Ed SimonEd Simon is a staff writer at The Millions and a contributing editor for History News Network. He is the author of several books, most recently Printed in Utopia: The Renaissance's Radicalism. His essays have appeare in The Atlantic, The Paris Review Daily, The Washington Post, Newsweek, Poetry, McSweeney's, Aeon, Jacobin, Salon, The New Republic and The New York Times among dozens of others. A native of Pittsburgh, he currently lives in northern Virginia. Read More Read Less