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

An award-winning science and technology journalist for Wired, NPR, Atlantic, and the New York Times, among others, David Ewing Duncan works to inform people about issues and developments in artificial...

Bina Venkataraman

Bina Venkataraman is a columnist at The Washington Post, focused on writing about the future. Prior to joining The Post, Venkataraman was the editorial page editor at The Boston Globe....

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 a...

Luke Dittrich

Luke Dittrich is a National Magazine Award-winning journalist and contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine. Now, in his first book, Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and...