Benjamin Ginsberg is a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and the David Bernstein Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Center for Advanced Governmental Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author, co-author or editor of more than thirty books including The Fatal Embrace: Jews and the State; The Fall of the Faculty; Presidential Government; Downsizing Democracy; The Captive Public; Politics By Other Means; The Value of Violence; How the Jews Defeated Hitler; America’s State Governments: A Critical Look at Disconnected Democracies; What Washington Gets Wrong and Warping Time. His college text, We the People, now in its 14th edition, has been the nation’s most frequently used American government text for the past three decades.Ginsberg received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1973 and was Professor of Government at Cornell until 1992 when he joined the Hopkins faculty.