Persuasion

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

Sam Kahn writes the Substack Castalia.

A fine Mahok to you all. Senior editor at Persuasion [email protected]

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

Henri Astier is a London-based journalist who worked for the BBC from 1991 to 2021 and writes for French and English-language publications.

John B. Judis's latest book, written with Ruy Teixeira, is "Where Have All the Democrats Gone," He is a former senior editor of The New Republic and author of 11 books.

Shalom Auslander is an internationally acclaimed novelist, short story writer, essayist and scriptwriter. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, This American Life and many others around the world. He lives somewhere.

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.

Founding President of the National Endowment for Democracy (1984-2021)

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

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.

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.