CONTRIBUTOR:

Mark Blitz

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Professor

DEPARTMENT:

Political Philosophy

INSTITUTION:

Claremont McKenna College

BIOGRAPHY:

Mark Blitz (A.B. and Ph.D. from Harvard University) is Fletcher Jones Professor of Political Philosophy and Director of the Henry Salvatori Center at Claremont McKenna College. He served during the Reagan administration as Associate Director of the United States Information Agency, where he was the senior United States official in charge of educational and cultural programs abroad, and as a senior professional staff member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. He has been Vice President of the Hudson Institute, and has taught political theory at Harvard University and at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Conserving Liberty; Plato’s Political Philosophy; Duty Bound: Responsibility and American Public Life; Heidegger’s “Being and Time” and the Possibility of Political Philosophy; and is co-editor (with William Kristol) of Educating the Prince.