Kirkpatrick Sale is a prolific scholar and author of more than a dozen books―including Human Scale, Rebels Against the Future, and After Eden: The Evolution of Human Domination. He has been described as the "leader of the Neo-Luddites," is one of the pioneers of the bioregional movement, and throughout his career has been a regular contributor to The Nation, The New York Times Magazine, CounterPunch, Lew Rockwell, The New York Review of Books, and The Utne Reader, which named him one of 100 living visionaries. Sale is currently the director of the political think tank, the Middlebury Institute, for the study of separatism, secession, and self-determination.