Evan Cree Gee is a dissertation fellow at the Civitas Institute and a Ph.D. candidate in UT-Austin’s government department, where he focuses on political philosophy and American politics. For his dissertation, he is examining the character of factional conflict between elites and the masses in classical and early modern political philosophy, in particular in Aristotle and Machiavelli. He earned an A.B. in political science at Kenyon College, after which he spent two years working at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.