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Dennis C. Rasmussen

b. 1978

Dennis C. Rasmussen is a Professor of Political Science and the Hagerty Family Fellow at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, as well as co-director of SU’s Political Philosophy Program.

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He is the author of six books, including The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought, which was shortlisted for the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award; Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America’s Founders, which was named a best politics book of the year in the Wall Street Journal; and the forthcoming Frederick Douglass’s American Founding: How the Nation’s Fiercest Critic Embraced the Constitution.

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