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Jill Lepore, a Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer, examines how politics, law, and media shape American society. Her approach to interpreting the past connects historical inquiry to enduring questions of civic life within American society.
Jerusalem Demsas, a journalist covering housing and infrastructure, argues that America’s housing shortage is a self-inflicted policy failure. Her reporting shows how zoning rules, neighborhood vetoes, and local political control block development needed for affordability and economic mobility.
Jennifer Burns, a Stanford historian, studies how economic and political ideas shape American society. Her biographies of Ayn Rand and Milton Friedman trace how free-market arguments moved from academic margins into policy, revealing the pathways of intellectual influence.
Henry Oliver, a writer, literary critic, and author of Second Act, explores how people discover talent, change careers, and find practical wisdom in classic literature. His work challenges the tyranny of early achievement and studies the possibility of reinvention.
Harvey Mansfield, a longtime Harvard political philosopher and translator of Machiavelli and Tocqueville, argues that modern democracy still relies on aristocratic virtues, including manliness and strong executive power. His work tests classical political thought against modern liberalism.
Dave Baszucki, co-founder and CEO of Roblox, turned educational physics simulators into a platform for user-created social worlds, raising enduring questions about digital identity, creator economies, and the infrastructure needed for shared 3D experiences.
John Cochrane, a Hoover Institution senior fellow and former finance professor, argues that government debt drives inflation and that durable economic growth depends on structural deregulation rather than monetary engineering, linking macroeconomics to finance and public policy.
Joe Studwell, a British journalist, examines how developing nations get rich through land reform, export-driven manufacturing, and state-controlled finance, while exposing the structural constraints and rent-seeking habits that shape emerging markets across Asia and Africa.