Dr. Bernard Weiner, co-editor of the progressive website The Crisis Papers (www.crisispapers.org), has taught American politics and international relations at Western Washington University and San Diego State University. He was an anti-war activist and activist journalist in the ‘60s and '70s, and served as an editor of Northwest Passage in the Pacific Northwest. He was with the San Francisco Chronicle for nearly twenty years as a writer/editor/critic, and has published in The Nation, Village Voice, The Progressive, CounterPunch, The Progressive Populist, and widely on the internet. He is the author of “Boy Into Man: A Fathers’ Guide to Initiation of Teenage Sons” (Transformation Press), four volumes of poetry, and numerous plays. He lives in San Francisco.