Announcing Our New Contributing Editor: Jedediah Purdy

Announcing Our New Contributing Editor: Jedediah Purdy

Please join us in welcoming Jedediah Purdy to Dissent’s masthead as a contributing editor! We’re thrilled to have him on board. Read all of his articles for Dissent here, and don’t forget to help welcome him on Twitter. —The Editors

Jedediah Purdy (@jedediahspurdy) is Everett Professor of Law at Duke, where he teaches environmental and constitutional law, legal theory, and political thought. He has been a visiting faculty member at Yale, Harvard, and Georgetown, among others. Recently his scholarship has focused on the significance of economic inequality and power for law and on the role the concept of neoliberalism might play in legal thought.

He published After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene in 2015. His four previous books are For Common Things (1999), Being America (2002), A Tolerable Anarchy (2009), and The Meaning of Property (2010). His books have been reviewed in the New York Times, New York Review of Books, Harper’s, the Washington Post, the LA Times, and the LA Review of Books, among others.

Besides Dissent, he has written for n+1, the LA Review of Books, the New York Times op-ed page and book review, Democracy, and the Atlantic. He is a frequent contributor to the web site of the New Yorker. His 2014 n+1 essay, “The Accidental Neoliberal,” was selected as a Notable Essay in the 2015 Best American Essays collection.