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 ...

Petter Törnberg is a computational social scientist at the University of Amsterdam, studying the intersection of AI, social media and political life. Justus Uitermark is a social scientist at the ...

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: ...

Otto Scharmer is the author of “Theory U” (2016) and co-founder of the Presencing Institute and the MITx u-lab. He works with leaders in the United Nations and in public, private and civil society ...

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 ...