Dag Herbjørnsrud is a Norwegian author and historian of ideas. He studied history of ideas (cand. philol.), social anthropology, and political science at the University of Oslo. Herbjørnsrud wrote his history of ideas thesis on Robert Nozick, pragmatism and North American philosophy in the 1980s and 1990s (2002), and is a former graduate of West County High School in Missouri, USA. He has co-authored three non-fiction books (2002-2005) with Stian Bromark, including the Brage prize-nominated Frykten for Amerika (The Fear of America. A European story). Herbjornsrud has been the Nordic columnist for Al Jazeera’s English website (2004-2005), and a contributer to Open Democracy and the blog of the Journal of the History of Ideas. Herbjørnsrud worked as a journalist/commentator at the conservative paper Aftenposten for ten years (1995-2005), and was the editor-in-chief/editor and/or CEO at the left-wing weekly Ny Tid for just as long (2005-2015). In 2015 he established Center for Global and Comparative History of Ideas (SGOKI), www.sgoki.org, before publishing "Globalkunnskap" ("Global Knowledge" in 2016).