Samuel Postell is Assistant Director of the Lyceum Scholars Program at Clemson University’s Snow Institute for the Study of Capitalism. He holds a Ph.D. in Politics from the University of Dallas, with a dissertation on Henry Clay, union, and legislative statesmanship. His teaching and research span American political thought, capitalism, politics and literature, and antebellum political life. He has a forthcoming book on Melville’s Moby-Dick entitled American Epic: Philosophy, Power, and Impiety in Melville’s Moby-Dick.