Paul Stern is Professor of Politics at Ursinus College, where he teaches in politics and international relations and in the college’s common intellectual curriculum. His scholarship focuses on classical political philosophy, especially Plato, and he has written on Socratic rationalism, knowledge, and political life. Stern has also participated in public discussions about the shape and future of liberal education. For Liberal Education in America, he would connect institutional practice, great books teaching, and the enduring question of what a college education is for.