Mimi Swartz

Award-Winning Investigative Journalist, Texas Monthly Executive Editor & Heart Disease Expert

Morgan Jerkins​

Contributing Editor at Catapult & Author of "This Will Be My Undoing"

Joseph Epstein

Best-Selling Author & Essayist

Simon Lovell

English Comedy Magician, Card Shark Actor and Con Man

Abigail Tarttelin

Author of "Golden Boy" and "Flick"

Jeffrey Kluger

Journalist; Editor and Writer at TIME MAGAZINE. Author of 8 books, including APOLLO 13.

Damon Young

Co-Founder of Very Smart Brothas & Author of "What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker"

Nicole Chung

Author of "All You Can Ever Know;" Contributing Writer for The Atlantic; Asian-American Activist

Nadifa Mohamed

Award-Winning Novelist; Known for "Black Mamba Boy"

Lindy West

Feminism & Popular Culture Contributing Opinion Writer for the New York Times

Susan Goldberg

Editorial Director of National Geographic Partners & Editor in Chief of National Geographic Magazine

Thomas King

Award-Winning First Nations Writer

James Hamblin

Preventive Medicine Physician, Lecturer at Yale School of Public Health, Senior Editor & Writer for The Atlantic, Author

Rob Neyer

Baseball Author, Sports Writer

Amy Wallace

Editor-at-Large for Los Angeles Magazine, Correspondent for GQ & Co-Author of "Creativity, Inc."

Jenny Blake

Career & Business Strategist; Author of "Pivot: The Only Move That Matters is Your Next One"

Todd Purdum

Senior writer at POLITICO and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair

Jennifer Pharr Davis

Long-Distance Hiker & Author; Overall Record Holder on the Appalachian Trail & The First Woman to Set That Mark

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Kimberley A. Strassel

Editorial Board Member and Columnist The Wall Street Journal

Rod Dreher

Senior Editor for The American Conservative

Julian Baggini

Julian Baggini is the author of several books about philosophy written for a general audience. He is the author of The Pig that Wants to be Eaten and 99 other thought experiments and is co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Philosophers' Magazine.

Tim Federle

Award-Winning Writer, Former Broadway Dancer

Laura Snyder

Professor; Science Historian; Philosopher; Author of "The Philosophical Breakfast Club"

Amanda Lindhout

Executive Director of The Global Enrichment Foundation; Captivity Survivor, Inspirational Speaker & Author of "A House in the Sky"

Ben Fong-Torres

Author, Broadcaster & Music Journalist

Anna Holmes

Founder and Editor of Online Women's Magazine, Jezebel. Editor, writer (Glamour, NY Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, New Yorker.com, many others.)

Michael Hyatt

Intentional Leadership Expert, Best-Selling Author & Former Chairmen of Thomas Nelson Publishers

Helen Joyce

Journalist & Author of "Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality"

Thomas Pogge

Philosopher Thomas Pogge wants to ensure medications get to those who need it most. He has published on a wide range of subjects such as global justice and human rights.

Joyce Maynard

Journalist & Best-Selling Author

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