Simon Blackburn
Fellow, Trinity College
University of Cambridge
Jason Brennan
Professor
Georgetown University
Justin E H Smith
Professor of History and Philosophy of Science
Université Paris Diderot (Paris 7)
Dallas G Denery II
Associate Professor of History
Bowdoin College
Chris Walsh
Associate Director, Arts and Sciences Writing Program
Boston University
Michael Ruse
Professor of Philosophy
Florida State University
John Quiggin
Professor of economics
University of Queensland
Diane Coyle
Economist, Former Advisor to UK Treasury
Edmund Fawcett
Journalist
William Helmreich
Professor of Sociology
CUNY Graduate Center
Louise O Fresco
President
Wageningen University
Richard Bourke
Professor in the History of Political Thought
Queen Mary University of London
Gary Gerstle
Professor of American History
University of Cambridge
Nile Green
Professor of History
University of California, Los Angeles
Lynn Gamwell
Lecturer
School of Visual Arts
Jason Stanley
Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy, Linguistics
Yale University
Timothy Jorgensen
Director of Health Physics and Radiation Protection Graduate Program
Georgetown University
Leah Wright Rigueur
Assistant Professor of Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Sara Lewis
Professor of Biology
Tufts University
Katharine Dow
Social Anthropologist
University of Cambridge
Nancy Weiss Malkiel
Professor of History, Emeritus
Princeton University
Paula S Fass
Margaret Byrne Professor of History Emerita
University of California, Berkeley
Emrys Westacott
Professor of Philosophy
Alfred University
Thomas W Laqueur
Professor of History
University of California, Berkeley
James Q Whitman
Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law
Yale Law School
Peter Ungar
Evolutionary Biologist
University of Arkansas
Elizabeth Currid-Halkett
Professor of Public Policy
Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California
Walter Scheidel
Professor in the Humanities, Classics and History
Stanford University
Lewis Glinert
Professor of Hebrew Studies and Linguistics
Dartmouth College
Dennis Rasmussen
Associate Professor in Politics
Tufts University
Kyle Harper
Provost, Professor of Classics and Letters
The University of Oklahoma
Scott E Page
Leonid Hurwicz Collegiate Professor
University of Michigan
Kieran Setiya
Professor of Philosophy
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rachel Sherman
Associate Professor of Sociology
New School in New York
Gloria Origgi
Philosopher
French National Centre for Scientific Research
Michael Szonyi
Professor of Chinese History
Harvard University
Jerry Z Muller
Professor of History
Catholic University of America
John C Hulsman
President and Co-Founder
John C Hulsman Enterprises
Keith E Whittington
Professor of Politics
Princeton University
Michael Robertson
Professor of English
The College of New Jersey
Christian C Sahner
Associate Professor of Islamic History
University of Oxford
John Tolan
Professor of History
University of Nantes
Marion Turner
Associate Professor of English
Jesus College, University of Oxford
Peter Martin
Author
Simon May
Visiting Professor of Philosophy
King's College London
Hugo Mercier
Evolutionary and Cognitive Psychologist
Institut Jean Nicod, Paris
John Cottingham
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
University of Reading
Andrew Hui
Associate Professor in Literature
Yale-NUS College
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Economics
Growing pains
Measure a country purely against its GDP and you neglect the wellbeing of its people. Yet can that be measured?
Diane Coyle
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Ethics
Be not brave
Cowards have been shamed, beaten and shot, yet their failing has an important social function. Let’s hear it for cowardice
Chris Walsh
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History of ideas
Can God lie?
Until the Scientific Revolution, God’s power included a licence to deceive. How did science make an honest man of Him?
Dallas G Denery II
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Ecology and environmental sciences
Splat goes the theory
Local and organic is a romantic myth – the future of sustainable agriculture is all about smart technology and scaling up
Louise O Fresco
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History of science
Hazard lines
The Fukushima disaster shows why the line between high and low risk is individual. Can we learn to manage our own safety?
Timothy Jorgensen
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Political philosophy
Burke was no conservative
Edmund Burke’s support for the American Revolution, and opposition to the French, have been misunderstood
Richard Bourke
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Information and communication
Know thy selfie
If Narcissus were here he’d be busy on Instagram. Can we have a virtuous sense of worth without the vanity of self-love?
Simon Blackburn
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Architecture
Modern-day flâneur
Theories and demographics are all very well, but to know New York City’s inner life you need to walk and talk
William Helmreich
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History of ideas
Reclaiming liberalism
Liberalism is not dead – its ideals are more important than ever – but it must change radically to survive in the future
Edmund Fawcett
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Art
How physics and maths helped create modernist painting
Lynn Gamwell
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Stories and literature
How philosophy came to disdain the wisdom of oral cultures
Justin E H Smith
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Race and ethnicity
Black conservatives do not speak for the black majority
Leah Wright Rigueur
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Political philosophy
How free market ideology perverts the vocabulary of democracy
Jason Stanley
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History
The US is a failed state thanks to its system of government
Gary Gerstle
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Ecology and environmental sciences
Why we must keep the fires of the magical firefly burning
Sara Lewis
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Religion
What happened when a Muslim student went to Cambridge in 1816
Nile Green
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Politics and government
The right to vote should be restricted to those with knowledge
Jason Brennan
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Human reproduction
Can surrogacy ever escape the taint of global exploitation?
Katharine Dow
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Education
Coeducation at university was – and is – no triumph of feminism
Nancy Weiss Malkiel
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Childhood and adolescence
The end of adolescence
In the 20th century it offered a bridge from the innocence of childhood to the responsibilities of adult life. Not any more
Paula S Fass