Allan Bloom was Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the College and co-director of the John M. Olin Center for Inquiry into the Theory and Practice of Democracy at the University of Chicago. He taught at Yale, University of Paris, University of Toronto, Tel Aviv University, and Cornell, where he was the recipient of the Clark Teaching Award in 1967. His other books are Plato’s Republic (translator and editor), Politics and the Arts: Letter to M. d’Alembert on the Theatre (translator and editor), Rousseau’s Emile (translator and editor), and Shakespeare’s Politics (with Harry V. Jaffa). He died in 1992.