Tod Lindberg is a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He is the author of the critically acclaimed The Political Teachings of Jesus, a philosophical analysis of the view of worldly affairs presented in Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount and Gospel parables. He is an acknowledged policy expert on international efforts to prevent and halt mass atrocities and genocide, and he is a member of the American Bar Association’s working group on crimes against humanity. He teaches ethics in international relations at Georgetown University. Currently a contributing editor at the Weekly Standard, his 30-year career as a journalist and editor in Washington DC has earned him wide respect across party lines for his political analysis. He and his wife Tina Lindberg live in Washington and Palo Alto, California. They have two grown daughters.