FROM HOW OUR INTUITIONS DECEIVE US -- TO THE MEANING OF WAR -- 32 AUTHORS HAVE ALREADY TAKEN PART ... IN PRETENSE
PROF. CHRISTOPHER CHABRIS
CO-AUTHOR, THE INVISIBLE GORILLA: HOW OUR INTUITIONS DECEIVE US
Professor, Institute for Advanced Application, Geisinger Health System
Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, France
Associate Professor of Psychology, Union College [on leave 2016-17]
Formerly: Lecturer and Research Associate, Department of Psychology, Harvard University
ELLIS COSE
AUTHOR, THE RAGE OF A PRIVILEGED CLASS
Former writer for The Chicago Sun-times, Time Magazine, The New York Daily News, and The Detroit Free Press; and fellow at the Gannett Center for Media Studies at Columbia University, at the National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences, a senior fellow and director of energy policy studies at the Washington-based Joint Center for Political Studies, and a consultant to the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations.
DERALD WING SUE
AUTHOR, RACE TALK AND THE CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE
Professor of counseling and psychology, Teachers College Columbia University
PROF. JOHN SHELTON LAWRENCE
CO-AUTHOR, THE MYTH OF THE AMERICAN SUPERHERO
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Morningside College
PROF. SHELLY TOCHLUK
AUTHOR, WITNESSING WHITENESS: THE NEED TO TALK ABOUT RACE AND HOW TO DO IT
Chair, Education Department, Mount Saint Mary’s University
PROF. CHARLES TABER
CO-AUTHOR, THE RATIONALIZING VOTER
Dean of the Graduate School and Vice Provost for Graduate Education, Stony Brook University
Professor of Political Science
PROF. JAMES MANSEAU SAUCEDA
AUTHOR, BUDDHA'S TOOTH
Director, Multicultural Center at California State University , Long Beach
MUGUMBAI JOUET
AUTHOR, EXCEPTIONAL AMERICA: WHAT DIVIDES AMERICANS FROM THE WORLD AND FROM EACH OTHER
Thomas C. Grey Fellow, Stanford Law School
PROF. SAMUEL ABRAMS
CO-AUTHOR, CULTURE WAR? THE MYTH OF A POLARIZED AMERICA
Professor of Politics, Sarah Lawrence University
Research fellow, Stanford University's Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace; faculty fellow at Center for Advanced Social Science Research, NYU; member of the Council on Foreign Relations
ASSOC. PROF. PAULA LOANIDE, PhD
AUTHOR, THE EMOTIONAL POLITICS OF RACISM: HOW FEELINGS TRUMP FACTS IN AN ERA OF COLORBLINDNESS
Center for the Study of Culture, Race & Ethnicity, Ithaca College
BENJAMIN RADFORD
AUTHOR, MEDIA MYTH MAKERS: HOW JOURNALISTS, ACTIVISTS, AND ADVERTISERS MISLEAD US
Deputy editor of Skeptical Inquirer science magazine
Research Fellow with the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
Author of over a thousand articles on topics including urban legends, the paranormal, critical thinking, and media literacy
PROF. JOHN HIBBING
CO-AUTHOR, PREDISPOSED: LIBERALS, CONSERVATIVES, AND THE BIOLOGY OF POLITICAL DIFFERENCES
Foundation Regents University Professor of Political Science, University of Nebraska
MATTHEW ALPER
AUTHOR, THE GOD PART OF THE BRAIN; A SCIENTIFIC INTERPRETATION OF HUMAN SPIRITUALITY AND GOD
Author, lecturer
Contributor to emerging science of Neurotheology
PROF. CRAIG PRENTISS
EDITOR, RELIGION AND THE CREATION OF RACE AND ETHNICITY
Professor of Theology and Religious Studies, Rockhurst College
PROF. KARINA KOROSTELINA
AUTHOR, POLITICAL INSULTS: HOW OFFENSES ESCALATE CONFLICT
Professor and Director of the Program on History Memory and Conflict at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University
PROF. ROBERT SAMUELS
AUTHOR, PSYCHOANALYZING THE LEFT AND RIGHT AFTER DONALD TRUMP
President of the faculty union University of California-American Federation of Teachers and lecturers for the University of California -- Santa Barbara Writing Program
ANTHONY SUAU
PHOTOGRAPHER, FEAR THIS
Pulitzer-winning photo journalist
Formerly: contract photographer for Time Magazine, 1991-2009; work has also appeared in...
JACK CASHILL
AUTHOR, HOODWINKED: HOW INTELLECTUAL HUCKSTERS HAVE HIJACKED AMERICAN CULTURE
Journalist, blogger for WND
Has written for Fortune, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The Weekly Standard
Has taught media and literature at Purdue and other universities
MATTHEW HUTSON
AUTHOR, THE 7 LAWS OF MAGICAL THINKING
Writer, researcher -- work has appeared in Newsweek, Wired, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, Discover, Scientific American Mind, Popular Mechanics, New Scientist, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times; former News Editor for Psychology Today
PROF. DEBORAH TANNEN
AUTHOR, THE ARGUMENT CULTURE
Professor of Linguistics, Georgetown University
Has been McGraw Distinguished Lecturer at Princeton University and was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences following a term in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study
PROF. RUSSELL NEUMAN
Professor of Media Technology, New York University, Steinhardt
Formerly John Derby Evans Professor of Media Technology in Communication Studies and Research Professor
at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan; also taught at University of Pennsylvania, Harvard,
Yale and MIT
DEBBY IRVING
AUTHOR, WAKING UP WHITE, AND FINDING MYSELF IN THE STORY OF RACE
Racial justice educator/writer
PROF. BRYAN CAPLAN
AUTHOR, THE MYTH OF THE RATIONAL VOTER
Professor of economics at George Mason University
Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center
Adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute
Blogger for EconLog
JESSE WALKER
AUTHOR, THE UNITED STATES OF PARANOIA: A CONSPIRACY THEORY
Books editor, Reason Magazine
Articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Salon, The New Republic, L.A. Times, L.A. Weekly, Chronicles, and No Depression
DAVID FITZGERALD
AUTHOR, JESUS: MYTHING IN ACTION
Historical writer, public speaker, and atheist activist
PROF. EDWARD J. BLUM
AUTHOR, THE COLOR OF CHRIST; THE SON OF GOD AND THE SAGE OF RACE IN AMERICA
Professor of History, San Diego State University
PROF. LESLIE SMITH
AUTHOR, RIGHTEOUS RHETORIC: SEX, SPEECH AND THE POLITICS OF CONCERNED WOMEN FOR AMERICA
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Chair of the Women’s and Gender Studies Department, Avila College
PROF. ANDREW HARTMAN
AUTHOR, A WAR FOR THE SOUL OF AMERICA: A HISTORY OF THE CULTURE WARS
History Dept., Illinois State University
PROF. ROBERT NELSON
PROF. ALLEN FRANCES, M.D.
AUTHOR, GOD? VERY PROBABLY
School of Public Policy of the University of Maryland
AUTHOR, THE TWILIGHT OF AMERICAN SANITY
Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Duke University
PROF. JOSEPH MCKENNA, PhD
Senior Lecturer, Department of History & Program in Religious StudiesUniversity of California, Irvine
Writer for Huffington Post and Patheos
