Authors

Roger Owen Roger Owen

Roger Owen is the A.J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History at Harvard University. His books include Cotton and the Egyptian Economy, 1820-1914 (1969), The Middle East in the Wor…

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Timothy Patrick McCarthy Timothy Patrick McCarthy

Timothy Patrick McCarthy teaches history, literature, and public policy at Harvard University, where he also directs the Sexuality, Gender, and Human Rights Program at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. An award-winning scholar, teacher and activist, he has published four books—The Radical Reader: A Documentary History of the American Radical Tradition (New Press, 2003); Prophets of Protest: Reconsidering the History of American Abolitionism (New Press, 2006); Protest Nation: Words That Inspired a Century of American Radicalism (New Press, 2010); and The Indispensable Zinn: The Essential Writings of the People’s Historian (New Press, 2012). He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Mary Ambrose Mary Ambrose

Mary Ambrose is managing editor of New America Media.

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Richard Rodriguez Richard Rodriguez

Richard Rodriguez is a contributing editor at New America Media in San Francisco and a regular contributor to The News Hour on PBS. He writes regularly for several newspapers and m…

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Anna McCarthy Anna McCarthy

Anna McCarthy teaches cinema studies at NYU and co-edits the journal Social Text…

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Alexander Zaitchik Alexander Zaitchik

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Simon Prentis Simon Prentis

Simon Prentis is UK-based writer and a translator and interpreter of Japanese. He is currently working on a book entitled “Beyond Culture: The Human Project.”…

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Christopher Ketcham Christopher Ketcham

Christopher Ketcham is a freelance writer living in Brooklyn, New York, and Moab, Utah. His work is at http://www.christopherketcham.com.

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Sony Labou Tansi Sony Labou Tansi

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Elisabeth Young-Bruehl Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, a psychoanalyst in Manhattan, is the author, most recently, of Why Arendt Matters (Yale).

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