Jeremy Bendik-Keymer is assistant professor of philosophy at Le Moyne College, Syracuse, N.Y. He studied at Yale and University of Chicago, and taught for a number of years in the United Arab Emirates before moving back home to be near family. He published The ecological life –discovering citizenship & a sense of humanity in 2006, and wrote the essay “Le citoyen apathique: quand les institutions étatique ne reflètent pas les droits de l’homme avec coherence” for AFRI in 2006. In 2001, he won the Wayne C. Booth Prize for excellence in teaching from University of Chicago. Currently, he is preparing a book on conscience.