I study how people make meaning under uncertainty — in Hobbes and Nietzsche, and in the true-crime cases and fiction podcasts I write and produce. A Cambridge University Press book and a Georgetown Ph.D. sit on one shelf; FBI True, Never Seen Again, and two award-winning audio dramas sit on the other. This is the record of both.
Christopher Scott McClure received his Ph.D. in Government from Georgetown University and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Harvard University’s Program on Constitutional Government. He is the author of Hobbes and the Artifice of Eternity (Cambridge University Press), which examines how Hobbes reimagines mortality, uncertainty, and meaning at the founding of modern political thought.
That same set of questions — how people search for order and significance when the old certainties fall away — carries directly into his work in documentary television and audio fiction. As a producer on FBI True and Never Seen Again (both Paramount+), he has booked stories, conducted field interviews, and story-edited episodes built around real investigations. As the creator of two independent fiction podcasts, Harvey in Hell and the award-winning The Milkman of St. Gaff’s, he writes and produces original narrative work supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.
He also co-hosts The Reading Group, a podcast working through Plato’s dialogues in conversation with fellow political theorists.
A study of mortality, uncertainty, and the political imagination in the work of Thomas Hobbes — and how the search for permanence shapes the modern state.
Fifteen years producing documentary television, and five years writing and producing independent audio fiction — booking stories, chasing sources, and shaping narrative from both sides of the camera.
Booked stories, conducted field interviews, and story-edited fifteen episodes of the true-crime documentary series.
Booked stories and story-edited five episodes. Season opener nominated for a Hillman Prize in Broadcast Journalism.
HillmanAn independent audio drama, written, recorded, and produced end-to-end. Supported by a Canada Council for the Arts grant.
Best Production and Best Storyteller, 2022 Audio Verse Awards. Over 750,000 downloads and a devoted following.
VerifiedManaged a team of story editors and oversaw post-production, edits, and audio mastering for the first season.
Found stories and chased sources; booked stories for the long-running Discovery+ true-crime series.
Whether it’s a story to book, a text to read closely, or a project that needs both — I’d like to hear about it.