Jason Blakely
Jason Blakely is Associate Professor of Political Science at Pepperdine University in California. A writer whose books and essays straddle deep divides of Left and Right, religious and secular, academic and popular, Blakely has been called “our finest critic of misplaced appeals to scientific authority in political life.”
His books on salvaging politics and the social sciences from the abuses of scientific authority include: We Built Reality (Oxford 2020), Interpretive Social Science (Oxford 2018), and most recently Lost in Ideology (Agenda 2024). He has also contributed to leading public venues like, Harper’s Magazine and The Atlantic. His writings have received accolades from luminaries, including Charles Taylor, David Bentley Hart, and Craig Calhoun.