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Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. Prior to rejoining the Harvard faculty, Lessig was a professor at Stanford Law…

Jonathan B. Tucker managed the Biosecurity Education Project at the Federation of American Scientists in Washington, DC. Previously he spent nearly 15 years at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) of the Monterey Institute of International Studies, initially…

An acclaimed novelist, essayist, biographer, and critic, Geoffrey Wolff is a prominent voice in contemporary American literature. Wolff is professor of English and comparative literature at the University of California, Irvine, where he is the director of the graduate fiction…

Laura Owens was born in Euclid, Ohio, in 1970. After receiving a BFA at the Rhode Island School of Design, in 1992, Owens went on to study at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, in Maine, in 1994, and the…

Wai-yee Li is professor of Chinese literature at Harvard University. She has taught at Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her expertise spans nearly two thousand years of literary endeavor, from antiquity to the late-imperial…

Acclaimed journalist Thomas Powers is a specialist on issues of intelligence, security, terrorism, and counterterrorism. His is the author of three nonfiction books: Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda (New York Review Books, 2002); Heisenberg's War: The…

Michael Taussig is one of the most innovative, distinguished, and socially engaged voices in cultural anthropology. An interdisciplinary thinker and engaging writer, Taussig's work combines aspects of ethnography, story-telling, and social theory. His publications include two Spanish-language books on the…

Esra Özyürek is an associate professor and the chair of contemporary Turkish studies at the European Institute, London School of Economics. Her research concerns secularism and Islam, ideologies of state and citizenship, productions of public and private, alternative modernities, and…

C. Brian Rose is James B. Pritchard Professor of Archaeology and Curator-in-Charge of the Mediterranean Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Since 1988 he has been head of Post-Bronze Age excavations at Troy, and is…

Anne Applebaum is a columnist for the Washington Post and Slate, covering US and international politics, and the political director of the Legatum Institute in London. She writes regularly for a range of publications in Britain and the US, including…