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Robert Jay Lifton

Robert Jay Lifton is Lecturer in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Psychology at the City University of New York. He won the National Book Award for Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima.

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Jacobo Timerman

Jacobo Timerman (1923–1999) was a Soviet-born Argentine publisher, journalist, and author. He was widely known for reporting atrocities of the Argentine military regime’s Dirty War. His books included Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number and The Longest War.

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Christine L. Kane

Christine L. Kane is a freelance writer and editor in Boston.

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Estelle Jussim

Estelle Jussim (1927–2004) was an American historian of photography.

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William Cloonan

William Cloonan is Richard Chapple Professor of Modern Languages and Linguistics at Florida State University.

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Alexander Coleman

Alexander Coleman (1935–2003) was a professor in the Spanish & Portuguese and Comparative Literature departments at New York University.

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Clyde N. Wilson

Clyde N. Wilson is professor emeritus of history at the University of South Carolina.

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Harvey Cox

Harvey Cox is an American theologian who served as the Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School until 2009.

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Noel Ignatiev

Noel Ignatiev (1940–2019) was an American activist and historian and author of How the Irish Became White.

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Eric Foner

Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University. He has won the Bancroft Prize and the Pulitzer Prize for History.

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Frank Michelman

Frank Michelman is Robert Walmsley University Professor, Emeritus at Harvard Law School.

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Allan Forbes

Allan Forbes was National Director and then Vice President of the Council for a Livable World, 1962-75. He is a retired anthropologist, and was last a research associate at Brown.

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Joseph Brodsky

Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996) was a Soviet-born poet, translator, essayist, and playwright. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987 and was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States in 1991.

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Nguyen Ba Chung

Nguyen Ba Chung is a writer, poet and translator.

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John Walsh

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Richard Flacks

Richard Flacks, professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is the author of Beyond the Barricades: The ​’60s Generation Grows Up, Making History: The American Left and the American Mind, and many articles on social movements, left culture, and strategy.

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Michael Montgomery

Michael Montgomery is a former correspondent for American RadioWorks, where he covered war in Yugoslavia.

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Scott Sherman

Scott Sherman is a contributing writer at The Nation. His work has appeared in The New York Review of Books, Vanity Fair, the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Dissent and other publications. He is author of Patience and Fortitude: Power, Real Estate, and the Fight to Save a Public Library.

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Lynn Williams

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Eugene Genovese

Eugene Genovese (1930–2012) was an American historian of the American South and American slavery. His book Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made won the Bancroft Prize.

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Selwyn Cudjoe

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Regina Austin

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Bob Hulteen

Bob Hulteen is Associate Editor of Sojourners.

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Lisa Y. Sullivan

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