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At times, he gives off the air of a professor, donning blue blazers and short-sleeved button-down shirts as he quotes the political theorist Hannah Arendt.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

John Spargo, a self-educated British stonemason who emigrated to New York in 1901, became an unlikely political theorist of the movement.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2025

Donald Trump’s name appears on the first page of Italian political theorist Alberto Toscano’s slender but challenging new book, and hardly at all after that.

From Salon • Jan. 5, 2025

Michael Sandel, a Harvard political theorist, wrote a book that assailed meritocracy, “The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good?”

From New York Times • Jul. 8, 2023

Much, consequently, as a political theorist may be interested in some ideal plan of American national organization, it will be of little benefit under existing conditions to enter into such a discussion.

From The Promise of American Life by Croly, Herbert David