Ilana Redstone is an Associate Professor of sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author ofThe Certainty Trap (Pitchstone Press, 2024) and Presumption of Guilt: How Equating Inequality with Injustice Fractured American Democracy (coming in spring 2027). She was awarded a joint Ph.D. in Demography and Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2005. More about her work is at www.ilanaredstone.com.