Richard Wolin teaches history, political science, and comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of Heidegger’s Children: Hannah Arendt, Karl Löwith, Hans Jonas, and Herbert Marcuse, The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism, and The Wind from the East: French Intellectuals and the Chinese Cultural Revolution (all with Princeton University Press). His articles and reviews have appeared in Dissent, The Nation, and The New Republic.