Jason Kuznicki, PhD

Editor-in-Chief

Jason Kuznicki serves as editor-in-chief of Liberalism.org. He is the author of Technology and the End of Authority: What Is Government For?, which surveys Western political theory from a critical point of view, and has published widely on gender, history, and how technology shapes individual and social choice. He holds a Ph.D. in intellectual history from Johns Hopkins University.

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Aaron Ross Powell

Senior Director of Liberal Projects

Aaron Ross Powell is the Senior Director of Liberal Projects at IHS, where he leads the teams behind Liberalism.org and coalition work within the pro-democracy ecosystem. He hosts The Liberalism.org Show and writes about political ethics and the practices, perspectives, and values of liberalism.

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Jason S. Canon

Director of Public Scholarship

In addition to hosting the Ideas in Progress podcast for Liberalism.org, Jason directs efforts at IHS to make scholarship accessible and useful for the wider public. In his spare time, he’s completing a PhD in political theory at the University of Cambridge. He occasionally writes at uncanonical.net.

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Joshua Eakle

Senior Director of Communications

Joshua Eakle serves as Senior Director of Communications at IHS, where he leads brand strategy, audience growth, and external communications for Liberalism.org. He is the former Global Marketing Director of Students For Liberty, where he oversaw go-to-market operations and the programming behind their annual LibertyCon conference.

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Radley Balko

Radley Balko is an independent researcher and writer on civil liberties and criminal justice. He is the author of two books: The Rise of the Warrior Cop and The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist. His work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, Playboy, The Huffington Post, and Reason, among many others, and as a regular column in The Washington Post.

His work has won several journalism awards, including the L.A. Press Club’s Journalist of the Year, the NACDL Champion of Justice Award, the Innocence Project’s Journalism Award, and the Deadline Club award for feature writing, for his investigation into the Little Rock police union’s ugly campaign against a reformist police chief. Most recently he won the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award.

Balko holds a B.A. in journalism and political science from Indiana University Bloomington.

Janet Bufton

Janet Bufton is a writer, editor, and speaker based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

In 2006, she co-founded and still works with the Institute for Liberal Studies, a Canadian educational nonprofit dedicated to encouraging discussion of classical liberal ideas. She also sits on the advisory board of the World Anti-Extremism Network. Bufton is the co-author, with Tom G. Palmer, of an FAQ on the far right, and with Sarah Skwire of the #WealthOfTweets project. Bufton is an editor for the Econlib websites. Her education and consulting work has focused on international trade, regulation, and economic growth.

Her writing focuses on the application of liberal ideas to contemporary problems and has been published in outlets including Econlib, Liberal Currents, The UnPopulist, The Hub Canada, and AdamSmithWorks. Her writing is collected at JanetBufton.ca.

Michael C. Munger

Michael C. Munger is Pfizer,Inc./Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. University Distinguished Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University.

He received his Ph.D. in Economics at Washington University in St. Louis in 1984. Following appointments at Dartmouth College, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Munger moved to Duke in 1997. He was Chair of the Political Science Department from 2000 through 2010. He has won three University-wide teaching awards (the Howard Johnson Award, an NAACP “Image” Award for teaching about race, and admission to the Bass Society of Teaching Fellows). Munger’s books include Choosing in Groups, coauthored with his son, Kevin Munger, and The Thing Itself, both in 2015, and Tomorrow 3.0 in 2018.

His most recent book, published in 2021 by IEA, addresses the platform economy, and is entitled The Sharing Economy.

Sarah Skwire

Sarah Skwire is a Senior Program Officer at Liberty Fund, Inc., a nonprofit educational foundation. She researches and writes on a wide variety of topics, often focusing on the intersection of literature, liberty, and economics.

Sarah has published a range of academic articles on subjects from Shakespeare to zombies and the broken window fallacy, and her work has appeared in journals as varied as Religions; Literature and Medicine; The George Herbert Journal; and The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. She has written frequently for FEE, the Fraser Institute, and other print and digital outlets. Her work on literature and economics has also appeared in Reason, Newsweek, The Freeman and Cato Unbound. She teaches regularly for the Tikvah Fund. She has been featured on podcasts such as Economic Rockstars and Imaginary Worlds.

She graduated with honors in English from Wesleyan University, and earned her MA and PhD in English from the University of Chicago.

Ilya Somin

Ilya Somin is Professor of Law at George Mason University and B. Kenneth Simon Chair in Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute.

He is the author of Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom (Oxford University Press, rev. ed., 2022), Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government is Smarter (Stanford University Press, rev. ed. 2016), and The Grasping Hand: Kelo v. City of New London and the Limits of Eminent Domain (University of Chicago Press, 2015). Somin has also published articles in a variety of popular press outlets, including The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, CNN, The Atlantic, and USA Today. He is a regular contributor to the popular Volokh Conspiracy law and politics blog, affiliated with Reason magazine.

Matt Zwolinski

Matt Zwolinski is a political philosopher at the University of San Diego who teaches and writes about issues at the intersection of philosophy, politics, economics, and law. He is director of the University of San Diego’s Center for Ethics, Economics, and Public Policy, co-director of USD’s Institute for Law and Philosophy, and a Senior Fellow at the Niskanen Center.

Matt writes and speaks regularly on topics such as price gouging, sweatshop labor, libertarian political theory, and universal basic income. His recent books include The Individualists: Radical, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism (Princeton 2023, with John Tomasi), Universal Basic Income: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford 2023, with Miranda Perry Fleischer) and Exploitation: Perspectives from Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (2024, edited with Ben Ferguson).