James Gilligan and David A.J. Richards

James Gilligan, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at New York University, is the author of Violence (1996), Preventing Violence (2001), and Why Some Politicians Are More Dangerous than Others (2011), a Times Literary Supplement “Book of the Year,” and co-authored The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump (2016), a New York Times best-seller. His advice has been sought by President Clinton, Tony Blair, Kofi Annan, the World Health Organization, and the World Court. David A.J. Richards is Professor of Law at New York University. He is the author of over twenty books, including Free Speech and the Politics of Identity (1999), Disarming Manhood: Roots of Ethical Resistance (2005), The Deepening Darkness: Patriarchy, Resistance, and Democracy's Future (Cambridge University Press, 2009, with Carol Gilligan), and Why Love Leads to Justice: Love across the Boundaries (Cambridge University Press, 2015).

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