Hayden White was Bonsall Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University. He specialized in Modern European cultural history, philosophy of history, literary theory, social theory, and literary history. White served as University of California Exchange Professor at the University of…
David Rieff is an American writer and policy analyst. He has written widely on topics ranging from war, human rights, and humanitarian assistance in Africa, to Third World immigration to the United States, to cultural issues. He covered the Bosnian…
Amity Shlaes is a senior columnist on political economy at the Financial Times. She writes twice weekly for the paper and its website from New York. Shlaes formerly served as a member of the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal,…
Karen Yasinsky is an artist working primarily with animation and drawing. Her video installations and drawings have been shown in many venues internationally including the Mori Art Musuem, Tokyo, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art, NY, UCLA Hammer Museum, L.A. and Kunst…
Composer and violist Kurt Rohde lives in San Francisco. Recipient of the Charles Ives Fellowship and the Hinrichsen Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and commission awards from the Koussevitzky Foundation…
Howard Rosen is a resident visiting fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, where he is developing detailed proposals for reforming US labor-market adjustment programs. He is also executive director of the Trade Adjustment Assistance Coalition, which he established…
W. S. Di Piero is the author of ten books of poetry, the most recent of which is Nitro Nights. His poems have appeared frequently in Poetry, New Yorker, and Threepenny Review, and he has reviewed books for the New…
John Phillip Santos joined the Ford Foundation in 1997 as a Program Officer in the Media, Arts and Culture Program, where he managed the Foundation's Media Projects Fund and international initiatives involving new media technologies. Originally from San Antonio,…
Robert Leiken was an American intellectual, political scientist, and historian. He was the Director of the Immigration and National Security Program and the Mexico Program at the Center for the National Interest.
Adam Garfinkle is founding editor of The American Interest. Before founding the magazine, in 2005, he served in 2003-05 as principal speechwriter to the Secretary of State (S/P, Policy Planning). He has also been editor of the National Interest and has…