Benjamin Storey
Jack Miller Center Academic Advisory Council Member
Senior Fellow in the Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies Department,
American Enterprise Institute
Benjamin Storey is a senior fellow in Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). He is concurrently a research fellow at the Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin, and a Tocqueville scholar at Furman University, where he previously served as a research professor, Jane Gage Hipp Professor of Politics and International Affairs, and director of the Tocqueville Program. At AEI, he focuses on political philosophy, civil society, and higher education, and he is the co-organizer of a conference series on the future of the American university.
In 2016–17, Dr. Storey was a visiting fellow at the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. From 2010 to 2012, he was the director of a National Endowment for the Humanities “Enduring Questions” course development project. He has also taught at the Hertog Political Studies Program, the Tikvah Fund, and the William F. Buckley, Jr. Program at Yale.
Dr. Storey is the coauthor, with his wife, Jenna Silber Storey, of Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment (Princeton University Press, 2021). Together, the Storeys are working on a book titled, The Art of Choosing: How Liberal Education Should Prepare You for Life.
Dr. Storey’s work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, National Affairs, Humanities, the Journal of Politics, the Review of Politics, Perspectives on Political Science, Society, American Purpose, Law & Liberty, the New Atlantis, City Journal, the Claremont Review of Books, and First Things. He has lectured at Oxford University, Princeton University, the US Military Academy at West Point, American University, the University of Notre Dame, the University of Virginia, and the annual conference of the Institute for Classical Education.
He has a PhD and MA from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Research interests:
Political philosophy
Civil society
Higher education
