Mark Lilla, for example, a professor of political science there, suggested that Berlin went too far in denigrating the Enlightenment thinkers of the 18th century.

In the New Republic, Mark Lilla has a witty, subtle, and knowledgeable meditation on the phenomenon of neoconservatism.

Mark Lilla says provocative things that are fun to pick apart and build on.

It's - to mimic Mark Lilla - between the people who have absorbed both the '60s and the '80s, and everyone else.

As a writer and intellectual, Mark Lilla stands at the intersection of politics and religion.

In the long run, Mark Lilla argues, they were wrong.

As Mark Lilla has argued, both emphasized the liberation of the individual.

His work "should especially interest American readers," Mark Lilla wrote in the Book Review last year.

Mark Lilla (born 1956) is an essayist and historian of ideas at Columbia University in New York City.

Mark Lilla was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1956.