Nicholas Buccola is a writer, lecturer, and teacher who specializes in the area of American political thought. He is the Elizabeth and Morris Glicksman Chair in Political Science at Linfield University, and the author of: The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America (Princeton University, 2019) and The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass: In Pursuit of American Liberty (New York University Press, 2012). He is the editor of The Essential Douglass: Writings and Speeches (Hackett, 2016) and Abraham Lincoln and Liberal Democracy (University Press of Kansas, 2016).