Benjamin Schwabe is a summer research fellow at the Civitas Institute and a Ph.D. student in political theory at UT-Austin. His research explores the relationship between necessity and liberty in Niccolò Machiavelli’s political philosophy. He earned his B.A. from Michigan State University and his M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin. His other research interests include classical and early modern republicanism, the relationship between modern scientific and political thought, and political psychology.