Having been persuaded by Plato’s Republic that justice requires the philosopher “to go back down into the Cave,” I have devoted my professional life to the cause of public education, presently as a Latin teacher at E.C. Glass High School in Lynchburg, Virginia. Born in Washington D.C., with degrees from Wesleyan University, the University of Toronto, and the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, I have been a public high school teacher in Vermont, California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Virginia and have taught History, Social Studies, Philosophy, English, Drama, and Latin. I began publishing scholarly articles in Intellectual History, Classics, and Philosophy in 2007 and my first book, The German Stranger: Leo Strauss and National Socialism (Lexington Books) was published in 2011. Lexington will also be publishing Plato the Teacher: The Crisis of the Republic and Martin Heidegger and the First World War: Being and Time as Funeral Oration in 2012. Fascinated by the devastating impact of the First World War on modern intellectual life, I am presently engaged in writing a trilogy of novels of which the first, Kipling’s Sons, is now complete. Since 2014 will mark the centennial of the Great War, I am presently seeking a Literary Agent interested in this timely project. My wife Zoraide and I divide our time between the United States and her native Brazil; my two sons, Philip and Elias, live in New York City.
