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  • Shikha Dalmia

    I'm the editor of The UnPopulist

  • Radley Balko

    Investigative journalist. Proprietor of The Watch newsletter. Ex-Washington Post. Author of Rise of the Warrior Cop, co-author of The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist

  • Aaron Ross Powell

    Host of ReImagining Liberty, a podcast about the emancipatory, cosmopolitan, and forward-looking case for radical liberty, and Zooming In, a show from The UnPopulist. Radical liberal cosmopolitan and ex-think tank scholar.

  • Robert Tracinski

    Author of "Dictator From Day One: How Donald Trump Is Overthrowing the Constitution and How to Fight Back." Pre-orders: https://amzn.to/4nslh3B Commentary at The Tracinski Letter and Symposium. Director of the Executive Watch for ISMA/The UnPopulist.

  • Benjamin Wittes

    Editor in Chief, Lawfare Senior Fellow, Brookings Author, #DogShirtDaily Деякі люди грають у теніс. Деякі колекціонують марки. Я переслідую російських дипломатів.

  • Andy Craig

    Andy Craig is an expert on election law and electoral reform, and writes on topics including democratic theory, American history, and the political philosophy of liberalism.

  • Thomas Shull

    Thomas Shull is editor-at-large of The UnPopulist and survey research director for the Institute for the Study of Modern Authoritarianism.

  • Debasish Roy Chowdhury

    Debasish Roy Chowdhury is co-author of "To Kill A Democracy: India's Passage to Despotism" (OUP/Pan Macmillan)

  • Steve Chapman

    Freelance journalist and contributing columnist for the Chicago Tribune. I always heed my doubts.

  • Walter Olson

    Writer and author, especially on legal subjects. Cato Institute, election law, and Maryland civic stuff.

  • Berny Belvedere

    Senior Editor of The UnPopulist. Executive Director of the Institute for the Study of Modern Authoritarianism (ISMA).

  • Jonathan Rauch

    Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; contributing writer, The Atlantic

  • Landry Ayres

    Managing Editor/Senior Producer at The UnPopulist. Finlandria on Youtube. You Only Guide Me by Surprise wherever you get podcasts.

  • Zack Beauchamp

    Senior Correspondent at Vox covering the crisis of global democracy. Won the coveted Smash Mouth "Parental of the Year" award in 2020. .

  • J. L. Wall

    Critic, poet, and teacher whose writing has appeared in Plough, First Things, Modern Age, University Bookman, Breaking Ground, Arc Digital, and The UnPopulist.

  • Margaret Stock

    Retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel; managing attorney at Cascadia Cross Border Law Group; MacArthur Fellow (2013)

  • Chris Edelson

    assistant professor of government at American University

  • Birch Smith

    Contributing Editor at The UnPopulist | Philosophy Ph.D. student working at the intersection of political theory and epistemology.

  • David De Vilhena Roque Cohen

    Writes about foreign policy with a focus on U.S. foreign policy and U.S.–China strategic competition in South America and in Lusophone Africa.

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