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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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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 Dog, The 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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