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Jonathan Schell

Senior Fellow

Jonathan Schell is the author of 13 books. They include The Fate of the Earth (Knopf, 1982), which received the Los Angeles Times book prize, among other awards, and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Critics Award; The Village of Ben Suc (Knopf, 1967); The Military Half (Knopf, 1968); The Time of Illusion (Knopf, 1976); The Abolition (Knopf, 1984); History in the Sherman Park (Knopf, 1987); The Real War (Pantheon, 1988); Observing the Nixon Years (Pantheon, 1989); The Gift of Time (Metropolitan Books, 1998); The Unfinished Twentieth Century (Verso, 2001); and The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People (Metropolitan, 2003), which Richard Falk in the Times called "the most impressive argument ever made that there exists a viable and desirable alternative to a continued reliance on war." His most recent book is The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of the Nuclear Danger (Metropolitan, 2007). According to a New York Times review, Schell's "careful assembly of the available evidence will scare the pants off most readers."

Schell was born in New York City in 1943. He graduated from Harvard University in 1965. From 1967 until 1987, he was a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he served as the principal writer of the magazine's Notes and Comment section. He was a columnist for Newsday from 1990 until 1996. He has taught at many universities, including Princeton, Emory, New York University, the New School, Wesleyan University and the Yale Law School. He is currently a Visiting Lecturer at Yale College.

In 1987, he was a fellow at the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of government and in 2002 a fellow at the Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. In 2003, he was a visiting lecturer at the Yale Law School, and in 2005, a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Yale's Center for the Study of Globalization.

Since 1998, he has been a Senior Fellow at The Nation Institute, where he is now based, and the Peace and Disarmament Correspondent for The Nation magazine.

He appears often on radio and television, including Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, the Lehrer News Hour, the Charlie Rose Show, and Hardball with Chris Matthews. His recent articles on the nuclear question include essays in The Nation, Foreign Affairs, and Harper's, of which he is a contributing editor.

Forthcoming Appearances:

The Forgotten Threat: Nuclear Arms
Jonathan Schell speaks at Wellesley College, MA, in a lecture that's open to the public. May 2, 4 p.m.
More information here.

Jonathan Schell Wins Award at Thinking Outside the Bomb Conference
Senior Fellow Jonathan Schell will accept the 2008 John and Chara Haas Award for International Peace and Social Justice at 6 p.m. on May 10 during the Project for Nuclear Awareness conference, Thinking Outside the Bomb.
More information here.

Selected Articles and Appearances:

Jonathan Schell on Book-TV
Appearance | C-SPAN2, Book-TV | February 24, 2008

A Discussion with Jonathan Schell
Appearance | Charlie Rose | February 12, 2008

A Season of 'Change'
Article | The Nation | January 7, 2008

How Nuclear Policies Have Changed Under the Bush White House
Appearance | The Leonard Lopate Show | December 10, 2007

The Seventh Decade: Jonathan Schell on "The New Shape of Nuclear Danger"
Appearance | Democracy Now! | December 7, 2007

Jonathan Schell, Bomb in the Mind
Interview | TomDispatch.com | December 4, 2007

Are You With Us… or Against Us?
OP-ED | TomDispatch.com | November 13, 2007

Book Reviews:

Bombs Away: Jonathan Schell
The Seventh Decade | Express | January 7, 2008

Smoking Guns and Mushroom Clouds
The Seventh Decade | The New York Times | November 25, 2007

Read the rest of Jonathan Schell's articles for The Nation here.

See Jonathan Schell's previous appearances on The Charlie Rose Show here

EMAIL: Jschell@thenation.com

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