faculty at the

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as an Associate Professor of Political Science in 1985, Holmes became a tenured Professor of Political Science and Law at the university's law school in 1989. He joined the faculty at

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from 1997-2000 as a Professor of Politics before his present post.

Media commentary

In 2004, he was interviewed in the BBC documentary '' The Power of Nightmares - The Rise Of The Politics Of Fear''.

Selected publications

*''Benjamin Constant and the Making of Modern Liberalism'' (1984, Yale University Press, ) - on

Benjamin Constant Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque (; 25 October 1767 – 8 December 1830), or simply Benjamin Constant, was a Franco-Swiss political thinker, activist and writer on political theory and religion. A committed republican from 1795, he backed t ...

, translated into French *''The Anatomy of Antiliberalism'' (1993, Harvard University Press, ) - translated into German, Italian and Chinese *''Passions and Constraint: On the Theory of Liberal Democracy'' (1995, University of Chicago Press, ) - translated into Italian * ''The Cost of Rights: Why Liberty Depends on Taxes'' (1999, with Cass R. Sunstein, Norton, )- translated into Italian, Polish and Chinese *''The Matador’s Cape: America’s Reckless Response to Terror'' (2007, Cambridge University Press, ) *''The Light that Failed. A Reckoning'' (2019, with Ivan Krastev, Allen Lane/Penguin, ) - on illusionary expectations of

liberalism Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality and equality before the law."political rationalism, hostility to autocracy, cultural distaste for c ...

translated into German

References

External links

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