Stephen Holmes is the Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law at NYU Law School and faculty co-director of the Center on Law and Security. He holds a BA from Denison University, and an MA, MPhil, and a PhD from Yale University. He specializes in the history and recent evolution of liberalism and anti-liberalism in Europe, democracy and economic liberalization after communism, and the difficulty of combating international terrorism within the bounds of the US Constitution and the rule of law. His most recent book is The Light that Failed: A Reckoning (with Ivan Kratsev, Penguin, 2020), a work of political psychology that argues that the current populist xenophobia that began in Eastern Europe stems resentment at the post-1989 imperative to become Westernized. Holmes is also the author of The Beginning of Politics: Power in the Biblical Book of Samuel, (with Moshe Halbertal, Princeton, 2017), The Matador’s Cape: America’s Reckless Response to Terror, (Cambridge University Press, 2007), The Cost of Rights: Why Liberty Depends on Taxes, (with Cass R. Sunstein, Norton, 1999), Passions and Constraint: On the Theory of Liberal Democracy, (University of Chicago Press, 1995), The Anatomy of Antiliberalism, (Harvard University Press, 1993) and Benjamin Constant and the Making of Modern Liberalism, (Yale University Press, 1984). He has published widely in the US and throughout Europe, including in Foreign Policy, The Guardian, London Review of Books, and Project Syndicate. Holmes is the recipient of Guggenheim, Fulbright, and Carnegie fellowships, among others. He was previously in Berlin as a member of the Wissenshaftskolleg in 1991-92, and is a current member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences and the New York Council on Foreign Relations.