Mark Lilla

Mark Lilla
Born	1956 (age 67–68) Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Spouse	Diana Cooper
Academic background
Education	University of Michigan (BS) Harvard University (MPP, PhD)
Thesis	A Preface to Vico: Skepticism, Politics, Theodicy (1990)
Influences	Sir Isaiah Berlin
Academic work
School or tradition	Liberalism
Institutions	New York University University of Chicago Columbia University
Website	marklilla.com

Mark Lilla (born 1956) is an American political scientist, historian of ideas, journalist, and professor of humanities at Columbia University in New York City. A self-described liberal,^[1] he frequently, though not always, presents views from that perspective.

A frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, The New York Times, and publications worldwide, he is best known for his books The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics, The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics, The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West, and The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction. After holding professorships at New York University and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, he joined Columbia University in 2007 as Professor of the Humanities. He lectures widely and has delivered the Weizmann Memorial Lecture in Israel, the Carlyle Lectures at Oxford University, and the MacMillan Lectures on Religion, Politics, and Society at Yale University.