Persuasion

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

Ruy Teixeira is a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and co-founder and politics editor of the Substack newsletter, The Liberal Patriot. His new book, with John B. Judis, is Where Have All the Democrats Gone?

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

current interests: great powers, IR theory, AI, late Soviet history (esp the 1991 coup), phil of social science. Associate professor and George Ignatieff Chair of Peace & Conflict Studies at University of Toronto

Emily Chamlee-Wright is the president of the Institute for Humane Studies. IHS supports and connects scholars and thought leaders advancing the liberal project.

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

Philosopher and independent scholar writing on human progress and human (ir)rationality. Author of The Betrayal of Enlightenment, forthcoming from Pitchstone Publishing.

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.

Bharath is a Columbia Law graduate and the founder and former CEO of Denim (acquired by Truckstop.com). He writes about knowledge, cultural evolution, and human flourishing.

Nonresident senior fellow, American Enterprise Institute. Former deputy opinion editor, Washington Post. Author, "The Day Freedom Died." Adult Lego builder. Ask me about the S2K.

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