Paul A. Rahe

Paul A. Rahe is a professor of history at Hillsdale College. He is the author of Montesquieu and the Logic of Liberty: War, Religion, Commerce, Climate, Terrain, Technology, Uneasiness of Mind, the Spirit of Political Vigilance, and the Foundations of the Modern Republic (Yale University Press).

Articles by Paul A. Rahe

The Petrarchan Moment

Humanism was a movement with a political mission, and its founder was Petrarch.

Missing the Point

What are we to make of Madison’s revisions to his notes?

The Return of the Caliph

Arab nationalism is a relic of a rapidly vanishing world.

Rediscovering Herodotus

The Great and the Good

A review of The Case for Greatness: Honorable Ambition and Its Critics, by Rober Faulkner

Machiavelli at War

A new translation of Art of War, by Niccolò Machiavelli.

Claremont Review of Books

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