Daniel Spiro wears many hats. He is a Senior Trial Counsel for the U.S. Department of Justice specializing in fighting corporate fraud. He coordinates the Jewish-Islamic Dialogue Society of Washington, DC, and the Washington Spinoza Society, both of which he cofounded. He is an activist in the pursuit of Middle East peace, blogs under the name Empathic Rationalist, and is the author of The Creed Room (2006) and Moses the Heretic (2008).