David Weinstein is Emeritus Professor at Wake Forest University, North Carolina and Honorarprofessur fur Ideenhistoriker at Carl V. Ossietzky Universitat Oldenburg, Germany. His previous publications include Equal Freedom and Utility (Cambridge, 1998), The New Liberalism (with Avital Simhony, Cambridge, 2001) and Utilitarianism and the New Liberalism (Cambridge, 2007).