Robert Zaretsky teaches courses in modern European intellectual and cultural history at the Honors College of The University of Houston. He is the author of several books, including Albert Camus: Elements of a Life (Cornell University Press, 2010) and Camus: A Life Worth Living (Harvard University Press, 2013.) He is also a frequent contributor to the New York Times, Foreign Policy, Los Angeles Times, Jewish Daily Forward, Los Angeles Review of Books and Chronicle of Higher Education.