Peter Feaver (BA Lehigh 1983; PhD Harvard 1990) is the Alexander F. Hehmeyer Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Duke University. His scholarly work is in the areas of American national security policy, civil-military relations, public opinion, and nuclear weapons; his most recent academic book is Paying the Human Costs of War (Princeton Press 2009, co-authored with Christopher Gelpi and Jason Reifler). He is also co-author (with Susan Wasiolek and Anne Crossman) of Getting the Best Out of College (Ten Speed, 2008), a how-to guide aimed at incoming undergraduates. He blogs at Planet War on washingtonpost.com and Shadow Government on foreignpolicy.com. He served in the Clinton White House in 1993-94 and the Bush White House in 2005-2007. He is an avid, aging, but utterly ungifted basketball player. He is married to Karen, and they are proud parents of three children.
Being an evangelical in my environment has made me bilingual in a way that my friends who are more squarely in the center of different tribal identities cannot be. Unlike many of my evangelical or my policy friends, I can “speak” academese. Unlike many of my academic or my policy friends, I can speak evangelicalese.
Receive our print magazine and get instant digital access to our current issue and our entire archive. Listen to longform essays, bookmark articles, save your reading location, and more.
When a pendulum swing becomes a wrecking ball.
SITE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT BY POLYMATH