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John Horgan

John Horgan is the director of the Center for Science Writings at Stevens Institute of Technology, in Hoboken, New Jersey. He was a senior writer at Scientific American for more than a decade, and has also written for the New York Times, Time, Newsweek, the Washington Post, the Times Literary Supplement, and other publications around the world. He blogs for Bloggingheads.tv and writes a column called The Last Word for BBC Knowledge Magazine.

Nonfiction – Issue 9

Reconciling Hawks and Doves: On the Possibility of Ending War

Early in 2003, Frank Geer, an Episcopal priest in my hometown, invited me to speak at the old stone church where he serves as pastor. At the time, everyone was fretting over whether the United States was going to invade…