CONTRIBUTORS

DAVID COLE is the National Legal Director of the ACLU and the Honorable George J. Mitchell Professor in Law and Public Policy at the Georgetown University Law Center. His most recent book is Engines of Liberty: How Citizen Movements Succeed. MOLLY CRABAPPLE is the author of Drawing Blood and, with Marwan Hisham, of Brothers of the Gun. Her artwork is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. ERICA EHRENBERG has been a Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford and a Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. BEN FOUNTAIN’s most recent book is Beautiful Country Burn Again: Democracy, Rebellion, and Revolution. He is also the author of a novel, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, and a story collection, Brief Encounters with Che Guevara. GAVIN FRANCIS is a physician and writer in Edinburgh. He has won several awards for his books, which include Empire Antarctica, Adventures in Human Being, and, most recently, Shapeshifters: A

Journey Through the Changing Human Body. GILES HARVEY is a Contributing Writer at The New York Times Magazine. MAYA JASANOFF is the Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard. Her latest book is The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World. JOSEPH LEO KOERNER is Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Art and Architecture and Senior Fellow of the Society of Fellows at Harvard. His most recent book is Bosch and Bruegel: From Enemy Painting to Everyday Life. AVISHAI MARGALIT is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His most recent book is On Betrayal. ANGE MLINKO is an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Florida. Her fifth book of poems is Distant Mandate. JOHN NATHAN is Takashima Professor of Japanese Cultural Studies Emeritus at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He has translated novels by Yukio Mishima, Sōseki Natsume, and Kenzaburō Ōe. His books include Mishima: A Biography, Sōseki: Modern Japan’s Greatest Novelist, and Living Carelessly in Tokyo and Elsewhere. JAMES OAKES is a Distinguished Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center. His most recent book is The Scorpion’s Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War. ROBERT PINSKY’s recent works include the poetry collection At the Foundling Hospital and the CD PoemJazz II: House Hour, with the pianist Lawrence Hobgood. JONATHAN STEVENSON is a Senior Fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies and a lawyer. He served on the National Security Council staff as Director for Political-Military Affairs, Middle East and North Africa, from 2011 to 2013. JENNY UGLOW is the author of The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World and, most recently, Mr. Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense. ADRIAN NATHAN WEST is a literary translator and the author of The Aesthetics of Degradation. His latest translation is of Jean Amery’s Charles Bovary, Country Doctor: Portrait of a Simple Man.