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

Sam Kahn writes the Substack Castalia.

I'm paralyzed with rage. And island rhythms. Senior editor at Persuasion [email protected]

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

Washington, D.C. @theFIREorg + @PersuasionInstitute

Author of 10 Rules for Raising Kids in a High-Tech World (2025), iGen (2017), and Generations (2023, paperback 2025) and professor of psychology at San Diego State University.

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

Joey T. McFadden is a writer & commentator with Young Voices, host of In Response..., and Blue Co-Chair of Braver Angels NYC.

Executive Director at Persuasion

Don Kettl is Professor Emeritus and Former Dean of the University of Maryland School of Public Policy

I'm a writer and a technologist in theory—a Nothing Person in practice. I spent years in tech and finance searching for useful work. Early on, there was some. Later, there was Nothing. Hence the term. Fatamorgana is my first book.

Bard College historian and host of Persuasion’s Bookstack podcast

Think tank co-founder and senior fellow writing on public policy, economics, law and liberalism. New Zealand is my vantage point, but the themes are universal.

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.

A lawyer who cares just enough.

The magazine and community dedicated to defending liberal values and democracy wherever they are threatened. Editor in Chief: Yascha Mounk. Home of American Purpose and Francis Fukuyama's blog. Join us today! www.persuasion.community

Head of Podcasts at Persuasion.

Jon A. Shields is a professor of government at Claremont McKenna College

Stephanie Muravchik teaches American politics at Claremont McKenna College and is the co-author of the forthcoming book, The Republican Civil War: What Liz Cheney's Wyoming Tells about a Divided American Right.

A professor of philosophy at Scripps College, Claremont.