Steven C. A. Pincus is Professor of History, Yale University. He is the author of" Protestantism and Patriotism: Ideologies and the Making of English Foreign Policy, 1650-1668," as well as numerous essays on the cultural, political, and intellectual history of early modern Britain, and he is the coeditor of" A Nation Transformed? England after the Restoration" with Alan Craig Houston and the forthcoming collection" The Public Sphere in Early Modern England" with Peter Lake.