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  • Asterisk Magazine

    A magazine dedicated to clear writing and clear thinking, published from inside the worlds shaping the Bay Area. Subscribe in print: https://store.asteriskmag.com/.

  • Ozy Brennan

    The gradual supplanting of the natural by the just.

  • Leah Libresco Sargeant

    I'm the author of The Dignity of Dependence, as a well as Arriving at Amen and Building the Benedict Option. My substack, Other Feminisms, is about how to advocate for women as women in a world that treats us like defective men.

  • Celine Nguyen

    Designer and writer from California. I write about literature, design, fashion, technology, phenomenology, perfume, and Proust

  • Abi Olvera

    Optimistic takes on why things cost so much, why institutions make mistakes, and what AI is actually changing. Ex-diplomat. I lead DC Abundance. Views my own.

  • Justin Curl

    AI researcher turned lawyer trying to make AI go well. Prev: Harvard Law, Schwarzman Scholar, Microsoft Research, Princeton CS

  • Corbin Duncan

    Staff writer at The Economist. Previously in China, Harvard

  • Clara Collier

    Editor in Chief of Asterisk Magazine

  • Anton Leicht

    I write about the political economy of advanced AI.

  • Nat Purser

    senior policy advocate @publicknowledge

  • Dylan Matthews

    A writer in DC

  • Zilan Qian

    Writing about US-China AI, to one day not write about US-China AI.

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    The Young American Magazine | [email protected]

  • Elizabeth Van Nostrand

    What if we understood more things? Freelance Research Analyst @ North Sea Analytics

  • Gabrielle Sorensen

    I write about economics, housing, and whatever interests me at the moment.

  • Dan Bouk

    I am writing a book about the NYC subway and a hopeful historical tale about outsiders who helped put the trains back on track.

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