Steven Teles

Steven Teles is Professor of Government and Policy, and the SNF Agora Institute, at the Johns Hopkins University, and Senior Fellow at the Niskanen Center. Teles co-authored The Captured Economy (with Brink Lindsey, Oxford, 2017), Never Trump: The Revolt of the Conservative Elites (with Robert Saldin, Oxford, 2020); Prison Break: Why Conservatives Turned Against Mass Incarceration (With David Dagan, Oxford, 2016); The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement: The Battle for Control of the Law (Princeton, 2008); and Whose Welfare: AFDC and Elite Politics (Kansas, 1996). He is the editor (with Brian Glenn) of Conservatism and American Political Development (Oxford, 2009) and (with Glenn Loury and Tariq Modood) Ethnicity, Social Mobility and Public Policy: Comparing the US and UK (Cambridge, 2005). His work has been featured in a number of outlets, including The Economist, National Affairs, The Public Interest, Democracy Journal, The American Prospect, The Nation, Washington Monthly, The American Interest, and The New Statesman.