Kody W. Cooper is UC Foundation Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He is the author of The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics: Political Theology, Natural Law, and the American Founding (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law (University of Notre Dame Press, 2018). His essays have appeared in various outlets including Newsweek, New Oxford Review, Public Discourse, Crisis, Law & Liberty, First Things, Return, and The Federalist. He lives with his wife and eight children in a house that was built during the pontificate of Blessed Pope Pius IX. He can be followed on Twitter @DrKodyCooper.