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Richard D. Kahlenberg

Richard D. Kahlenberg is a Senior Fellow at The Century Foundation, where he writes about education, equal opportunity, and civil rights.

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David Runciman

David Runciman is Professor of Politics at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Trinity Hall. His books include The Politics of Good Intentions and Political Hypocrisy.

 
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Hyunseop Kim

Hyunseop Kim is a Postdoctoral Scholar in Center for Ethics in Society at Stanford University. Hyunseop completed his Ph.D. in philosophy at New York University in 2012. In his dissertation, he developed a non-consequentialist theory about our moral obligations to future people. He received a LL.B. and a M.A. in philosophy from Seoul National University, and studied at the Judicial Research & Training Institute in Korea. He served as a judge in Seoul for a while. He specializes in moral and political philosophy, currently working on Rawls and climate change, utilitarianism and population ethics, parental obligations and the non-identity problem, and non-natural moral realism and moral psychology. His most recent publication is ‘The uncomfortable truth about wrongful life cases’ (Philosophical Studies, forthcoming).

 

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Blake Francis

Blake Francis is a Phd Candidate in the Department of Philosophy at Stanford University. His research interests include political philosophy and environmental ethics. He is currently working on a dissertation on climate change ethics, which examines, among other things, how to make trade offs between preventing the harms of climate change and the social benefits provided by fossil-fuel use in energy, agriculture, and transportation. He received an M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Montana, where he also conducted research in the Department of Forestry and Conservation. Prior to pursuing graduate work, Blake had a career in wilderness management and trail construction with the US Forest Service in Arizona and Alaska.

 

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Mark Budolfson

Mark Budolfson received his PhD from Princeton, and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society at Stanford. His current research includes work on environmental philosophy, the legitimacy of international institutions, and general issues at the interface of ethics and public policy, especially in connection with collective action problems such as climate change and other dilemmas that arise in connection with common resources and public goods.

 

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Beenish Ahmed

Beenish Ahmed is a contributor to NPR, Foreign Policy, GlobalPost, and American Prospect. A freelance journalist, she is based in Islamabad, Pakistan.

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Gabrielle Flam

Gabrielle Flam is an M.F.A. candidate in creative writing at Emerson College. Her work has appeared in Paris/Atlantic and Core: International Journal of the Humanities

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Kimberley Brownlee

Kimberley Brownlee is Associae Professor in Legal and Moral Philosophy at the Warwick School of Law and author of Conscience and Conviction: The Case for Civil Disobedience. 

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Charles J. Dunlap Jr.

Charles J. Dunlap Jr. is Executive Director of the Center on Law, Ethics, and National Security at Duke University and a retired major general in the U.S. Air Force. 

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Lionel K. McPherson

Lionel K. McPherson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University. 

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Lawrence J. Korb

Lawrence J. Korb is Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and author of A New National Security Strategy in an Age of Terrorists, Tyrants, and Weapons of Mass Destruction. 

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Adil Ahmad Haque

Adil Ahmad Haque is Associate Professor of Law at Rutgers University School of Law. 

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Seth Lazar

Seth Lazar is a Research Fellow in the Philosophy Department at Australian National University. He tweets at @sethlazar.

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Shannon E. French

Shannon E. French is the Inamori Professor of Ethics at Case Western Reserve University and author of The Code of the Warrior: Exploring Warrior Values Past and Present

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Brian Imiola

Brian Imiola is Senior Military Philosopher and Academy Professor in the Department of English and Philosophy at the United States Military Academy (West Point). 

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Assaf Sharon

Assaf Sharon teaches philosophy at Tel Aviv University. He is co-chairman of Molad: The Center for the Renewal of Israeli Democracy.

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Jeff McMahan

Jeff McMahan is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University and author of Killing in War and The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life

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Alice Notley

Alice Notley has written more than 30 books of poetry, most recently Culture of One and Songs and Stories of the Ghouls

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Mark Hendrickon

Mark Hendrickson's poems have appeared in Rattle, Sugar House Review, and Zocalo: Public Square

 

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Rebecca Liu

Rebecca Liu is a fellow at the Michener Center for Writers. Her recent poems can be found in VOLT, Web Conjunctions, and Gulf Coast

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Monica Youn

Monica Youn’s poems have been published in Poetry, The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Paris Review, and The Best American Poetry, among other publications.  Her latest book is From From.

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Rose Odengo

Rose Odengo is a freelance reporter based in Kenya. 

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E.H. Dalton

E.H. Dalton's work has appeared in the Village Voice, Afterimage, and Purple

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Scott Coffel

Scott Coffel is author of the poetry collection Toucans in the Arctic

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