Susanne Wedlich studied biology and political science in Munich and has worked as a writer in Boston and Singapore. She has written for Der Spiegel, National Geographic and Spektrum der[…]
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Jason Brennan is the Flanagan Family Professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at Georgetown University. His books include Debating Democracy (with Hélène Landemore), Against Democracy, and The Ethics of Voting.
Charles Dunst is the author of Defeating the Dictators: How Democracy Can Prevail in the Age of the Strongman. A former foreign correspondent, he has written for outlets including The[…]
Ted Ladd is a Dean and Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Hult International Business School and teaches innovation at Harvard University. He is the co-author of Innovating with Impact with Alessandro[…]
Paul Scharre is the award-winning author of Four Battlegrounds and Army of None. He is the vice president and director of studies at the Center for a New American Security.[…]
Jennifer Michael Hecht is a historian, poet, and the author of Doubt, Stay, The Happiness Myth, and The End of the Soul. She earned her PhD in history from Columbia University and teaches[…]
Susan Wels is a bestselling author, historian, and journalist. Her books include An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President's Murder and Titanic: Legacy of the[…]
Kelly Richmond Pope is the Barry Jay Epstein Endowed Professor of Forensic Accounting at DePaul University in Chicago. Pope directed and produced the documentary, All the Queen's Horses, and she has been[…]
Dr. Tanya Marie Luhrmann is the Watkins University Professor at Stanford University, where she teaches anthropology and psychology. Her books include When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship[…]
Stephen Bullivant holds professorial positions at St Mary's University, London, and the University of Notre Dame, Sydney. He has doctorates in theology (Oxford, 2009) and sociology (Warwick, 2019). His studies of[…]
Associate Professor of Global Politics at University College London, Contributing Writer for The Atlantic, author of Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us, and Creator/Host of the award-winning[…]
Vaclav Smil is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba. He is the author of forty books, including Energy and Civilization and the New York Times bestseller How the World[…]
Sally Adee is a science and technology writer. She has worked as features editor and writer at New Scientist and is cited in Yuval Noah Harari's Homo Deus. Her writing has also appeared[…]
John Inazu is the Sally D. Danforth Distinguished Professor of Law and Religion at Washington University in St. Louis. He teaches criminal law, law and religion, and various First Amendment[…]
Saugat Bolakhe is a Nepalese freelance life science and environment writer based in New York and a journalism graduate student at CUNY.
Jeannie Kidera is an Instructional Designer at Big Think+. Her poetry and nonfiction have appeared in Writer’s Block Magazine, Caraval Journal, The Naugatuck Review, The Madison Review, New Letters Magazine,[…]
Philip Kitcher is the John Dewey Professor Emeritus of philosophy at Columbia University. His work has been honored with several awards, including the Rescher Medal for systematic philosophy and the Hempel[…]
Dan Egan is the author of The Devil's Element and New York Times bestseller The Death and Life of the Great Lakes. A two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the Los[…]
Andre Sólo is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Sensitive Refuge, the world’s largest website for sensitive people. He is the co-author of SENSITIVE (with Jenn Granneman). He has been featured[…]
Jenn Granneman is an educator and a journalist, the co-author of SENSITIVE (with Andre Sólo) and the author of THE SECRET LIVES OF INTROVERTS. She has been featured in HuffPost,[…]
Brian A. Wong is a Chinese American entrepreneur and investor. He was the first American and only the 52nd employee to join Alibaba Group, where he contributed to the company’s[…]
Richard McGahey is an economist and senior fellow at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis and the Institute on Race, Power, and Political Economy, both within The New School.[…]
Matthew Birkhold is a professor at The Ohio State University, focusing on law, environmental humanities, intellectual property, and Indigenous studies. He is the author of Characters Before Copyright and his essays and op-eds[…]
After a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University and the Massachusetts General Hospital, Elizabeth A. Kensinger, Ph.D., joined the faculty of Boston College, where she is now professor and chairperson of the Department[…]
Andrew E. Budson, M.D., is a professor of neurology at Boston University, lecturer in neurology at Harvard Medical School, and Chief of Cognitive & Behavioral Neurology at the Veterans Affairs Boston[…]
Alex Wills, MD, is a board-certified psychiatrist. He is a graduate of the Sackler School of Medicine and completed his residency and fellowship training in Hawaii with additional training from[…]
Temple Grandin is a professor of animal science at Colorado State University and the author of the New York Times bestsellers Animals in Translation, Animals Make Us Human, The Autistic[…]
After spending a year as a Bartley fellow at the Wall Street Journal, Chloé Valdary developed The Theory of Enchantment, an innovative framework for compassionate antiracism that combines social emotional[…]
Rick Rubin is a GRAMMY-winning record producer and creative thinker. He has collaborated with a diverse range of artists including Johnny Cash, Adele and Jay-Z. Rubin made his debut as an[…]
István Darabán is a freelance writer and a neuroscience graduate student in Amsterdam.