William Pfaff is a contributor to The New York Review of Books and has been an internationally syndicated columnist for The International Herald Tribune for many years. Between 1971 and 1992 his 'Reflections' on international politics and society were regularly published in The New Yorker magazine. He has published eight books on contemporary history. His most recent one, The Bullet's Song, deals with violence and romanticism. He is currently working on a book about secular political utopianism and the current international crisis. He lives in Paris.