Dennis Carl Rasmussen
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Dennis Carl Rasmussen

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Dennis C. Rasmussen is a political theorist at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. His books include *The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought*, which was shortlisted for the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award and named a book of the year in The Guardian, Bloomberg, Project Syndicate, Australian Book Review, and Five Books; *Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's Founders*, which was named a best politics book of the year in the Wall Street Journal; and *Frederick Douglass's American Founding: How the Nation's Fiercest Critic Embraced the Constitution*, which is forthcoming in September 2026. He lives in Cazenovia, New York.
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