Wisdom of Crowds
Wisdom of Crowds, Shadi Hamid, Damir Marusic, Cameron Kasky, Peter Beinart, Laura K. Field, Christine Emba, Julian G. Waller, Santiago Ramos, Samuel Kimbriel, Jonny Thakkar, Alex Grodd, Trita Parsi, Osita Nwanevu, Ripley Stroud, Ian TuttleWe are against consensus. // An ideas collective and debate platform co-founded by Damir Marusic and Shadi Hamid.
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Church and Empire
The Iran war has produced an unlikely main character: the Pope. This week, our dear friend and former colleague Santiago Ramos returns to the pod. He joins Christine and Damir to unpack the escalating clash between the Trump administration...
Politics Without Politicians
Join us on May 7 for a Wisdom of Crowds Live Taping at Bistro Cacao, co-sponsored by Aspen Philosophy & Society and The Yale Center for Civic Thought.
Does democracy really need politicians? Or could we let the people rule directly? Join H...
Did We Get Hungary Wrong?
This week, Damir and Shadi are joined by Julian Waller, Professorial Lecturer in Political Science at George Washington University and co-author of Autocrats Can’t Always Get What They Want: State Institutions and Autonomy under Authoritari...
Anti-Politics and the Counter-Revolution
Samuel Kimbriel was in Italy the other week, where he sat down with Rome-based political theorist Giovanni Orsina to talk about European populism. The conversation starts with Giorgia Meloni, who, Orsina argues, is more a pragmatic traditio...
Peter Beinart on Why the "Right to Exist" is the Wrong Question
The harder question is what should actually replace it.
Last week, Shadi wrote a controversial essay over at Wisdom of Crowds titled “Does Israel Have a Right to Exist?” This week, we had our friend Peter Beinart on to the show to unpack t...
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Agreement is nice. Disagreement is better.
Columnist, The Washington Post. Co-founder of Wisdom of Crowds. My new book is THE CASE FOR AMERICAN POWER: https://amzn.to/3I6nd2r.
Opinions editor at Washington Post and co-founder of Wisdom of Crowds.
New York City
Editor-at-Large, Jewish Currents. New York Times and MSNBC Contributor. Prof, Newmark School of Journalism, CUNY. Fellow, Foundation for Middle East Peace
I am a writer and political theorist in Washington, DC, and author of Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right, from Princeton University Press.
Senior Fellow, AEI. Author, "Rethinking Sex: A Provocation." Editor-at-large, WisdomOfCrowds.live
Ph.D, Political Science. Authoritarianism, Illiberalism, Postliberalism, Russia/Eurasia, Pol-Mil.
Online Editor, Plough. Contributor, Commonweal.
Director Philosophy & Society @ Aspen Institute. Editor at Large wisdomofcrowds.live. Other writing: amazon.com/dp/0199363986
Founding editor of The Point, prof at Swarthmore College, author of Plato as Critical Theorist
Co-founder and CEO, The Disagreement
Trita Parsi is the Executive VP of the Quincy Institute and an award-winning author. Washingtonian Magazine has named him one of the 25 most influential voices on foreign policy. Noam Chomsky calls him "one of the most distinguished scholars on Iran"
Contributing Editor at The New Republic. Columnist at The Guardian. Author of The Right of the People (2025).
research fellow at the aspen institute; PhD candidate in philosophy at UNC Chapel Hill
Ian Tuttle is a Research Fellow with the Aspen Institute’s Philosophy & Society program.
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