Richard Bernstein is the Vera List Professor of Philosophy and former dean of the graduate facility at The New School. He has written a dozen books including The Pragmatic Turn (2010),The Abuse of Evil: The Corruption of Politics and Religion since 9/11 (2006), and Radical Evil: A Philosophical Interrogation (2002). Bernstein specializes in American pragmatism, social and political philosophy, critical theory, and Anglo-American philosophy.