Thanks for taking the time to visit my website. If you're not already familiar with me and my work, here's the basics:

In 1994, I founded the Shalem Center, a Jerusalem research institute that has done pioneering work in the fields of philosophy, political theory, Bible, Talmud, Jewish and Zionist history, Middle East Studies, archaeology, and economics. The Center's publishing arm, Shalem Press, is Israel's leading publisher of works of Western philosophy translated into Hebrew, and also publishes Azure magazine.

The Center has applied for accreditation to begin granting B.A. degrees. Once accredited, we'll become Shalem College, Israel's first liberal arts college.

I served as President of Shalem until 2002. At present, I'm the Center's Provost, which means I'm the academic head of the institution. I'm also a Senior Fellow in the Center’s Department of Philosophy, Political Theory and Religion (PPR), and head Shalem's project in Jewish Philosophical Theology.

My books include The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel’s Soul (Basic Books, 2000) and The Dawn: Political Teachings of the Book of Esther (Shalem Press, 2000), and I've written articles for newspapers and magazines such as The New York Times, The New Republic, Commentary, Azure, and Ha'aretz. I'm currently working on two books, The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2012); and Hume and the Science of Mind.

In addition, I write a series of dispatches on philosophy, Judaism, Israel and higher education called Jerusalem Letters. This year I was awarded the American Jewish Press Association's Simon Rockower Prize in the category of art criticism for my essay on the Coen brothers' A Serious Man ("Hollywood's Jewish Moment," March 2010), which appeared in Jerusalem Letters and then in an abridged version in Hadassah Magazine.

I'm also a member of the Board of Advisors of the John Templeton Foundation.

I graduated from Princeton with a B.A. in East Asian Studies in 1986, and completed my Ph.D. at Rutgers in Political Theory in 1993. I live in Jerusalem with my wife Yael Hazony and our nine children. I'm 47.