Welcome to my website. 

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I am a teacher in the Great Books tradition and a scholar of political philosophy and the history of political thought. I teach at the Departments of the Core Curriculum and Philosophy & Jewish Thought at Shalem College in Jerusalem, Israel's first and only liberal arts college (my Faculty Page can be accessed here). Previously, I was a Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago Divinity School and the College (2021-23), where I also received my PhD in August 2021.

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My current research engages Erich Auerbach, Ernst Jünger, Alexis de Tocqueville and Christopher Lasch on questions of regime and world order. My dissertation, “The 'New Jew' of Zionist Historiography: The Social Vision and Historical Imagination of Yitzhak Baer, Gershom Scholem, and Yehezkel Kaufmann” (2021), explored the image of man in the historical and political thought of three founders of Israeli historiography.

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Alongside my research, I lecture on the contemporary crisis of liberalism and the political and intellectual currents reshaping the Western world. I also write an occasional newsletter on the rise of political uniformity in the modern era, The Forest Passage Project.

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Before entering academic life, I served as an officer in the Israel Defense Forces (2005–09), where my last posting was as Head of the NATO and European Union Desk at the IDF Strategic Division.​