Persuasion

Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Persuasion Author, The Identity Trap

Sam Kahn writes the Substack Castalia.

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

Quico Toro is Director of Climate Repair at the Anthropocene Institute, and the writer behind OnePercentBrighter.com

Writer. Founding Editor of American Dreaming. Managing Editor at Queer Majority. Contributing Editor at Bi.org. Pasta enthusiast. https://americandreaming.substack.com/

Jeffery Tyler Syck is an Assistant Professor of Politics and founding director of the Center for Public Service at the University of Pikeville. A scholar of American political thought, he writes on the moral and civic foundations of democracy.

Senior Fellow at Stanford's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, furniture maker, drone pilot, fan of classic social theory.

I write about AI, emerging technology, and the future of governance.

Senior fellow at AEI. Senior research fellow at Humanities Research Institute, University of Buckingham, UK. Research associate at Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies.

Bard College historian and host of Persuasion’s Bookstack podcast

Saeid Golkar is the UC Foundation associate professor of political science at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, a senior advisor at United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), and a writing fellow at the Middle East Forum.

Head of Podcasts at Persuasion.

Shahn Louis is the founder of Anansi Strategic Intelligence LLC. A former senior intelligence analyst specializing in China, he is a member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and an American Mandarin Society AACLF Fellow.

Iranian-American writer from Tehran. Her work examines authoritarianism, exile, and the emotional consequences of political violence. She writes under a pseudonym.