James Mumford

James Mumford is associate fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. His research interests include political theology, modern Catholic social thought, and bioethics, which he taught in the University of Virginia’s philosophy department. He is the author of Vexed: Ethics Beyond Political Tribes, which was published by Bloomsbury Continuum in March 2020 in the UK and May 2020 in the United States. The book has received reviews in popular publications such as the Guardian and the Times (UK). His first book, Ethics at the Beginning of Life: A Phenomenological Critique, was published in 2013 by Oxford University Press and was widely reviewed in both religious and philosophical circles.

Mumford was an undergraduate at Oxford and a Henry Fellow at Yale. From 2010 to 2013, he worked for the Centre for Social Justice, a leading British political think tank. He currently writes on a range of ethical, political, and social issues for The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Huffington Post, The Spectator, The Hedgehog Review, The American Conservative, and Standpoint.