Tevi Troy is a visiting fellow with the Mercatus Center’s Program on Pluralism and Civil Exchange. He is also a senior fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center and served as the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from August 2007 to January 2009. Troy’s work with Mercatus focuses on the historical lessons from previous challenges to liberalism that are relevant to today. Troy has a Ph.D. and an M.A. in American civilization from the University of Texas at Austin and a B.S. in industrial and labor relations from Cornell University. Troy is the author of four books, including, most recently, "Fight House: Rivalries in the White House, From Truman to Trump," which The Wall Street Journal named one of the best political books of 2020.