Paul Rahe on Soft Despotism and Obama’s Healthcare Proposals| Paul Rahe 00:10:00
Paul A. Rahe is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution. Rahe holds the Charles O. Lee and Louise K. Lee Chair in the Western Heritage at Hillsdale College, where he is Professor of History, lived in Istanbul from 1984 to 1986 as a fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs. In the 2013-14 academic year, Rahe was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He majored in History, the Arts and Letters at Yale University, read Litterae Humaniores at Oxford University’s Wadham College on a Rhodes Scholarship, and then returned to Yale to do his Ph.D. in ancient Greek history under the direction of Donald Kagan.