Gregory Collins

Gregory M. Collins is a Lecturer in the Program on Ethics, Politics, and Economics and Department of Political Science at Yale University. He is the author of Commerce and Manners in Edmund Burke’s Political Economy (Cambridge University Press, 2020). His scholarly and teaching interests include political theory, the intellectual origins of liberalism and conservatism, the philosophical and ethical foundations of capitalism, constitutional theory and practice, and African-American political thought. In addition to Burke, Greg has published scholarly articles on Adam Smith, Aristotle, Frederick Douglass, F.A. Hayek, John Maynard Keynes, Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, Britain’s East India Company, and the political philosophy of taxation. His popular writings can be found in Fusion, Law & Liberty, Modern Age, National Affairs, National Review, and University Bookman.

Greg received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Politics from The Catholic University of America in 2017 and his B.A. in Political Science from UMass Amherst in 2009. He is married to his college sweetheart and has two young daughters (with a third on the way!). In his free time Greg enjoys rooting for Boston professional sports teams, playing Scrabble and chess, and beating his students at pickup basketball.