Michael S. Kochin
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Michael S. Kochin

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Michael S. Kochin is Professor Extraordinarius in the School of Political Science, Government, and International Relations at Tel Aviv University, and Visiting Scholar in the Hillsdale College Van Andel Graduate School of Government in DC and at the Catholic University of America. Kochin received his A.B. in mathematics at 19 from Harvard and his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago. He has held visiting appointments at Yale, Princeton, Toronto, and Claremont McKenna College. He has written widely on the comparative analysis of institutions, political thought, politics and literature, and political rhetoric. Kochin is the author of three books: Gender and Rhetoric in Plato's Political Thought (2002), Five Chapters on Rhetoric: Character, Action, Things, Nothing, and Art (2009) and (with the historian Michael Taylor) An Independent Empire: Diplomacy & War in the Making of the United States (2020). With Alberto Spektorowski he edited Michel Houellebecq, the Cassandra of Freedom: Submission and Decline (2021). In freemasonry, Kochin is immediate past master of Lodge of the Holy City #4 in Jerusalem under the Grand Lodge of Israel, past Grand Scribe Ezra of the Supreme Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Israel, 32nd degree in the Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite, and a Noble of Almas Shrine (DC, USA). Kochin is also an affiliate member of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai Lodge #8 (Grand Lodge of Israel) and Hiram-Takoma Lodge #10 (Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia).
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