title: Paul A. Rahe
text: # Paul A. Rahe
  
  Paul Anthony Rahe (born December 18, 1948) is an American classicist, historian, writer and professor of history at Hillsdale College. He taught at Yale University, Cornell University, Franklin and Marshall College, and the University of Tulsa before taking up his present position.
  
  Rahe comments with some frequency on political matters and blogs with some regularity for Ricochet.
  
  ## Biography
  
  Rahe received a B.A. in history from Yale University in 1971, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa. He then read Literae Humaniores at Wadham College, Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship, receiving a B.A. in 1974. He received his PhD in history at Yale University in 1977. His political positions are conservative.
  
  