Stephen Taylor Holmes

Stephen Holmes's research centers on the history of European liberalism, the 1787 Constitution as a blueprint for continental expansion, the incoherence of the deep state in the Russian Federation, and the difficulty of combating international terrorism within the bounds of the Constitution and the rule of law. In 1988, he was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship to complete a study of the theoretical foundations of liberal democracy. He was named Carnegie Scholar in 2003 - 05 for his work on Russian legal reform. Besides numerous articles on the history of political thought, democratic and constitutional theory, state building in a post-Communist Russia, and the war on terror. Holmes has written several books, including The Cost of Rights: Why Liberty Depends on Taxes, co-authored with Cass Sunstein (1998), and The Matador's Cape: America's Reckless Response to Terror (2007). After receiving his PhD from Yale in 1976, Holmes taught briefly at Yale and Wesleyan universities before becoming a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University in 1978. He later taught a Harvard University, the University of Chicago, and Princeton before joining the faculty at NYU School of Law in 2000.