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

Tara Henley is a current affairs journalist and podcaster based in Toronto. Her latest book is The Trust Spiral: Why the Media Needs Objectivity.

Quico Toro is Director of Climate Repair at the Anthropocene Institute, and the writer behind OnePercentBrighter.com Based in Tokyo. And fascinated by it.

Sarah is Senior Scholar, Global Expression at FIRE and author of Authoritarians in the Academy: How the Internationalization of Higher Education and Borderless Censorship Threaten Free Speech

Historian of the intelligentsia. Whatever my professional affiliations, opinions here are my own.

CEO of The Future of Free Speech, research professor at Vanderbilt University. Senior Fellow at FIRE. Author of "Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media", host of the podcast "Clear and Present Danger: A History of Free Speech".

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

Political analyst and Host of the Uncommon Decency podcast on European affairs: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/uncommon-decency/id1534151181

Founder and President, Interfaith America

news and analysis on Iran and the middle east you won't hear on the mainstream media. specialist on the IRGC and iran's military-security apparatus

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

Writer & analyst | Notes from the collapse of the US and USSR | Pre-order How To Survive Authoritarianism wherever books are sold | he / он / el

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.

Watching dictators & tech with my ravens. Russian dissident & authoritarianism researcher. Now in America. Not my first democracy to fall. Author of the upcoming book ''How to Survive Authoritarianism''

Geopolitical analyst focusing on structural dynamics across Eastern and Western Europe.

Jørgen Møller is professor of political science at Aarhus University, Denmark. His research interests include history and politics, democratization and rule of law, patterns of state formation, and comparative methodology.

Svend-Erik Skaaning is professor of political science at Aarhus University, Denmark, and project manager for the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) project. His research investigates the nature, causes, and consequences of democracy.