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Lessons from Austan Goolsbee

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.
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Audrey Tang

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.
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Lessons from Andrew Sullivan

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.
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Chris Blattman

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.
Profile 6 min read

Lessons from Amia Srinivasan

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.
Profile 11 min read

Lessons from Alison Gopnik

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.
Profile 9 min read

Lessons from Alain Bertaud

Alain Bertaud, a former World Bank urban planner and Senior Fellow at the NYU Marron Institute, treats cities primarily as labor markets. His work shows how mobility, housing, and land-use rules shape urban opportunity.
Profile 7 min read

Lessons from Agnes Callard

Agnes Callard, a University of Chicago philosopher, studies how people acquire new values and navigate everyday emotional friction. Her account of aspiration—the conscious effort to care about what one does not yet understand—illuminates personal change, relationships, and Socratic inquiry.

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