Author: Birch Smith

Birch studied philosophy and history at Hillsdale College before working as a teacher of history, government and economics. He is now embarking on graduate study at George Mason University, pursuing a Master of Arts in International Security. His non-academic interests include cooking, hiking, football ( or ‘soccer’ for those uninitiated in the beautiful game), and apparently changing cities as often as possible. Black coffee or a peaty scotch, always. You can find him on Twitter