Arthur C. Brooks

Arthur C. Brooks is the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Public and Nonprofit Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School and Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard...

Dr. Joshua Bennett

An award-winning poet, performer, and professor at MIT, Dr. Joshua Bennett has taken to the stage at the Sundance Film Festival, the NAACP Image Awards, and President Obama’s Evening of...

Sara Hendren

Sara Hendren is an artist, design researcher, and writer whose work explores the intersection of where disability meets design. From furniture to tools, she questions features that might be regarded as...

Ocean Vuong

Ocean Vuong’s striking body of work contains timeless themes of class, queerness, and identity. His New York Times-bestselling novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, is an evocative coming-of-age epistolary and...

David Ewing Duncan

David Ewing Duncan is an award-winning journalist covering life science, technology, AI, politics, climate change, and culture—and bestselling author of 12 books published in 21 languages. He writes for Vanity...

Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt

The rise of authoritarian governments conjures images of violent coup d’états, revolutions, and angry mobs. However, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt argue political changes are usually slow-building and subtle, and...

Aaron Mahnke

One of the most successful podcast producers in the world, Aaron Mahnke began his career in 2015 with the launch of Lore, which went on to become a breakout hit....

Dr. Ibram X. Kendi

Dr. Ibram X. Kendi is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University and the founding director of the BU Center for Antiracist Research. He is an...

Neil Swidey

Neil Swidey is the author of Trapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles Into the Darkness, a No. 1 Boston Globe bestseller that...