Zachary Shore is a professor in the department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School and a National Security Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He earned a DPhil from Oxford in history, served as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, and held a fellowship at Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Shore is the author of six books: What Hitler Knew: The Battle for Information in Nazi Foreign Policy (2003); Breeding Bin Ladens: America, Islam, and the Future of Europe (2006); Blunder: Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions (2008); A Sense of the Enemy: The High Stakes History of Reading Your Rival’s Mind (2014); Grad School Essentials: A Crash Course in Scholarly Skills (2016), and, most recently, This Is Not Who We Are: America’s Struggle Between Vengeance and Virtue (2023). His articles have appeared in Time, Politico, Foreign Policy, Los Angeles Times, The National Interest, and elsewhere. Shore’s work has been supported by the Council on Foreign Relations, Kurt A. Körber Foundation, and Institute of International Education, among others. Blind since adolescence, Shore is an advocate for improving opportunities for blind people.