Dr. David Corey

Professor, Baylor University

Dr. David Corey teaches political philosophy in the Honors College and Department of Political Science at Baylor University. He is one of few conservatives to have survived an undergraduate education at Oberlin College & Conservatory of Music, where he rather eccentrically studied ancient Greek and the tuba. After Oberlin, he studied Law for a soul-searching year at Old College in Edinburgh, worked unhappily as a stockbroker in Detroit, Baltimore, and New Orleans, and then finally settled into a PhD in Political Science at Louisiana State University, where he also benefited from a Weaver Fellowship through ISI. Corey is the author of The Sophists in Plato’s Dialogues (SUNY, 2015) and The Just War Tradition (ISI, 2012). He’s written more than a dozen articles in scholarly journals on major figures in the history of political philosophy. And he is currently working on a book about the way Americans understand the meaning of politics.