Benjamin Storey is a senior fellow in Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). He is concurrently a research fellow at the Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to coming to AEI, Dr. Storey served as Research Professor and Jane Gage Hipp Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Furman University, where he taught for seventeen years. He was the recipient of Furman’s highest award for undergraduate teaching, and the founding director of Furman’s Tocqueville Program.
Dr. Storey has been a visiting fellow at the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University, and the recipient of a “Enduring Questions” Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Dr. Storey’s writings have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and many other publications. He is the coauthor, with his wife, Jenna Silber Storey, of Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment (Princeton University Press, 2021). Together, the Storeys are working on a book titled, The Art of Choosing: How Liberal Education Should Prepare You for Life.