Neil is William Warren Rogers Professor of History and chair of the History Department at Florida State University. He is the author of Henry Steele Commager: Midcentury Liberalism and the History of the Present, 1999 and Critical Crossings: The New York Intellectuals in Postwar America, 1991. He is also the editor of The New York Intellectuals Reader, and co-editor (with Kevin Mattson) of Liberalism for a New Century, which addresses the question of liberalism in the post-9/11 world.