Anonymous

Previously "Anonymous," Miles Taylor unmasked himself as the author in 2020. A national security expert who works in Washington, DC, Taylor served as chief of staff at the US Department of Homeland Security. He published an “Anonymous” essay in The New York Times in 2018, blowing the whistle on presidential misconduct. He later published the #1 national bestseller A Warning, revealed himself to be the author, and launched a campaign of ex-officials to oppose Donald Trump’s reelection. He’s worked as an advisor in the George W. Bush administration, on Capitol Hill, as a CNN contributor, and is the cofounder of a DC-based charter school and multiple democracy-reform groups. Taylor received his MPhil in international relations from Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar and BA from Indiana University as a Harry S. Truman scholar.