Robert Boyers, born in Brooklyn NY in 1842 and educated at Queens College of the City of New York (BA 1963) and New York University (MA 1965), founded Salmagundi, an international quarterly, in 1965 and continues to edit the journal, to teach at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, and to direct the New York Sate Summer Writers Institute, which he founded in 1987. Boyers is the author of hundreds of periodical essays and reviews in publications such as The New Republic, Dissent, Partisan Review, Harpers, Granta, The Times Literary Supplement, among many other literary and political magazines. He is also the author of a dozen books, most recently, The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, the Academy and the Hunt for Political Heresies. His other books include The Fate of Ideas: Seductions, Betrayals, Appraisals, The Dictator's Dictation: The Politics of Novels and Novelists, and a volume of short stories, Excitable Women, Damaged Men. In 2009 he edited and wrote the introduction for George Steiner at The New Yorker, a volume that has been published in more than twenty languages.