Michael Platt

Dr. Platt has taught literature, political science, and philosophy, here in America, at Dartmouth and the University of Dallas, where he directed the literature part of the Philosophic Institute, and abroad, at the University of Heidelberg. His Rome and Romans According to Shakespeare first appeared in 1976 (2nd ed.: University Press of America, 1982); his “Falstaff in the Valley of the Shadow of Death” is in Major Literary Characters: Falstaff, ed. Harold Bloom (Chelsea House, 1991); and his Seven Wonders of Shakespeare is forthcoming. His essays on Nietzsche will be found in the Journal of Value Inquiry, vol. 22, and Nietzsche Studien, vol. 17 and 22. And his essays on learning and teaching the young today in America are in “Souls without Longing,” Interpretation, 1991; “What Student Evaluations Teach,” Perspectives on Political Science (Winter, 1993); and “The Young, The Good, and the West,” in America, The West, and the Liberal Arts, ed. Ralph Hancock (Rowman & Littlefield, 1998). Dr. Platt lectures for ISI, writes for Practical Homeschooling and is headmaster of the Friends of the Republic, the family home school in East Wallingford, Vermont and Albany, Texas.