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Fawaz A. Gerges

Fawaz A. Gerges is Director of the Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics and author of The Rise and Fall of Al-Qaeda.

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Elaine Scarry

Elaine Scarry is Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University. Her many books include The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World and Thermonuclear Monarchy: Choosing Between Democracy and Doom.

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S. Abbas Raza

S. Abbas Raza is founding editor of 3 Quarks Daily. He is working on a book on philosophical theories of truth.

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Morgan Meis

Morgan Meis has a Ph.D. in philosophy from the New School for Social Research. He writes a regular feature for VQR and has written for Harper’s Magazine and The Believer.

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Leland de la Durantaye

Leland de la Durantaye is Professor of Literature at Claremont McKenna College. His books include Style Is Matter: The Moral Art of Vladimir Nabokov and Beckett’s Art of Mismaking.

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John Crowley

John Crowley is the author of Little, Big and the Ægypt cycle. His most recent novel is Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr. He teaches at Yale University.

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Tom Barry

Tom Barry is Director of the TransBorder Project at the Center for International Policy and author of Border Wars.

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Mona El-Ghobashy

Mona El-Ghobashy is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Barnard College and a Carnegie Scholar.

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Alfred F. Young

Alfred F. Young (1925–2012) was Professor of History at Northern Illinois University and the author of many books, including The Shoemaker and the Tea Party and Liberty Tree: Ordinary People and the American Revolution.

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Colin Dayan

Colin Dayan is Robert Penn Warren Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University. Her books include The Law Is a White DogThe Story of Cruel and Unusual, and Haiti, History, and the Gods.

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John Chu

John Chu designs microprocessors by day and writes fiction by night. This is his first publication.

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Jowei Chen

Jowei Chen is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan.

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Jonathan Rodden

Jonathan Rodden is Associate Professor of Political Science at Stanford University.

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Douglas Haynes

Douglas Haynes is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. His essays and poems have appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, Orion, Upside Down World, and elsewhere.

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David Graeber

David Graeber (1961–2020) was an American anthropologist and anarchist activist. His many books included Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Bullshit Jobs, and The Utopia of Rules.

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Ryan D. Enos

Ryan D. Enos is Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard University.

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Dara O’Rourke

Dara O’Rourke is Co-Founder of GoodGuide and Associate Professor of Environmental and Labor Policy at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Jonathan Brater

Jonathan Brater serves as counsel for the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law.

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Natasha Bahrami

Natasha Bahrami is a foreign policy researcher in Washington, D.C.

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Jason Anthony

Jason Anthony is an editor, speaker, and game designer. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, Christian Century, and The Record.

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Ali Ansari

Ali Ansari is professor of Iranian History at the University of St. Andrews and author of Confronting Iran: The Failure of American Foreign Policy and the Next Great Crisis in the Middle East.

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Trita Parsi

Trita Parsi is executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. His latest book is Losing an Enemy: Obama, Iran and the Triumph of Diplomacy.

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Hillary Mann Leverett

Hillary Mann Leverett teaches U.S. foreign policy at American University’s School of International Service. She is coauthor of The Race for Iran.

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Flynt Leverett

Flynt Leverett is professor of international affairs at Penn State and coauthor of The Race for Iran.

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