Paul A. Rahe is Professor of History and Politics at Hillsdale College, author of Republics Ancient and Modern: Classical Republicanism and the American Revolution (1992) and of Against Throne and Altar: Machiavelli and Political Theory under the English Republic (2008), co-editor of Montesquieu’s Science of Politics: Essays on the Spirit of Laws (2001), and editor of Machiavelli’s Liberal Republican Legacy (2006). He has two books forthcoming next year —Montesquieu and the Logic of Liberty and Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift: Montesquieu, Rousseau, and Tocqueville on the Modern Prospect.

Link to Paul's website: http://www.PaulARahe.com.