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	Andrew J. Bacevich Andrew J. Bacevich is a professor of international relations and history at Boston University. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1969, later serving in Vietnam, Germany, El Salvador, and the Persian Gulf. He received his Ph.D. in American diplomatic history from Princeton University. Before joining the faculty of Boston University in 1998, he taught at West Point and at Johns Hopkins University. Bacevich is the editor of The Long War: A New History of U.S. National Security Policy since World War II. His previous books include American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy, The Imperial Tense: Problems and Prospects of American Empire, and The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War. His essays and reviews have appeared in a wide variety of scholarly and general interest publications including, Wilson Quarterly, National Interest, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the Nation, American Conservative, and the New Republic. His op-eds have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and USA Today, among other newspapers.
	Peter Collier Peter Collier is a political commentaor, editor, and author of numerous books, including The Kennedys: An American Drama and The Roosevelts: An American Saga.
	Helene Cooper Helene Cooper is the diplomatic correspondent for the New York Times. Prior to joining the Times in 2004, she spent 12 years at the Wall Street Journal covering international economics, foreign policy, and the war in Iraq. She is the author of The House at Sugar Beach, a memoir about growing up in Liberia.
	Tom Gjelten Tom Gjelten is a correspondent for National Public Radio. Over the years, he has reported extensively from Europe and Latin America, including Cuba. He was reporting live from the Pentagon when it was attacked on September 11, 2001. Subsequently, he covered the war in Afghanistan and Iraq invasion as NPR's lead Pentagon correspondent. In prior years, Gjelten covered the first Gulf War and the wars in Croatia and Bosnia, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Colombia. From Berlin (1990–1994), he covered Europe's political and economic transition after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Gjelten's series From Marx to Markets, documenting Eastern Europe's transition to a market economy, earned him an Overseas Press Club award for the the Best Business or Economic Reporting in Radio or TV. His reporting from Bosnia earned him a second Overseas Press Club Award, a George Polk Award, and a Robert F Kennedy Journalism Award. Tom's books include Sarajevo Daily: A City and Its Newspaper Under Siege, which the New York Times called "a chilling portrayal of a city's slow murder." His 2008 book, Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba: The Biography of a Cause, was selected as a New York Times Notable Nonfiction Book.
	Roya Hakakian Roya Hakakian is a fellow at Yale University’s Whitney Humanities Center. She is a founding member of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center and serves on the board of Refugees International. She is a contributor to the Persian Literary Review and the weekend edition of All Things Considered. Her op-eds, essays, and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal. Her memoir of growing up a Jewish teenager in post-revolutionary Iran, Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran, was Publishers Weekly’s Best Book of the Year and Elle magazine’s Best Nonfiction Book of 2004. She is also a recipient of the 2008 Guggenheim fellowship in nonfiction. Hakakian came to the United States in 1985 on political asylum.
	Christopher Hitchens Christopher Hitchens is a columnist for Vanity Fair and the author of the bestselling book God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. Born in 1949 in Portsmouth, England, Hitchens received a degree in philosophy, politics, and economics from Balliol College, Oxford, in 1970.
	Robert Kagan Robert Kagan is currently based in Brussels. He is senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His most recent book, Dangerous Nation: America’s Place in the World from its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the 20th Century, was published in the fall of 2006 and was a 2007 finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize. His acclaimed book, Of Paradise and Power, was on the New York Times bestseller list for ten weeks and the Washington Post bestseller list for fourteen weeks, and has been translated into more than twenty-five languages. Dr. Kagan writes a monthly column on world affairs for the Washington Post and is a contributing editor at both the Weekly Standard and the New Republic. He served in the State Department from 1984 to 1988 as a member of the Policy Planning Staff, as principal speechwriter for Secretary of State George P. Shultz, and as deputy for policy in the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs. He is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and holds a Ph.D. in American History from American University.
	Michael Kazin Michael Kazin is a professor of history at Georgetown University. He writes about history and politics for a variety of scholarly and popular publications. He is the author of four books: A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan, America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s (with Maurice Isserman), The Populist Persuasion: An American History, and Barons of Labor: The San Francisco Building Trades and Union Power in the Progressive Era. He has also edited, with Joseph McCartin, Americanism: New Perspectives on the History of an Ideal and, with Frans Becker and Menno Hurenkamp, In Search of Progressive America.
	Joshua Muravchik Joshua Muravchik has been recognized by the Wall Street Journal as “maybe the most cogent and careful of the neoconservative writers on foreign policy.” He is a fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of the Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies and formerly a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He has published more than three hundred articles on politics and international affairs, appearing in, among others, the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, New York Times Magazine, Commentary, New Republic, and the Weekly Standard. His most recent book is The Next Founders: Voices of Democracy in the Middle East. He is the author of eight previous books, including Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism (selected by Choice as one of the Outstanding Academic Titles of 2002) and Exporting Democracy: Fulfilling America’s Destiny. Muravchik, who received his Ph.D. in International Relations from Georgetown University, is also an adjunct scholar at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and an adjunct professor at the Institute for World Politics. He serves on the editorial boards of World Affairs, Journal of Democracy, and the Journal of International Security Affairs. He formerly served as a member of the State Department’s Advisory Committee on Democracy Promotion, the Commission on Broadcasting to the People’s Republic of China, and the Maryland Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
	P. J. O’Rourke Patrick Jake O'Rourke is an American political satirist, journalist, and writer. O'Rourke started out writing comedy in the 1970s for the National Lampoon. Later he was a commentator-reporter for Rolling Stone. His new book is Peace Kills: America's Fun New Imperialism. O'Rourke is also the author of Eat the Rich, Parliament of Whores, and All the Trouble in the World. He is the H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute, a regular correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly, American Spectator, and Weekly Standard, and a frequent panelist on NPR's game show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! He was educated at Miami University and Johns Hopkins University.
	David Rieff David Rieff is a New York–based journalist and author. During the 1990s, he covered conflicts in Africa (Rwanda, Burundi, Congo, Liberia), the Balkans (Bosnia and Kosovo), and Central Asia. Now a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, he has written extensively about Iraq, and, more recently, Latin America. He is the author of eight books, including Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West and A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis. His memoir of his mother's final illness, Swimming in a Sea of Death, appeared in January 2008. Rieff is currently working on a book about the global food crisis.
	Ronald Steel Professor Steel teaches American foreign policy at the University of Southern California. In his studies, he combines elements not only of history and political science, but also of sociology, psychology, economics, and political anthropology. Steel's interest is reflected in his books on the impact of American relations with other nations, and particularly with Europe, as well as those studies that deal with powerful personalities who have had a determinant influence on policies and events. Three of his books—Pax Americana, The End of Alliance, and Temptations of a Superpower—analyze the forces that have governed American foreign relations since World War II. Three other books—Imperialists and Other Heroes, Walter Lippmann and the American Century, and In Love With Night: The American Romance with Robert Kennedy—are biographical studies of key individuals in American society and politics. He has received the National Book Critics' Circle Award, the Bancroft Prize in American History, the American Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
	Leon Wieseltier Leon Wieseltier is the literary editor of the New Republic. He is the author of Nuclear War Nuclear Peace, Against Identity, and Kaddish.

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