Noah Torres is a policy scholar for the Center for Health and Families at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, where he focuses on marriage and family formation policy and healthcare antitrust regulation and enforcement.
Born in Fort Worth, TX to a family actively involved in the local Hispanic, Catholic, and political circles, Noah was raised with an astute awareness of the value of civic virtue for securing the common good and flourishing of individuals in a community.
Noah later attended the University of Dallas, where he earned his B.A. (‘21) in Politics and Theology and his M.A. (‘23) in Political Theory.
As an undergraduate, Noah’s studies centered both on the development of constitutional theory in late medieval Scholasticism and canon law in the works of Jean Gerson and Konrad Summenhart and on the interplay between early modern ecclesiology and political theory in the works of Robert Bellarmine. During this time, Noah interned for the Religious Freedom Institute (RFI), where he produced a study that aided the passage of legislation protecting patient conscience rights in South Dakota.
While in graduate school, Noah executed research and authored a thesis on the early modern political, juristic, and ecclesiological thought of Francisco de Vitoria, Robert Bellarmine, Giovanni Botero, Paolo Sarpi, and Niccolò Machiavelli and their respective influences on the relationship between law and conscience as mediated by interpretations of the concepts of sovereignty and ‘reason of state’ articulated by the Papacy and Roman Curia. Related to these studies, Noah is an active participant in conversations surrounding the influence of the classical and Salamancan-Scholastic legal traditions on American jurisprudence. Additionally, he has presented on Francsico de Vitoria and Giovanni Botero at academic conferences in the United States and Europe and has published on Vitoria’s theory of subjective right in academic journals.
Noah has participated in work groups with the U.S. Department of State and U.K. Prime Minister’s Special Envoy for Religious Freedom to develop religious freedom policy. He has also produced university-level curricula on virtue ethics for nationwide usage.
In his free time, Noah enjoys visiting museums, reading Jesuit history, collecting intaglio prints, travelling, playing tennis, and spending time with friends. He also enjoys doing LSAT logic games and laments their unfortunate departure from the exam.