Michael Gould-Wartofsky is a writer, ethnographer, and human-rights activist from New York City. He is the author of The Occupiers (Oxford, 2015) and American Inquisitions (forthcoming in 2025), and has written for The Washington Post, The Daily Beast, Gizmodo, Jacobin, Al Jazeera, Mother Jones, and The Nation. You can read more of his work at mgouldwartofsky.com.