BRUCE OLIVER NEWSOME teaches at the University of San Diego. He has held standing faculty positions at the University of Pennsylvania, University of California Berkeley, and the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom. Bruce earned a doctoral degree in International and Strategic Studies, a masters degree in Political Science, and a bachelors with honors in War Studies. He is the author of more than a dozen books in history and social science. He advocates for science and free speech on YouTube and Twitter as the "Risky Scientists." Bruce is a proud citizen of both Britain and America, and is fluent in both languages. As an academic, he often considered registering his sense of humor as a disability. He thought the same of his objectivity. As a male, his preferred pronoun is "he."