I first became interested in politics in high school. Growing up in a time of heightened partisan polarization led me to wonder how people with different backgrounds and commitments could come together to form a single polity. I did not have the terms yet, but I was basically interested in how liberal regimes deal with pluralism. I also had a wonderful U.S. Government teacher in my senior year who further piqued my interest in these kinds of questions and introduced me to such canonical texts as Aristotle’s Ethics and The Federalist Papers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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