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Brad DeLong, a UC Berkeley economic historian and former U.S. Treasury official, argues that the technological leaps of 1870 created immense wealth without curing basic human dissatisfaction, illuminating economic growth, market limits, and macroeconomic policy.
Blake Scholl, founder of Boom Supersonic, taught himself aerospace engineering to confront the economic and technical failures that grounded Concorde. His work asks how disciplined hardware development and faster passenger flight can challenge technological stagnation.
Austan Goolsbee is an economist whose work spans public policy, central banking, taxation, and market behavior. His empirical focus on internet pricing informs a larger question: whether inflation can fall along a “golden path” without recession.
Audrey Tang, a Taiwanese programmer and former Minister of Digital Affairs, built vTaiwan and championed radical transparency. Their work shows how open government and civic software can enable public collaboration, resist political polarization, and support self-directed education.
Andrew Sullivan, a journalist and former editor of The New Republic, pioneered mainstream political blogging with The Daily Dish. His work examines faith, media, and tribalism through a moderate conservative critique of religious fundamentalism and identity politics.
Chris Blattman, an economist and political scientist, studies conflict, crime, and poverty. His central claim—that peace is humanity’s default—focuses attention on the bargaining failures behind violence and the limits of grand policy interventions.
Amia Srinivasan, an Oxford philosopher, examines how political power enters private life. Her work connects feminist theory, animal ethics, and human relationships, asking how race, class, and gender help construct sexual desire.
Alison Gopnik, a developmental psychologist and philosopher, portrays babies as tiny scientists. Her research links infant cognition, artificial intelligence, play, and caregiving, while her “gardener versus carpenter” metaphor reframes parenting as cultivation rather than construction.