Joseph Loconte is an Associate Professor of History at the King’s College in New York City, where he teaches courses on Western Civilization and American Foreign Policy. His commentary on international human rights and religious freedom has appeared in the nation’s leading media outlets, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the New Republic, the Weekly Standard, and National Public Radio. He is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post and the London-based Standpoint magazine. He serves as a senior fellow at the Trinity Forum and as an affiliated scholar at the John Jay Institute. A native of Brooklyn, New York, he divides his time between New York City and Washington DC.