THE INTERVIEW SUBJECTS

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...

National Geographic, Paris Match, Stern, The New York Times Magazine, The Sunday Times Magazine, Life

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

AUTHOR, THE AFFECT EFFECT: THE DYNAMICS OF EMOTION IN POLITICAL THINKING AND BEHAVIOR

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

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