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Dyson, Esther
Debate: Google Violates its Don't be Evil Motto
Investor and Director of 23andMe and Yandex
Ester is well qualified to opine on Google. In 1997, she wrote Release 2.0: A Design for Living in the Digital Age, about the impact of the Internet on individuals… more
Easterly, William
Debate: Aid to Africa is Doing More Harm Than Good
Professor of Economics at New York University, Joint with Africa House, and Co-Director of NYU’s Development Research Institute
William is also a non-resident fellow of the Center for Global Development in Washington, DC. His areas of expertise are the determinants of long-run economic growth and the effectiveness of… more
Eizenstat, Stuart
Debate: The US Should Step Back From Its Special Relationship With Israel
Chief White House Domestic Policy Adviser
Has held a number of key senior positions in three US administrations, including chief White House domestic policy adviser to President Jimmy Carter; U.S. ambassador to the European Union, under… more
Ekwurzel, Brenda
Debate: Global Warming is Not a Crisis
Member of the Union of Concerned Scientists
Brenda works on the national climate program at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). Prior to joining UCS, she was on the faculty of the University of Arizona. Doctorate research… more
Epstein, Richard
Debate: Congress Should Pass Obama's Jobs Plan - Piece by Piece
The Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law, New York University Law School, and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago
Richard Epstein is the inaugural Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and… more
Falkenrath, Richard
Debate: It's Time to End the War on Terror
Homeland Security Policy Adviser to Pres. Bush, 2001-2003
Richard Falkenrath, who was the Deputy Assistant to President Bush and Deputy Homeland Security Advisor, is no stranger to the complexities involved with the United States’ large-scale effort to combat… more
Farley, Melissa
Debate: It's Wrong to Pay for Sex
Clinical and Research Psychologist with San Francisco based Nonprofit Prostitution Research & Education and an Associate Scholar with the Center for World Indigenous Studies
Melissa wrote Prostitution and Trafficking in Nevada: Making the Connections (2007) and Prostitution, Trafficking, and Traumatic Stress (2003). She has published 22 peer-reviewed articles on prostitution and trafficking. An abolitionist,… more
Feigen, Richard
Debate: The Art Market is Less Ethical Than the Stock Market
Founder of Richard L. Feigen & Co. art dealers, Art Collector and Author
Richard is an active collector of early Italian and Baroque paintings, English landscapes, surrealists, Max Beckmann and contemporary art. He founded Richard L. Feigen & Co. art dealers, which had… more
Ferguson, Charles
Debate: America is Finally Winning the War in Iraq
Writer/Director of No End in Sight, a documentary about U.S. policy in Iraq
Charles received his PhD in Political Science from M.I.T. After selling Vermeer Technologies of which he was co-founder, Ferguson has been a visiting scholar at M.I.T. and U.C. Berkeley, a… more
Ferguson, Niall
Debate: Blame Washington More Than Wall Street for the Financial Crisis
Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, a senior research fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University, and a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University
The bestselling author of Paper and Iron, The House of Rothschild, The Pity of War, The Cash Nexus, Empire, Colossus (2002) and The War of the World (2006), Niall also… more
