Neco Donohue is a summer research fellow at the Civitas Institute and a Ph.D. student in UT-Austin’s government department. He is currently researching the promises and perils of liberalism, as well as its philosophic grounding. Through Montaigne and Montesquieu, Donohue hopes to articulate an account of liberalism’s merits and grounding that does not depend on modern natural rights. Prior to moving to Texas in 2022, Donohue worked for two years as the program manager of the Hertog Foundation after receiving a B.A. from American University.