Leonard Benardo is senior vice president for the Open Society Foundations. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, the International Herald Tribune, Bookforum, the American Prospect, Project Syndicate, and Prospect. He is the co-author, with his wife Jennifer Weiss, of two books: Brooklyn by Name: How the Neighborhoods, Streets, Parks, Bridges, and More Got Their Names, and Citizen-in-Chief: The Second Lives of the American Presidents.