Brian A. Smith is a senior program officer at Liberty Fund. As a scholar, he has written and taught at the intersection of politics, international relations, and strategy. The author of many articles and reviews for peer-reviewed journals and magazines of ideas, Smith's work focuses on applying ideas from the history of political thought to perennial problems of politics. He is also an accomplished scholar of politics and literature, the author of Walker Percy and the Politics of the Wayfarer (2017) and co-editor of A Political Companion to Walker Percy (2013).