David Sehat is a cultural and intellectual historian of the United States. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and currently teaches at Georgia State University. Sehat has written broadly on American intellectual, political, and cultural life. He is the author of three books: The Myth of American Religious Freedom (2015), The Jefferson Rule: How the Founding Fathers Became Infallible and Our Politics Inflexible (2015), and This Earthly Frame: The Making of American Secularism (2022).