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  • Daniel Oppenheimer

    Daniel Oppenheimer's Substack is Eminent Americans, a newsletter and podcast about the contemporary American intellectual scene. He is the author of Exit Right (Simon & Schuster, 2016) and Far From Respectable (University of Texas Press, 2021).

  • Jacob Siegel

    Editor, The Scroll. Senior writer, Tablet Magazine.

  • Damon Linker

    Senior Lecturer in Dept of Pol Sci @ Penn. "Notes from the Middleground" at Substack; Senior Fellow, Niskanen Center; author of "The Theocons" & "The Religious Test"; former columnist w The Week

  • Emmett Rensin

    intrasubjective hallucination in the latent west; "The Complications" (2024), essays elsewhere

  • David Sessions

    Historian and journalist, cohost of Off Christopher Street. Writing in The New Republic, The Point, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Dissent, Commonweal, and others.

  • Shreeharsh Kelkar

    I am a continuing lecturer at UC-Berkeley affiliated with the Interdisciplinary Studies Field (ISF). I write about the history and future of AI, its implications for work and labor, and on the relationship between politics, expertise, and democracy.

  • Ken

    Ken Ilgunas is the author of the travel memoirs Walden on Wheels and Trespassing Across America, as well as This Land Is Our Land, which advocates for the “right to roam.” Lives in Scotland and writes about gardening, bushcraft, movies, & politics.

  • Arc Magazine

    Religion, Politics, Et Cetera

  • Jeffrey Lawrence

    Associate Professor of English at Rutgers, novelist, translator. Author of Anxieties of Experience: The Literatures of the Americas from Whitman to Bolaño (Oxford) and the Spanish-language novel El americano. Represented by Agencia Silvia Bastos.

  • Ann Manov
  • Rogers Brubaker

    Sociologist working on fundamental social categories (new book Gender Identity: The Career of a Category) and digital technology (2022 book Hyperconnectivity and Its Discontents). New project on digital infrastructures of populism and technocracy.

  • Len Gutkin

    Len Gutkin is editor of the Chronicle Review.

  • Tuhin Chakrabarty

    Computer Science Professor interested in AI , Literature and Law Opinions mine and do not reflect my employer

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