Michael S. Kochin is professor extraordinarius in the School of Political Science, Government, and International Relations at Tel Aviv University. He received his AB in mathematics at nineteen from Harvard and his MA and PhD in political science from the University of Chicago. He has held visiting appointments at Yale, Princeton, Toronto, Claremont McKenna College, and the Catholic University of America. He has written widely on the comparative analysis of institutions, political thought, politics and literature, and political rhetoric. Kochin is the author of Gender and Rhetoric in Plato's Political Thought, Five Chapters on Rhetoric: Character, Action, Things, Nothing, and Art, and coauthor, with the historian Michael Taylor, of An Independent Empire: Diplomacy & War in the Making of the United States. He is a thirtieth-degree Freemason and reigning First Principal of Holy City Royal Arch Chapter #3, Supreme Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Israel.
