Eric Alterman is a political & cultural columnist for The Nation, MSNBC.com, & Intellectual Capital.com & is a senior fellow of the World Policy Institute. He has contributed to Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, Elle, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Harpers, The New Republic, The New York Times & The Washington Post. He is the author also of two works of political commentary & analysis Sound & Fury & Who Speaks for America. He lives in Manhattan.