Jamie HolmesJamie Holmes is a writer and the author of the books Nonsense and 12 Seconds of Silence. His work has appeared in print or online in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Slate, Wired, The i>Christian Science Monitor, The New Republic, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, USA Today, and the Daily Beast. He holds an MIA from Columbia University's School of International Affairs and previously worked at New America as a Fellow and Policy Analyst in international development. Prior to that he was a Research Coordinator at Harvard's Department of Economics, where he focused on behavioral economics. He lives in Washington, DC. Read More Read Less