Larry Arnhart is a Presidential Research Professor of Political Science at Northern Illinois University. He is the author of the books Darwinian Natural Right: The Biological Ethics of Human Nature (1998) and Darwinian Conservatism (2005), among others. He is currently working on two further books, to be entitled Darwinian Liberalism and Biopolitical Science.

Arnhart received a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago in 1977, an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Chicago in 1974, and a B.A. in Politics from the University of Dallas in 1971. He blogs at Darwinian Conservatism.