Gad YairGad Yair is Full Professor of Sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he holds the Louis and Ann Wolens Chair in Educational Research. A Fulbright alumnus at the University of Chicago and former Visiting Research Professor at MIT's Slon School of Management, Yair has held appointments at leading institutions worldwide, including the Free University of Berlin and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His scholarship spans cultural sociology, national character, education, and collective identity, with a special focus on how cultural trauma shapes nations. Author of numerous books, among them The Code of Israeliness, The Unruly Mind, and Love Is Not Praktish, he has published over 100 scholarly articles in leading journals. Yair is an award-winning teacher, a sought-after speaker, a YouTuber anda frequent commentator on Israeli and American culture. This is America: Portrait of a Nation at 250 is the culmination of decades of travel, interviews, and cross-cultural research. Read More Read Less