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George Kateb is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics, Emeritus; his field is political theory; he has written a handful of articles on issues in the Bill of Rights and constitutional law; his writings include Hannah Arendt: Politics, Conscience, Evil (1984); The Inner Ocean: Individualism and Democratic Culture (1992); Emerson and Self-Reliance (1994); 2d ed, 2002); and most recently, Patriotism and Other Mistakes (2007). At Princeton, he was formerly Director of the Program in Political Philosophy, Director of the Gauss Seminars, and Director of the University Center for Human Values.

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George Kateb is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics, Emeritus, at Princeton University.^[1] A staunch individualist, he has written scholarly works on Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Stuart Mill, and Hannah Arendt and on the ethical dimensions of the individual in a constitutional democracy. More recently he has turned his attention to what he sees as the increasing erosion of individual liberty wrought by the Bush administration and the poisonous influence of religious, ethnic and statist group identity on morality.

Kateb earned his A.B., A.M. and Ph.D. at Columbia University and was a Junior Fellow at Harvard University.^[2][3] He then taught at Amherst College for thirty years before joining the faculty at Princeton in 1987. As a member of the executive committee of the University Center for Human Values he was involved with the search committee that somewhat controversially appointed the noted Australian philosopher Peter Singer to a chair in bioethics at Princeton in 1999. Kateb is a member of

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