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Director of academic and editorial affairs at the Niskanen Center.

I'm a vice president at the Niskanen Center, where we defend liberal democracy and try to revitalize the capitalist welfare state. My Substack is about why that job is so hard, and what happens if we fail.

Political scientist. Unabashed pluralist. Civic Renewer. Senior Fellow at AEI. Hope > optimism. Ravenclaw.

co-editor, Vital City; distinguished fellow of practice, Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation; former executive director, Center for Justice Innovation; author, The Nonprofit Crisis: Leadership Through the Culture Wars

Journalist and strategist writing at the intersection of AI, media, and resistance. This is the briefing room, the war room, and the writer’s room. Welcome to the edge of what's next.

Vice president of political studies at Niskanen Center, Washington DC

I write the Substack "The Raspberry Patch." I am founding editor of The American Interest magazine, and served on the Policy Planning Staff of the U.S. Department of State.

Counsel and Technology Policy Strategist at Protect Democracy. Former Facebook.

Founder and President, Interfaith America

Evangelizing for a more effective, capacious government at the Niskanen Center; previously doing the same at the Office of Management and Budget, Partnership for Public Service, and in industry.

Theorist of surveillance from the Age of Reason to the age of brainrot. Host of Virtual Sentiments podcast.

Jennifer Burns is Professor of History at Stanford University and a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution. She is the author of Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative and Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right.