Helen C. Epstein is Visiting Professor of Global Public Health and Human Rights at Bard College. She is the author of two previous books, including Another Fine Mess:America, Uganda, and the War on Terror (Columbia Global Reports). Her writing has appeared in the New York Review of Books and the New York Times Magazine, among other publications, and she has worked as a consultant for such organizations as the World Bank, UNICEF, and Human Rights Watch. She lives in New York City.