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David Antin

David Antin is a poet, critic, and performance artist. His most recent book is Radical Coherency: Selected Essays on Art and Literature (2010). 

 

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Jeffrey Aaron Snyder

Jeffrey Aaron Snyder is Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Studies at Carleton College. His writing has also appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Education Week, and the New Republic.

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Yanis Varoufakis

Yanis Varoufakis is the former Finance Minister of Greece. Since 2018, he has been Secretary-General of Democracy in Europe Movement 2025. He is coauthor, with Stuart Holland and James K. Galbraith, of A Modest Proposal for Resolving the Euro Crisis.

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Adam Rosenblatt

Adam Rosenblatt, professor of global studies at Champlain College, Burlington, VT, is author of the forthcoming book, Last Rights: Forensic Science, Human Rights, and the Politics of Mass Graves (Stanford University Press).

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John James

John James is the author of Chthonic, winner of the 2014 CutBank Chapbook Award. His poems appear in Kenyon Review, Poetry Northwest, West Branch, Best American Poetry 2017, and elsewhere. He teaches at Trinity Washington University and the University of the District of Columbia, and directs Georgetown Summer Programs’ Creative Writing Institute.

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David Bacon

David Bacon is a California writer and documentary photographer, who documents changing conditions in the workforce, and the impact of the global economy, war and migration.  He is the author of several books about migration —  the latest is The Right to Stay Home, just published by Beacon Press.

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Catherine Blauvelt

Catherine Blauvelt's poems have appeared in Fifth Wednesday Journal and Like Starlings. She teaches at the University of Iowa. 

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Erika L. Sánchez

Erika L. Sánchez is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection, Lessons on Expulsion (Graywolf 2017), and the young adult novel, Brown Girl Problems (Knopf 2017). She has received a CantoMundo Fellowship, a “Discovery”/Boston Review Poetry Prize, and a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship.

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Raena Shirali

Raena Shirali's work has appeared in Fogged Clarity and Four Way Review

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Julia Guez

Julia Guez’s essays, interviews, poems and translations have appeared in POETRY, CircumferencePEN Poetry Series, BOMBlog, The Boston Review, The Guardian, Apogee and DIAGRAM.  She has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship, the "Discovery"/ Boston Review Poetry Prize and the John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize in Translation. Guez lives in Brooklyn and on-line @G_U_E_Z ; she is the managing director of Brooklyn-based programming at Teach For America-New York and teaches creative writing at Rutgers.

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Jake Blumgart

Jake Blumgart is a reporter-researcher based out of Philadelphia. His work has been published by the American Prospect, Philadelphia Inquirer, The Huffington Post, and Slate.

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Janet Halley

Janet Halley is the Royall Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She is the author of Split Decisions: How and Why to Take a Break from Feminism.

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Ronald V. Dellums

Ronald V. Dellums is a former U.S. Congressman from Northern California and mayor of Oakland, CA.

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Joseph Raz

Joseph Raz is a Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. His most recent book is From Normativity to Responsibility.

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Homi K. Bhabha

Homi K. Bhabha is the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and Language, and the Director of the Humanities Center at Harvard University.

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Saskia Sassen

Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Co-Chair of The Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. She  is the author most recently of Expulsions; Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy (Harvard University Press).

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Elizabeth Frazer

Elizabeth Frazer is a University Lecturer in Politics and Official Fellow at Oxford University. She is the author of Ideas of Education: Philosophy and Politics from Plato to Dewey.

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Bhikhu Parekh

Bhikhu Parekh is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Academy of the Learned Societies for Social Sciences, and a Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Westminster. He is the author of Rethinking Multiculturalism: Cultural Diversity and Political Theory.

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Sander Gilman

Sander Gilman is a Distinguished Professor at the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies and Professor of Psychiatry at Emory University. He is the author or editor of over eighty books.

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Bonnie Honig

Bonnie Honig is Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Political Science at Brown University. Her most recent book is Public Things: Democracy in Disrepair.

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Katha Pollitt

Katha Pollitt is an American feminist poet, essayist, and critic. Her work has appeared in The Nation, Harper's Magazine, The New York Times, and Mother Jones.

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Susan Moller Okin

Susan Moller Okin (1946–2004) was a liberal feminist political philosopher. She was author of Justice, Gender, and the Family and Women in Western Political Thought.

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Ariana Reines

Ariana Reines’s books of poetry include The Cow (2006), Coeur de Lion (2007) and most recently Mercury (2011). Her first play, Telephone (2009) was performed at the Cherry Lane Theater and received two Obie Awards. Her translations include a version of Baudelaire’s My Heart Laid Bare (2009), Jean-Luc Hennig’s The Little Black Book of Grisélidis Réal: Days and Nights of an Anarchist Whore (2009), and Tiqqun’s Preliminary Materials Toward a Theory of the Young-Girl (2012). 

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William A. Galston

William A. Galston is the Ezra K. Zilkha Chair in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. A participant in six presidential campaigns, he served from 1993 to 1995 as deputy assistant to President Bill Clinton for domestic policy.

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