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Cristobal Young

Cristobal Young is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Stanford University.

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Joanne Landy

Joanne Landy is Co-Director of the Campaign for Peace and Democracy and a member of the editorial board at New Politics.

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Tod Lindberg

Tod Lindberg is Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution and editor of Policy Review.

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Jennifer DeVere Brody

Jennifer DeVere Brody is Professor of Drama at Stanford University.

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John Tirman

John Tirman is Executive Director of the MIT Center for International Studies and author of The Deaths of Others: The Fate of Civilians in America’s Wars.

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Michele Elam

Michele Elam is Martin Luther King Jr. Centennial Professor of English at Stanford University.

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Mary Kaldor

Mary Kaldor, Professor of Global Governance at the London School of Economics, is author of New and Old Wars.

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David Palumbo-Liu

David Palumbo-Liu is Professor and Director of Comparative Literature at Stanford University, and author, most recently, of The Deliverance of Others: Reading Literature in a Global Age (forthcoming). He edits Occasion: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities.

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Prudence L. Carter

Prudence L. Carter is Associate Professor of Education and Sociology (by courtesy) at Stanford University and author of the forthcoming Stubborn Roots: Cultivating Cultural Flexibility and Equity in U.S. and South African Schools.

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James D. Fearon

James D. Fearon is Theodore and Frances Geballe Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University.

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Paul R. Ehrlich

Paul R. Ehrlich is Bing Professor of Population Studies and President of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University.

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Neta C. Crawford

Neta C. Crawford is Montague Burton Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford and a Professorial Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford.

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Anne H. Ehrlich

Anne H. Ehrlich is Policy Coordinator at the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University. They are co-authors, most recently, of The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment.

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Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

Joseph S. Nye, Jr. is University Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus at Harvard University and author of the forthcoming book, Do Morals Matter? Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump.

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Kenneth Arrow

Kenneth Arrow is Professor of Economics and of Management Science and Engineering Emeritus at Stanford University.

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Greg Grandin

Greg Grandin teaches history at Yale University. His book The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.

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David D. Laitin

David D. Laitin, Watkins Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, is coauthor, with Claire Adida and Marie-Anne Valfort, of the forthcoming Why Muslim Integration Fails: An Inquiry in Christian-Heritage Societies.

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Rob Reich

Rob Reich is Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and coauthor, with Jeremy M. Weinstein and Mehran Sahami, of System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot.

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Alexander B. Downes

Alexander B. Downes is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs and co-Director of the Institute for Security and Conflict Studies at George Washington University. He is author of Targeting Civilians in War and Catastrophic Success: Why Foreign-Imposed Regime Change Goes Wrong.

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Richard M. Locke

Richard M. Locke, Class of 1922 Professor of Political Science and Management and Head of the MIT Political Science Department, is coauthor of Working in America.

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Andrew Szasz

Andrew Szasz is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz and author of Shopping Our Way to Safety: How We Changed from Protecting the Environment to Protecting Ourselves.

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Anne L. Alstott

Anne L. Alstott is Jacquin D. Bierman Professor of Taxation at Yale Law School, coauthor of The Stakeholder Society, and author of No Exit: What Parents Owe Their Children and What Society Owes Parents.

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Auret van Heerden

Auret van Heerden is President and CEO of the Fair Labor Association.

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Susan E. Mayer

Susan E. Mayer is Professor in the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago and author of What Money Can’t Buy: Family Income and Children’s Life Chances.

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