Well, since you’re all here, too… columnist at The Intercept; editing Public Seminar; professor of critical journalism at The New School; author - “Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life”; antifascism, abolition, Wittgenstein from the left.
Alternately Defiant, Dispirited, and Despondent. Without illusions but not disillusioned. Focus on Climate, Inequality and Development.
I co-edit the Polycrisis project and newsletter https://www.phenomenalworld.org/series/the-polycrisis/
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"Leftist pseudo-intellectual", The Critic
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Writer. Broke. Bylines: The Intercept, Heckle, Bella Caledonia, The National, The Herald, Source, Jacobin, openDemocracy. Scotland's leading expert on Elvis Presley-related sandwiches.
Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
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former 2x pie-eating champion of St Olaf College
a books editor at The Atlantic and spreadsheet lady for its union. once described as "friendly" on eBird
Journalist based in Ohio | @rad-institute.bsky.social Fellow, 2025 | Words in many places: @NYTmag @BW @Harpers @climate @gdnlongread
Watchdog Writers Group, University of Missouri
essayist, journalist, wandering-around-and-looking-at-stuff-ist
books: On Trails; (upcoming) In Trees.
magazine work: The New Yorker, Outside, NYMag, New York Times Book Review, Emergence, Lapham's Quarterly, n+1, Granta
website: robertmoor.com
Dep. Litigation Dir., Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. Cat enthusiast.
Art crime prof at CUNY (but opinions here are mine alone). Follow me for how-to tips on art forgery (book forthcoming from Norton), repatriation, monuments, and general museum shenanigans. She/her; queer.
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Author of the newly released, The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide, and previously of Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World. See: https://about.me/howardwfrench.com
Writer, occasional music blogger.
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Writer and civil rights lawyer. Bylines: Chicago Review of Books, The Millions, Electric Literature, Ms. Magazine, Prism, Harvard Review, and more.
An online-only & very woke bookstore in Arizona. Over 20 years in the book biz. We cater to the liberal point of view. Post as DebtorsPrison on Daily Kos. Books, politics, world travel, history. Support is appreciated: https://theliteratelizard.com
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Writer @newyorker. Author of "The Moth and the Mountain" and "Two Hours". "The Comet" will be published in February 2027.
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Staff Writer @NewYorker. Fellow in the China Center @Brookingsinst. Latest book, "The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich" https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Haves-and-Have-Yachts/Evan-Osnos/9781668204481
Humanist/atheist chaplain @ places you may love to hate. Opinions & skeets my own. NYT Bestselling & award-winning 📚Good Without God + Tech Agnostic. Reclaiming my last name from evil. Reforming the tech religion. Took '25 off social media, now ~back.
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Editor of The Bulwark
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Host of a Secret Podcast.
Also a super double-secret podcast you can't find.
Assistant Prof. at Georgia State University College of Law. Scholar working at the intersection of human rights and the environment. Alex Trebek called me a barracuda. She/her.
Novelist and literary critic. Most recent books “What Just Happened” (Knopf) and “An Extravagant Death” (Minotaur) available in paperback.
New Yorker staff writer. Author of Rogues, Empire of Pain, Say Nothing. Podcast: Wind of Change. Producer of FX series Say Nothing, now streaming on Hulu (in the US) and Disney+ (everywhere else).
New book coming April 7, 2026: London Falling.
Canadian law professor. Transnational law, labour regulation, cooperatives and corporate governance, knowledge politics. Currently obsessed with the uses of legal scholarship. Two time dad. Not even a jack of any trades.
Author of The Golden State (2018) and Mobility (2023). www.lydiakiesling.com
Poet. Shelley Memorial Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, Guggenheim Fellow, NEA Fellow. Books available through @graywolfpress.bsky.social.
Poetry, Sex, Music, Food, Politics. 🏳️🌈
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author of SEARCHES, THIS IS SALVAGED, & THE IMMORTAL KING RAO. pulitzer finalist. contributing writer at businessweek. mentor at the lighthouse writers workshop's book project. Contact me: DM, Signal (@vauhinivara.82), or my website (vauhinivara.com).
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I used to be famous on the internet. Have a blog.
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columnist for Salon.com
Staff writer for the Atlantic, former daily book critic and Monday op-ed columnist for the NYT. Author of All Joy and No Fun & On Grief. Wife of Mark, mom of R, step-mom of E and G.
Recovering Capitol Hill journalist. More opinionated than I used to be. Forever commenting on House procedure and Rules.
Voted best rebounder at my local basketball game with 80 percent of the vote, December 2022
Pet all the dogs.
Read all the books.
Brooklyn’s hub for cutting-edge creativity and connection. Home of #Next Wave, #DanceAfrica, #BAMFreeMusic, and that thing you heard about.
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Non-profit & editorially independent. Exploring science as a frequently wondrous, sometimes contentious, and occasionally troubling byproduct of human culture.
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"if that's the strangest thing you ever seen in your life, I'd say you haven't done much"
I host What Next TBD at Slate. A show about tech, power and the future. Who wants night bacon?
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“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.” – H.L. Mencken
My blog in desuetude: https://epicureandealmaker.blogspot.com
Still waiting for the Great Leap Forward
Rock critic since 1967, ain't stopping now. Consumer Guide reborn at robertchristgau.substack.com.
Editor of The Getaway Car: A Donald Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany and The Daily Sherlock Holmes. Marketing Director at the University of Chicago Press. Board member of the Uptown People’s Law Center.
Daily extracts from The Waste Books by G. C. Lichtenberg (1742-1799).
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Journalist & historian. Pub musician. Dad. Husband. Fishing obsessed. I also do dishes. Preorder: #ThePublicScholar - https://tinyurl.com/thepublicscholar. Subscribe to the Modern Medieval Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/ModernMedieval
Mathematician, writer, Orioles fan, Wisconsinite, cargo shorts dad
A publishing line devoted to elevating unduly overlooked books and authors, from McNally Jackson Books.
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culture editor, NYTimes Opinion
novelist: THE EDEN TEST (out now); THE BLINDS; NEAR ENEMY; SHOVEL READY
I wear suits now
I am a New Yorker staff writer and author of "H is for Hope," "Under a White Sky," and "The Sixth Extinction," and forthcoming “Life on a Little-Known Planet”, out in November. Learn more at elizabethkolbert.com.
Writer and poet | Editor of The Yale Review | Professor of Creative Writing at Yale | playing with a Substack about writing
Most recent book: THE INVISIBLE KINGDOM: REIMAGINING CHRONIC ILLNESS, which was a finalist for the nonfiction National Book Award.
Staff writer at the New Yorker, Letters from the U.K, "The Premonitions Bureau."
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Books and culture columnist for Slate
Author of Redeployment, Missionaries, and Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War. Teaches at Fairfield University MFA.
Words in the Guardian, the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, and others. Books on fish, Sri Lanka, and JBS Haldane. Newsletter: http://samanth.substack.com
Editor, The Guardian Long Read
I'm a writer. I don't believe in voices for the voiceless. Abolish the conditions of voicelessness instead.
Books include The Sympathizer, The Committed, A Man of Two Faces, The Refugees, and To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other.
ER Doc + Prof + Contributing Writer, The New York Times Magazine
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National Editor, The Atlantic. Author of My Age of Anxiety and Sarge: The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver. Bostonian in DC.
Executive editor, The Bulwark (thebulwark.com) /// Cofounder of The New Atlantis (thenewatlantis.com) and American Purpose (americanpurpose.com).
Staff writer at The New Yorker. Author of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
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U.S. Senator, Massachusetts. She/her/hers. Official Senate account.
https://substack.com/@senatorwarren
Author of When It's Darkness on the Delta, A Place Like Mississippi, and other works of nonfiction. Faculty fellow and writer-in-residence at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture. President, @authorsguild.org
New Yorker writer, author Dark Money, The Dark Side, Strange Justice, Landslide, wife & mom.
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Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment. Defense analysis with a focus on the Russian and Ukrainian militaries.
Droppin' mics then bringin' them to be fixed 'cause I'm nice and whatnot. Look for "Clean Slate" on Prime Video February 6th.
Meat blood, bees, things of that nature
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not as a nymph, but for a reed
books: Walkman | Alien vs. Predator | Equipment for Living: On Poetry & Pop Music | &c.
Free Palestine
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Rock Chalk
online: journalism & product management @ProPublica.org + a lotta #booksky
offline: en la discoteca, @ the swimming hole, & hosting @bookpeople.com's Happy Hour Book Club 🌈🤠🪩📚
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writer, freelance book editor, ghostwriter, and book coach | formerly Books and Fiction Editor at Esquire
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Author of LIFE ON DELAY | Contributing Writer at The Atlantic | Stories in NYT, NY mag, Esquire, Rolling Stone | Working on a doc! | johnhendrickson.org
Senior Fellow for History and Foreign Policy at
@CFR.org. Author of The Lumumba Plot. Formerly of
@ForeignAffairs.com.
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Opinion writer @ NYT, author of three books: Screaming on the Inside, Soulmates and Sad Desk Salad. Posts delete weeklyish, takes are ephemeral.
economist // former Charlottesville state rep 🏛️ // UVa prof // election reform 🇺🇸 // I write about bright lights for democracy ✨
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Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
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I write long and true. Contribute to New York mag, features editor at Hazlitt. Happiest when outdoors.
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