Michael Alexander Gould-Wartofsky is a writer from New York City and a MacCracken Fellow in Sociology at New York University. A native of New York City and a graduate of Harvard College, his work has appeared in The Nation, The Huffington Post, The Harvard Crimson, Monthly Review, Common Dreams, TomDispatch, and in the collections Poets Against the War (Nation Books, 2003) and Imagining Iraq (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). He is currently writing a book about Occupy Wall Street. His website is www.michaelgouldwartofsky.com.