# Douglas Rasmussen **URL:** --- Douglas Rasmussen is a professor of philosophy at St. John’s University and co-author (along with Douglas J. Den Uyl) of several books on ethics and political philosophy including _Liberty and Nature: An Aristotelian Defense of Liberal Order_ (1991), _Liberalism Defended: The Challenge of Post-Modernity_ (1997), and _Norms of Liberty: A Perfectionist Basis for Non-Perfectionist Politics_ (2005).