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I am a fourth-year graduate student studying political theory, having studied political philosophy at Yale (BA 2002) and Modern History at Balliol College, Oxford (DPhil expected 2009). I'm broadly interested in the history of political thought; liberalism; British political thought; the concept of freedom/liberty; theories of the purposes and limits of politics; and the ethics of political action. When I do focus on anything in particular, it tends to be on the thought of Isaiah Berlin, and on 20th century political thought. My current work looks at the ethical and political problems posed for liberal political theory by anti-liberal and extremist conceptions of politics.