Eli MerrittEli Merritt, editor and contributor, is a psychiatrist and political historian at Vanderbilt University. He has written for The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and American Journal of Legal History, among other publications. He wrtes the Substack newsletter American Commonwealth. Other contributing writers include Jill Abramson, Michael Austin, Frank O. Bowman, III, Curtis A. Bradley, Michael A. Cohen, Barbara Comstock, Joseph J. Ellis, Jeff Flake, Megan Garber, Bryan Garsten, Jennifer Mercieca, Yaël Ossowski, Darryl Paulson, Frederic C. Rich, James Risen, Michael Signer, Andrew Sullivan, Andrew Trees, Jesse Wegman, and Richard Ashby Wilson. Read More Read Less