Richard StiversRichard Stivers is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology Emeritus at Illinois State University. He is the author of Hair of the Dog: Irish Drinking and Its American Stereotype; Evil in Modern Myth and Ritual; Technology as Magic; Shades of Lonelines; The Illusion of Freedom and Equality; The Media Creates Us in Its Image and Other Essays on Technology and Culture; and, with James van der Laan, Religion in America Today. He gave three lectures based on his books to the European Commission in 2006. Read More Read Less