Bryan Garsten

Professor of Political Science and Humanities, Yale University

Bryan Garsten is Professor of Political Science and Humanities and the Faculty Director, Center for Civic Thought. His award-winning book, Saving Persuasion: A Defense of Rhetoric and Judgment, explores the history of political thought on rhetoric and argues for a politics of persuasion. In recent research he investigates fundamental tensions in the theory and practice of representative government and constitutional democracy, reflecting on Aristotle, Hobbes, Montesquieu, Rousseau, the Federalists, Benjamin Constant, and Marx, among others. His essay, “A Liberalism of Refuge,” was one of the Journal of Democracy’s most-read articles of 2024.