Ira Chernus (born October 29, 1946) is a journalist, author, and Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder.^[1] He received his Ph.D. in Religion from Temple University, specializing in the history of rabbinic Judaism. For much of his career, his academic writing focused on the foreign policy of US presidents. He has published books on Dwight Eisenhower and George W. Bush. As a journalist, he has written extensively on peace, war, foreign policy, and nationalism in the United States, as well as the Israel-Palestine conflict and U.S. Middle East policy. He has written often for the Huffington Post,^[2] CommonDreams, TomDispatch,^[3] AlterNet,^[4] Truthout, Foreign Policy In Focus, and Religion Dispatches.^[5] In 2012, he started a new blog, MythicAmerica, on the History News Network website and published online MythicAmerica: Essays.^[6] His recent writings on Israel, Palestine, and the U.S. are also collected on a separate blog.^[7] Many of his earlier writings can be found on his University of Colorado website.^[8] He has lectured in Lebanon, Finland, Australia, and Canada, as well as extensively throughout the United States. After retiring from academia, he created the website "In the Words of Walt Whitman: A Thematic Anthology."