Steven Yates is a professional writer and independent scholar in philosophy, an entrepreneur, and an expatriated US citizen living in Chile. He has taught philosophy at Clemson University, Auburn University, USC-Upstate, Universidad Andres Bello, and elsewhere. He is the author of Civil Wrongs: What Went Wrong With Affirmative Action (1994) and Four Cardinal Errors: Reasons for the Decline of the American Republic (2011), and has published around twenty-eight articles, review essays, and reviews in refereed journals and anthologies.