Timothy W. Burns is Professor of Government at Baylor University. He is the author of Shakespeare's Political Wisdom and the editor of After History?: Francis Fukuyama and his Critics and the Companion to Leo Strauss' Writings on Classical Political Thought (forthcoming). He is also co-editor, with Bryan-Paul Frost, of Philosophy, History, and Tyranny: Re-examining the Debate Between Leo Strauss and Alexandre Kojève, and co-editor, with Peter Augustine Lawler, of The Future of Liberal Education. He has translated Marcellinus' Life of Thucydides and is the author of articles on Homer, Thucydides, Aristophanes, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Bacon, Hobbes, Shakespeare, Chesterton, Strauss, Fukuyama, Putnam, John Courtney Murray, and modern liberal republican theory.