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Joel
Schwartz
Joel Schwartz has taught political science at the University of Michigan, the University of Toronto, and the University of Virginia; served as executive editor of The Public Interest; and conducted research at the Statistical Assessment Service and the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC. Among his publications are The Sexual Politics of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984), Fighting Poverty with Virtue: Moral Reform and America's Urban Poor, 1825-2000 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000) and (with David Murray and S. Robert Lichter) It Ain't Necessarily So: How Media Make and Unmake the Scientific Picture of Reality (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001). He is currently an adjunct senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, a contributing editor of Philanthropy, and a program office in the Division of Research Programs of The National Endowment for the Humanities.