Why talk about tyranny today? / Catherine Zuckert -- Tyranny, ancient and modern / Mark Blitz -- Tyranny bound / David Tabachnick -- An omission from ancient and early modern theories of tyranny : genocidal tyrannies / Roger Boesche -- Failures of autonomy : a Hegelian diagnosis of modern tyranny / Douglas Moggach -- What is "tyranny"? : considering the contested discourse of domination in the twenty-first century / Simon Tormey -- Postcolonial African and Middle Eastern tyrannies : combing the worst of the classical and modern traditions / Daniel Chirot -- Tyranny and tragedy in Nietzsche : from the ancient to the modern / Tracy B. Strong -- Tyranny from Plato to Locke / Nathan Tarcov -- Is there an ontology of tyranny? / Waller R. Newell -- Tyranny and the womanish soul / Leah Bradshaw -- The soul of the tyrant, and the souls of you and me : Plato's understanding of tyranny / Ronald Beiner -- The education of a tyrant / Toivo Koivukoski -- The folly of the wise? / Thomas Smith -- In the shadow of the fortress / Barry Strauss -- The new age of tyranny / Mark Lilla.