Richard Wolin is Distinguished Professor of History, Comparative Literature, and Political Science at the Graduate Center of City University in New York. He wrote works such as Heidegger’s Children: Hannah Arendt, Karl Löwith, Hans Jonas, and Herbert Marcuse (2003) and The Wind from the East: French Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution, and the Legacy of the 1960s (2010). His work has been translated into ten languages. Wolin published articles in Dissent, The Nation and The New Republic.