JASON BRENNAN (Ph.D., 2007, University of Arizona) is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Research, at Brown University, and a member of the Political Theory Project, an interdisciplinary research center at Brown. He specializes in political philosophy, ethics, and metaethics. His current research is on democratic theory, voting ethics, and the political liberties He is developing a new liberal, pluralistic theory of civic virtue that emphasizes the public value of private, non-political activity. Together with David Schmidtz, he is the author of A Brief History of Liberty, published by Wiley-Blackwell in 2010. His second book, The Ethics of Voting, will be published by Princeton University Press in March 2011.