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Eyal Press was a Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation from 2009 to 2011. He is a contributing writer at the Nation and a journalist who has written extensively about politics, social issues and the world of ideas. His essays, reviews, and feature stories have appeared in the New York Review of Books, The New York Times, the Atlantic Monthly, Mother Jones, The Columbia Journalism Review and numerous other publications. His first book, Absolute Convictions, a narrative account of the abortion wars that racked the city of Buffalo, NY, was published by Henry Holt in 2006. He is currently working on a book about civil disobedience and acts of conscience, examining the flip side of the "banality of evil," that will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.