Matthew Wolfe is a National Fellow at New America, where he is currently writing a narrative nonfiction book, for Viking Press, on the Earth Liberation Front and radical environmentalism in the context of the current climate crisis.  In 2023, he received a PhD in sociology from New York University, where he researched the social patterning of and societal reaction to missing persons. His academic research has appeared in Theory and Society, BMJ Global Health, and Social Research. His journalism has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Harper’s, and The New Republic.