Jonathan Schell

Jonathan Schell, The Nation‘s peace and disarmament correspondent, is also the Harold Willens Peace Fellow at the Nation Institute. Formerly a writer and editor with The New Yorker, he has written extensively on the nuclear question. He graduated from Harvard University in 1965. From 1967 until 1987, he was the principal writer of The New Yorker‘s Notes & Comments section. Schell is the author of several books including The Village of Ben Suc; The Military Half; The Time of Illusion; The Fate of the Earth (nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the National Critics Award); The Abolition; History in Sherman Park; The Real War; and Observing the Nixon Years. From 1990 until 1996, Schell wrote a column for Newsday and New York Newsday. His most recent book Writing in Time is a selection of these columns. Schell’s writings have also appeared in Harper’s, The Atlantic Monthly and The Washington Post. He has won several awards, including the George Polk Award, the L.A. Times Book Award, the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award and the Melcher Book Award. In 1989, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and, in 1990, the MacArthur Foundation Grant for Writing on Peace and Security. Schell has taught at Princeton University, New York University’s School of Journalism, Emory University, Wesleyan University and The New School for Social Research. He will design, create a syllabus and produce some lectures for a course that reflects on the solutions the citizens of the United States have come up with to fill a large gap left in our Constitution: how, in addition to voting once every few years, they are to conduct the actual politics of the United States.