Gregg Easterbrook has been a contributing editor at Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report. A senior editor of The New Republic and a contributing editor for Atlantic Monthly and Washington Monthly, Easterbrook is a two-time winner of the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award and a distinguished fellow of the Fulbright Foundation. He is the author of several critically acclaimed books, including The Progress Paradox and Beside Still Waters: Searching for Meaning in an Age of Doubt. His website is greggeasterbrook.com.