is Professor at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. In 1991 he won the Leo Strauss Award, that is awarded each year by the American Political Science Association for the best political philosophy dissertation in the United States. Lilla is author of, amongst other publications, G.B. Vico: The Making of an Anti-Modern (Harvard University Press, 1993), The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin (New York Review Books, 2001, with Ronald Dworkin and Robert Silvers), and, most recently, The Reckless Mind. Intellectuals in Politics (New York Review of Books, 2001).