Rebecca Lowe

is Philosophy Senior Research Fellow and Director of Emerging Scholars at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. She is currently writing two books: Freedom in Utopia, on how free we would be in the best possible society, and Speaking Freely, on what it means to speak freely. Her philosophical essays appear on her Substack, the ends don't justify the means. She was previously the director of the UK think tank FREER and research director at an investment company; until recently, she was Consulting Space Philosopher at a strategic space advisory firm and a Senior Reader at the Canterbury Institute in Oxford. She wrote her PhD, on moral property rights, at King's College London.