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Jacob Howland

Jacob Howland is McFarlin Professor of Philosophy emeritus at the University of Tulsa and a senior fellow at the Tikvah Fund. He is the author of Plato and the Talmud (Cambridge University Press) and, most recently, Glaucon’s Fate: History, Myth, and Character in Plato’s Republic (Paul Dry).

Spring 2021

The Beginning of Politics

Jacob Howland

Leon Kass hadn't really read the Bible until he found himself teaching Genesis to freshmen at the University of Chicago. Three decades later, he published his widely acclaimed The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis. Now he’s published his commentary on Exodus.

Summer 2019

“Love Between Writers”: Saul Bellow and Bette Howland

Jacob Howland

“I thought you knew that I belonged to the Truth Party too,” Bette Howland wrote her fellow novelist, mentor, and sometime lover, Saul Bellow. Her son recently found a new cache of letters between them that illuminates two brilliant artists at work.