Claudia Dreifus

Claudia Dreifus writes the "Conversation with..." feature in the Tuesday Science Section of the New York Times.

She's also an Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University's School of International and Policy Affairs where she teaches courses in writing about international relations and also on writing about global science.

Many of her students have gone on to have successful careers in media and in diplomacy.

"Higher Education?" is Dreifus' sixth book and her first published collaboration. Her co-author on this work was Andrew Hacker, contributor to the New York Review of Books, her life-partner.

And now that they've written a book together, they are both feel they've developed the skills to negotiate world peace.