Chip Joyce is the author of The Correcting Animal: The Case for Humanity, The Fortress: Recovering the Bill of Rights as a Defense Against Tyranny, and How to Think: Conversations from a Father to a Son. He writes on philosophy, epistemology, and politics, drawing on history, science, technology, economics, and literature. The arguments depend on the crossing. He lives in North Carolina.

Before he began writing he spent twenty-five years as an entrepreneur, a consultant, and an executive. He has presented at investment banks, pharmaceutical companies, technology firms, global consultancies, private equity and venture capital firms, and Silicon Valley startups, and has lectured at Columbia Business School, Dartmouth, and the London School of Economics.