Scheer Intelligence Creators & Guests

Warren Martin Hern is an American physician best known for performing late terminations of pregnancy.

Peter Kornbluh is an author, and Director of the National Security Archive's Chile and Cuba Documentation Project.

Zev Yaroslavsky is a politician. He served on the Los Angeles City Council from 1975 to 1994 and on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors from 1974 to 2014, when he retired from Los Angeles politics.Currently, Yaroslavsky is the Director of the Los Angeles Initiative at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and the Department of History, where his work focuses on the intersection of policy, politics and history of the Los Angeles region.Yaroslavsky received his B.A. in Economics and History and his M.A. in British Imperial History from the University of California Los Angeles.

Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti was a poet, painter, social activist, and co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers.Ferlinghetti wrote poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, and film narration. He was best known for his second collection of poems, "A Coney Island of the Mind," which was published in 1958.Ferlinghetti served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, then received his M.A. in English literature from Columbia University and his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Paris.When Ferlinghetti turned 100 in March 2019, the city of San Francisco created the annual "Lawrence Ferlinghetti Day" on his birthday, March 24. He died in February of 2021.

Sandy Tolan is a journalist and author. He reports on Palestine and Israel.Currently, Tolan is a professor at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. He is a co-founder of the documentary production company Homelands Productions.Tolan's first book, "Me and Hank: A Boy and His Hero, Twenty-Five Years Later," a memoir and portrait of American race relations told through professional baseball, was published in 2000. His second book, "The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East," about the lives of a Palestinian and an Israeli who lived in the same house before and after 1948, was published in 2006. His third book, "Children of the Stone: The Power of Music in A Hard Land," about a Palestinian man’s dream to build a music school during the Israeli military occupation, was published in 2015.

Adam Winkler is a professor of constitutional law at the UCLA School of Law. He is the author of Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America, and a commentator about legal issues.

Howard Bryant is an author, sports journalist, and radio & television personality, he writes weekly columns for ESPN & ESPN The Magazine and appears regularly on ESPN Radio.

Hugh Wilford is the author of the book: "The CIA: An Imperial History" (Basic Books, 2024).

Dr. Joel Beinin is a historian whose work focuses on the social history and political economy of modern Egypt, Palestine, and Israel, and on U.S. policy in the Middle East. Currently, he is Professor of History and professor of Middle East history at Stanford University.Previously, Beinin was a professor of history and director of Middle East studies at the American University in Cairo. He has written or edited twelve books.Beinin received his B.A. in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University, his M.A. in Middle East Studies from Harvard University, and his M.A.L.S. in Library Science and his Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan.