Moshik Temkin

Distinguished Visiting Professor of Leadership and History, Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University, Beijing

Moshik Temkin is currently Distinguished Visiting Professor of Leadership and History at Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University in Beijing, and a faculty affiliate at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He is also a visiting professor at the Kautilya School of Public Policy, in Hyderabad, India, and has been a visiting professor and lecturer in South Korea, Spain, Mexico, France, and the United States. His most recent book is Warriors, Rebels, and Saints: The Art of Leadership from Machiavelli to Malcolm X (2023). His previous books include The Sacco-Vanzetti Affair: America on Trial (2011).

Written by Moshik Temkin

Photo of four boys sitting on a wooden board of a vehicle with a 1941 Texas number plate against a blue sky.

How to interpret historical analogies

They’re good for kickstarting political debate but analogies with the past are often ahistorical and should be treated with care

by Moshik Temkin