13 Facts About Thomas Pangle

Thomas Pangle holds the Joe R Long Chair in Democratic Studies in the Department of Government and is Co-Director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for Core Texts and Ideas at the University of Texas at Austin.

Thomas Pangle has taught at the University of Toronto and Yale University.

Thomas Pangle was born and grew up in Gouverneur, New York.

Thomas Pangle graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1966, "with distinction in all subjects" and ranked fifth in class, having studied political philosophy under Allan Bloom.

Thomas Pangle's dissertation was "Montesquieu and the Moral Basis of Liberal Democracy, " completed under the supervision of Joseph Cropsey, Herbert Storing, and Richard E Flathman.

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Thomas Pangle became a professor in 1983 and was named University Professor in 2001.

Thomas Pangle was a visiting professor at the University of Chicago in 1984 and at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in 1987.

Thomas Pangle is married to fellow professor Lorraine Smith Thomas Pangle, who was a faculty member at the University of Toronto and is a professor in the Department of Government at the University of Texas.

Thomas Pangle is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and has won Guggenheim, Killam-Canada Council, Carl Friedrich von Siemens, and four National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships.

Thomas Pangle has been awarded The Benton Bowl at Yale University and the Robert Foster Cherry Great Teacher of the World Prize, Baylor University.

Thomas Pangle asserts that the awakened philosophic life is the only truly human life.

Thomas Pangle was denied tenure at Yale University, in a scandal, during which a senior colleague explained, in a pronouncement: "academic freedom is one thing, but there are two types who will never be permitted tenure at Yale: Leninists and Straussians.

At that point, Pangle resigned, having been offered a tenured position at the University of Toronto—and because, as he declared, he no longer felt he could comfortably live with his colleagues in the Yale Political Science Department.