Sara Imari Walker is an astrobiologist and theoretical physicist at Arizona State University and the Santa Fe Institute. Walker develops theories and experiments toward characterizing the origin of ...

Yuen Yuen Ang is the Alfred Chandler Chair of Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of How China Escaped the Poverty Trap and China’s Gilded Age. In 2021, Apolitical named ...

In April 1941, with the Wehrmacht in Paris and the Ribbentrop–Molotov pact still in force, the political theorist James Burnham published “The Managerial Revolution,” which famously declared that ...

Saffron Huang is co-founder and advisor at the Collective Intelligence Project, working on enabling more democratic emerging technologies, and a researcher on the Societal Impacts team at Anthropic.

Nathan Gardels is the editor-in-chief of Noema Magazine. He is also the co-founder of and a senior adviser to the Berggruen Institute. In his 2013 book, “The End of Power,” Moisés Naim famously wrote ...

Arianna Huffington is the founder and CEO of Thrive Global, a behavior change technology company with the mission of improving health outcomes and productivity. She is also the founder of The ...

Nathan Gardels is the editor-in-chief of Noema Magazine. He is also the co-founder of and a senior adviser to the Berggruen Institute. The relentless monthlong assault by the U.S. and Israel does not ...

Gary Marcus is a scientist, best-selling author and entrepreneur. His most recent book, co-authored with Ernest Davis, “Rebooting AI,” was named one of Forbes’s 7 must-read books about AI. For nearly ...

Brian Stone Jr. is a professor in the School of City and Regional Planning and director of the Urban Climate Lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His most recent book is “Radical Adaptation: ...

John Last is a freelance journalist and former foreign correspondent living outside Ottawa, Canada. MOUNT ATHOS, Greece — The Monastery of the Great Lavra is a fortified village perched on a sloping ...

Karen Bakker (1971-2023) was a professor at the University of British Columbia, a Guggenheim fellow and a 2022-23 fellow of the Harvard Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies. On a chilly morning in ...