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About the Author
Marcin Król is professor of the history of ideas at the University of Warsaw and editor of Res Publica, an independent intellectual monthly. He has taught at Yale University and the University of Texas, and is a member of the editorial board of the Catholic weekly Tygodnik Powszechny. He is spending the fall 1994 semester as the E.L. Wiegand Distinguished Professor of Democratization at Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service.