Paul Anthony Rahe (born December 18, 1948) is an American classicist, historian, writer and professor of history atHillsdale College.^[1][2] He taught atYale University,Cornell University,Franklin and Marshall College, and theUniversity of Tulsa before taking up his present position.

Rahe comments with some frequency on political matters^[3] and blogs with some regularity for Ricochet.^[4]

Rahe received a B.A. in history from Yale University in 1971, where he graduatedPhi Beta Kappa. He then readLiterae Humaniores atWadham College, Oxford on aRhodes scholarship, receiving a B.A. in 1974. He received his PhD in history at Yale University in 1977. His political positions are conservative.^[1] In 2016, he referred toRepublican nomineeDonald Trump as a "slimeball," but endorsed him for president nonetheless because of his revulsion atDemocratic nomineeHillary Clinton's "depravity".^[5] In 2020, he unreservedly endorsed Donald Trump for president.^[6] He is married to Laura Rahe, a lawyer and the author of a book on courtship and marriage.^[7][8]

• Republics Ancient and Modern: Classical Republicanism and the American Revolution (University of North Carolina Press, 1992)
• Against Throne and Altar: Machiavelli and Political Theory under the English Republic (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
• Montesquieu and the Logic of Liberty: War, Religion, Commerce, Climate, Terrain, Technology, Uneasiness of Mind, The Spirit of Political Vigilance, and the Foundations of the Modern Republic (Yale University Press, 2009)
• Soft Despotism, Democracy's Drift: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville and the Modern Prospect (Yale University Press, 2009)
• The Spartan Regime: Its Character, Origins, and Grand Strategy (Yale University Press, 2016)
• The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta: The Persian Challenge (Yale University Press, 2015)
• Sparta's First Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 478-446 B.C. (Yale University Press, 2019)
• Sparta's Second Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 446-418 B.C. (Yale University Press, 2020)

• Machiavelli's Liberal Republican Legacy (Cambridge University Press, 2006)
• Montesquieu's Science of Politics: Essays on The Spirit of Laws (Rowman and Littlefield, 2001)(co-edited)

He has published scholarly articles inThe American Journal of Philology,Historia: Zeitschrift fur Alte Geschichte,The American Journal of Archaeology,The American Historical Review,Ciceroniana,The Review of Politics,The Political Science Reviewer,The Journal of Business and Professional Ethics,The Journal of the Historical Society,Security Studies,The History of Political Thought,Social Philosophy & Policy,1650–1850: Ideas, Inquiries, and Aesthetics in the Early Modern Era,History of European Ideas,The Catholic Social Science Review,Citizens and Statesmen,Reason Papers, andThe Journal of Policy History, and he has contributed articles of general interest and book reviews toThe American Spectator,Humanities,The Wilson Quarterly,The American Oxonian,The National Interest,Commentary,The American Interest,Reason,The American Scholar,The Claremont Review of Books,^[9]National Review,National Review Online,The Washington Times, andThe Wall Street Journal. He is currently working on a book tentatively entitledThe Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta: The Athenian Challenge.

Rahe was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and has been awarded fellowships by the Center for Hellenic Studies, The National Humanities Center, the Institute of Current World Affairs, theJohn M. Olin Foundation, the Center for the History of Freedom at Washington University, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Clair Hall at Cambridge University, All Souls College at Oxford University, The American Academy in Berlin, the Social Philosophy and Policy Center at Bowling Green University, and theHoover Institution.^[10] In 2006, the French Historical Society awarded him the Koren Prize for the Best Article Published in French History in 2005.

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