Stephen Holmes

Stephen Holmes (born February 21, 1948)

He received a B.A. in 1969 from Denison University and a Ph.D. in 1976 from Yale University, where he won the John Addison Porter Prize for that year. After joining faculty at the University of Chicago 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 Princeton University 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, 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 Beginning of Politics : Power in the Biblical Book of Samuel (Princeton University Press, 2017) The Light that Failed. A Reckoning (2019, with Ivan Krastev, Allen Lane/Penguin, ) - on illusionary expectations of liberalism translated into German