Andy Schmookler

Andrew Bard Schmookler is a Pulitzer-nominated columnist, speaker, radio talk-show host, and former Democratic nominee for Congress in Virginia.  Since the late 1960s, Andy Schmookler has investigated the ways that forces – constructive and, especially, destructive – operate in civilized societies.  Among his books are several bearing on the problem of war and peace, including the prize-winning book "The Parable of the Tribes: The Problem of Power in Social Evolution".