Raymond Tallis is a retired physician and academic. His forthcoming book, Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Mispresentation of Mankind, will be published by Atlantic next year. Roger Scruton is Visiting Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Oxford and a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. His book, The Uses of Pessimism and the Danger of False Hope, was published in June by Atlantic.