Roger Hodge is author of The Mendacity of Hope: Presidential Power, Corporate Money, and the Politics of Corrupt Influence (HarperCollins). Formerly he was editor of the Oxford American and Harper’s Magazine.

Hodge’s writings have appeared in many publications, including Texas Monthly, the London Review of Books, Popular Science, Men’s Journal and Harper’s. He is writing a book about life in the West Texas borderlands (Knopf).