Jake joined the Liberalism Rekindled Project in the summer of 2024, after completing a Ph.D. in Philosophy at New York University, and long after completing a Ph.D. in Politics (Political Theory) at Princeton University. His dissertation at NYU examined the nature and moral significance of social status and social hierarchy, while his dissertation at Princeton argued that democratic participation can constitute a genuine form of autonomy; the core ideas from the latter were subsequently published as “The Possibility of Democratic Autonomy” (Philosophy and Public Affairs, 2022; co-authored with Adam Lovett). He has also published (with Jake Nebel and Cian Dorr) on comparability and incomparability in ethics, epistemology, and elsewhere. While with the Liberalism Rekindled project, he plans to work on the relation between liberal principles and democratic institutions under realistic conditions, and on the moral significance of power relations.