Aviezer Tucker is a philosopher and social scientist, author of The Philosophy of Politics of Czech Dissidents from Pato ka to Havel (2000) and Our Knowledge of the Past: A Philosophy of Historiography (2004). He published extensively in journals such as The American Interest, Critical Review, Foreign Affairs, History and Theory, Independent Review, Philosophy, Politics Philosophy and Economics, and Telos. He spent a decade working and conducting research in post-totalitarian Europe at the Central European University in Prague, Palacky University, and Charles University in the Czech Republic.