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Matthew Rose is a scholar of modern religious thought from Iowa. He holds an A.B. from Wabash College, an M.A. from the University of Notre Dame, and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. His career includes serving as the remaining member of the National Council on the Humanities, appointed by Trump, and as a Fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University. He is currently the Ennis Fellow in Humanities and Executive Director of the Berkeley Institute at Villanova University, where he teaches courses in philosophy, politics, and literature, and Senior Fellow and Director of the Barry Center on the University and Intellectual Life at the Morningside Institute. Rose is the author of A World After Liberalism (Yale University Press, 2021) and Ethics with Barth: Major Concepts and Minor Prophecies (Ashgate, 2010), and a contributor to journals including Political Theology, The Thomist, Logos, Pro Ecclesia, Studies in Christian Ethics, Journal of Catholic Moral Theology, First Things, National Affairs, Public Discourse, and The Weekly Standard. He is the brother of John Rose, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Civic Life and Leadership (SCiLL).