Sociology

BA in English Literature from UC Berkeley in 1972. Graduate degrees in economics (MA, 1978) and history (MPhil, 1979) from Yale University.

Author, playwright, theater director, and lecturer. Known for his work with Neil Howe on social generations and Strauss-Howe generational theory. Co-founder and director of the Capitol Steps and co-founder of the Cappies.

English documentary filmmaker.

American author, educator, media theorist, and cultural critic. Known for his critical stance on technology and education. Best known for books such as "Amusing Ourselves to Death" and "Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology".

Scholar. Activist. Author, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power. Prof Emerita Harvard Business School.

Vaclav Smil does interdisciplinary research in the fields of energy, environmental and population change, food production and nutrition, technical innovation, risk assessment, and public policy. He has published 35 books and more than 400 papers on these topics. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Science Academy), and the Member of the Order of Canada; in 2010 he was listed by Foreign Policy among the top 100 global thinkers. He has worked as a consultant for many US, EU and international institutions, has been an invited speaker in nearly 400 conferences and workshops in the USA, Canada, Europe, Asia and Africa, and has lectured at many universities in North America, Europe and East Asia. His wife Eva is a physician and his son David is an organic chemist

author of WORDSLUT and CULTISH (HarperCollins). (I never tweet. Try me on IG! amanda_montell)

Journalist, author, and filmmaker. Known for reporting in-the-field on dirty, dangerous, and demanding occupations and the experience of infantry combat. Author of The Perfect Storm, which was adapted into a major motion picture. Covered the War in Afghanistan and wrote the book War, which served as the background for the documentary film Restrepo. Explores themes of brotherhood, trauma, and the relationship of the individual to society.

There has never been an immortal society. Figuring out why. Founder of Bismarck Analysis. @longnow fellow. Bylines @CityJournal @palladiummag @TheNatlInterest

Visiting presidential professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, affiliated senior scholar at the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), and teacher at the London School of Economics and the Barcelona Institute for International Studies.

American author and political activist. Prominent figure in the Democratic Socialists of America. Award-winning columnist, essayist, and author of 21 books. Best known for her book "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America".

Cultural and literary historian, author, and university professor. Known for his writings on eighteenth-century English literature, America's class system, and his exploration of the gap between the romantic myth and reality of war.