Persuasion
Yascha Mounk, John McWhorter, Sam Kahn, Luke Hallam, Persuasion Staff, Quico Toro, Sally Satel, Matt Lutz, Francis Fukuyama, Rachel Kleinfeld, Brendan Ruberry, Laura Silverman, David Hamburger, Jeff Bleich, Jeffrey Cieslikowski, Anders Knospe, Dalibor Rohac, Paul Verkuil, Richard AldousThe community for those who believe that a free society is worth fighting for.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium |
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| Publishes | Daily | Issues | 1929 |
| Subscribers | Read | persuasion.community |
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Authors
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Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Persuasion Author, The Identity Trap
John McWhorter is the host of Lexicon Valley. In his spare time, he teaches linguistics at Columbia University and writes a regular column for the New York Times.
Sam Kahn writes the Substack Castalia.
Senior Editor at Persuasion. Contact: luke.hallam@persuasion.community
Quico Toro is Director of Climate Repair at the Anthropocene Institute, and the writer behind OnePercentBrighter.com
Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute and Lecturer, Yale University School of Medicine
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Wuhan University
Senior Fellow at Stanford's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, furniture maker, drone pilot, fan of classic social theory.
Dr. Rachel Kleinfeld focuses on how democracies that are facing polarization, anti-democratic leaders, and poor governance can make major, positive change towards freedom, dignity, and human flourishing
Founder of Zero Proof Nation™️. Sober since 2007. Lover of karaoke, Elvis, The Beatles, travel, & non-alc. “Bookstack” podcast producer.
Executive Director at Persuasion
Former U.S. Ambassador, Special Counsel to President Obama, Chair of the Fulbright Board, and Law Clerk to Chief Justice Rehnquist. He is Chair of the Centre on Democracy and Disruptive Technologies at Flinders, and a Visiting Scholar at Stanford.
Free speech researcher and law student.
Senior fellow at AEI. Senior research fellow at Humanities Research Institute, University of Buckingham, UK. Research associate at Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies.
Paul Verkuil is President Emeritus of William and Mary and Former Chairman of the Administrative Conference of the United States, where is a currently a Senior Fellow
Bard College historian and host of Persuasion’s Bookstack podcast
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