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Pamela S. Karlan

Pamela S. Karlan is Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law at Stanford Law School and coauthor of Keeping Faith with the Constitution. In 2021 and 2022 she served as principal deputy assistant attorney general in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.

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Claude S. Fischer

Claude S. Fischer is Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. His many books include Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth.

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Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow

Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow is a journalist based in Southern California. Her latest book is Atomic Dreams: The New Nuclear Evangelists and the Fight for the Future of Energy.

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Stephanie Burt

Stephanie Burt, Professor of English at Harvard University, is author of several books, most recently the poetry collection We Are Mermaids.

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Roger Boylan

Roger Boylan’s books include Killoyle, The Great Pint-Pulling OlympiadKilloyle Wine and Cheese, and, most recently, The Adorations.

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Tommie Shelby

Tommie Shelby is Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy at Harvard University and the author of Dark Ghettos.

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Andra Gillespie

Andra Gillespie is Associate Professor of Political Science at Emory University and author of The New Black Politician: Cory Booker, Newark, and Post-Racial America.

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William Julius Wilson

William Julius Wilson is Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University. His latest book is More Than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City.

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Michael C. Dawson

Michael C. Dawson is John D. MacArthur Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and author of Blacks In and Out of the Left.

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Joshua Cohen

Joshua Cohen is coeditor of Boston Review, Distinguished Senior Fellow in law, philosophy, and political science at the University of California, Berkeley, and member of the faculty at Apple University. His books include The Arc of the Moral Universe and Other Papers.

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Margot Schilpp

Margot Shilpp is author of the poetry collections Civil Twilight, Laws of My Nature, and The World’s Last Night.

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Jeanne Mansfield

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Deborah Chasman

Deborah Chasman is publisher and coeditor of Boston Review. Her writing has also appeared in New York magazine and the Chronicle of Higher Education.

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Shikha Dalmia

 

Shikha Dalmia is Senior Policy Analyst at the Reason Foundation, a columnist at The Daily, and a contributor to The Wall Street JournalThe Los Angeles Times, and The Chicago Tribune.

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Mike Konczal

Mike Konczal served as Special Assistant to President Biden on the National Economic Council and was formerly Director of Macroeconomic Analysis fellow at the Roosevelt Institute.

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Rick Perlstein

Rick Perlstein's latest book is The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan.

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David B. Grusky

David B. Grusky is Professor of Sociology at Stanford University, Director of the Center on Poverty and Inequality, and co-editor of Pathways.

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Akbar Ganji

Akbar Ganji is one of Iran’s leading political dissidents and has received over a dozen human rights awards for his efforts. Imprisoned in Iran until 2006, he is author of one book in English, The Road to Democracy in Iran, which lays out a strategy for a nonviolent transition to democracy in Iran.

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Matt Gallagher

Matt Gallagher is a writer and Iraq War veteran. His latest novel is Daybreak.

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Nate Mullins

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David V. Johnson

David V. Johnson is deputy editor at the Stanford Social Innovation Review and coeditor and cofounder of The Raven. He was formerly the web editor of Boston Review.

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Vivian Rothstein

Vivian Rothstein is a labor rights activist, feminist, and community organizer. She cofounded the Chicago Women’s Liberation Union.

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Richard J. Murnane

Richard J. Murnane is the Thompson Professor of Education and Society at Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. 

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Reg Weaver

Reg Weaver is vice president of Education International, and a former president of the National Education Association. 

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