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Alan Mikhail is a professor of history at Yale, and the author of God's Shadow: The Ottoman Sultan Who Shaped the Modern World.

Steve Fuller is a professor of sociology at the University of Warwick. He is the author of several books, including Post-Truth: Knowledge as a Power Game.

David Yaffe is a professor of humanities at Syracuse University and the author of Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell. His Substack is: https://davidyaffe.substack.com/

Adam Hochshild is a historian and the author of, American Midnight: The Great War, A Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis.

Dave Andrews is an activist and the author of several books, including Christi-Anarchy: Discovering a Radical Spirituality of Compassion.

Bev Stohl was formerly the assistant of Noam Chomsky for over 20 years. She recently wrote a book called, Chomsky and Me: A Memoir.

William Deresiewicz taught English at Yale University and is the author of Death of the Artist: How Creatives are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech and most recently, The End of Solitude: Selected Essays on Culture and Society.

James Stevens Curl is an architect and historian, and the author of a book about Modern architecture, Making Dystopia: The Strange Rise and Survival of Architectural Barbarism.

Malachi O'Doherty is a journalist in Northern Ireland, and the author of several books, including The Telling Year: Belfast 1972.

Marc Levinson is an economist and author of, "The Box: How Shipping Containers Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger."

Daniel Mullen is a Scottish painter based out of Rotterdam.

Hannah Lucinda Smith is a journalist with The Times of London, and the author of Erdoğan Rising: The Battle for the Soul of Turkey.

Jed Rasula is a professor at the University of Georgia, and the author of Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century.

Joel Whitney is the author of Finks: How the CIA Tricked the World's Best Writers.

Alberto Gerosa is a performance artist and filmmaker based out of Hong Kong.

Anna Lembke is a psychiatrist and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. She is the author of Drug Dealer, MD and Dopamine Nation.

Jhanelle Thomas is a psychology researcher and the co-author of, "Disappearing in the Age of Hypervisibility: Definition, Context, and Perceived Psychological Consequences of Social Media Ghosting."

James Curtis is a biographer, and the recent author of Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker's Life.

Loren Toussaint is a professor of psychology at Luther College, and the director of their "Laboratory for the Investigation of Mind, Body, and Spirit." He is also Chair of the Discover Forgiveness advisory council at the Templeton World Charity Foundation, and president of the Forgiveness Foundation.

Rosamund Bartlett is an expert on Russian literature, and the author of several books, including, "Tolstoy: A Russian Life."

Jan Swafford is an American composer, as well as a music critic and author of several musical biographies.

Jason Lewis is an American politician, a former talk radio host and represented Minnesota's 2nd Congressional District in the House of Representatives. He is the recent author of "Party Animal: The Truth about President Trump, Power Politics and The Partisan Press," available to purchase here .

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Richard Davies is an economist at Bristol University and the author of, "Extreme Economies: What Life At The World's Margins Can Teach Us About Our Future."

Meirion Jones is a journalist and editor at The Bureau of Investigative Journalism. He has worked on a number of high-profile stories, including exposing the crimes of Jimmy Savile.