Jacob How­land is McFar­lin Pro­fes­sor of Phi­los­o­phy at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Tul­sa. His essays have appeared in The New Cri­te­ri­on, Com­men­tary, the Jew­ish Review of Books, and the Clare­mont Review of Books, among oth­er pub­li­ca­tions. His lat­est book is Glau­con’s Fate: His­to­ry, Myth, and Char­ac­ter in Pla­to’s Repub­lic (Paul Dry Books, 2018).