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Sean Patrick Mulroy

Sean Patrick Mulroy is an award-winning artist and educator. His first full-length collection of poetry, Hated for the Gods, was published by Button Poetry in 2023. 

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Kate Yoon

Kate Yoon has a DPhil in Politics from Oxford and a JD from Yale Law School. She was formerly an editor at the Law and Political Economy Blog.

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Tim Sahay

Tim Sahay edits the Polycrisis newsletter at Phenomenal World with Kate Mackenzie. He was formerly Senior Policy Manager at the Green New Deal Network.

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Paul Pierson

Paul Pierson is John Gross Endowed Chair and Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He has coauthored four books with Jacob S. Hacker, including Winner-Take-All Politics.

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Lily Geismer

Lily Geismer is Professor of History at Claremont McKenna College. Her latest book, coedited with Brent Cebul, is Mastery and Drift: Professional-Class Liberals Since the 1960s.

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Heather Gautney

Heather Gautney is Professor of Sociology at Fordham University. She was a senior policy advisor for the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign and the U.S. Senate Budget Committee as well as co-chair of the Biden-Sanders Task Force on Education. Her latest book is The New Power Elite.

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Joseph Cuomo

Joseph Cuomo, who lives in New York, is a poet, as well as a former journalist and public radio host. He has produced an award-winning public radio documentary on American Fundamentalism, Ronald Reagan and the Prophecy of Armageddon, broadcast in the United States, Canada, and Australia. His work has also appeared in the New Yorker Online and Don’t Tell Mama!: The Penguin Book of Italian American Writing.

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Kian Braulik

Kian Braulik is a student at Brown and a former editorial assistant at Boston Review. Her writing has also appeared in Jacobin.

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Richard D. Mohr

Richard D. Mohr is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and of the Classics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of God and Forms in Plato, Gays/Justice, The Splendid Disarray of Beauty, and several other books on gays, gods, and beauty.

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Rachel Ida Buff

Rachel Ida Buff is a writer and professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

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Abena Ampofoa Asare

Abena Ampofoa Asare is Associate Professor of Modern African Affairs at Stony Brook University. She is author of Truth Without Reconciliation: A Human Rights History of Ghana and When Will the Joy Come: Black Women in the Ivory Tower.

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Jonathan S. Blake

Jonathan S. Blake is a political scientist, writer, and associate director of programs at the Berggruen Institute. He is coauthor, with Nils Gilman, of Children of a Modest Star: Planetary Thinking for an Age of Crises.

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Peter Dale Scott

Peter Dale Scott is a former Canadian diplomat and professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. His latest poetry collection is Walking on Darkness. He also translated, with Czelaw Milosz, Selected Poems by Zbigniew Herbert, and with Milosz and Alissa Valles, The Collected Poems: 1956–1998 by Zbigniew Herbert.

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Joy Priest

Joy Priest is a poet and scholar. She is the author of HORSEPOWER, selected by the former U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey as the winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, and the editor of Once a City Said: A Louisville Poets Anthology.

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Hannah Liberman

Hannah Liberman is a writer and editor based in Los Angeles. She was formerly an assistant editor and arts editor at Boston Review.

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Travis Knoll

Travis Knoll received his PhD from Duke in 2022 and teaches history at Wingate University. His writing has also appeared in Jacobin and the Washington Post.

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Mark Paul

Mark Paul is an assistant professor at the Bloustein School of Planning & Public Policy in Rutgers University. His research interests include environmental justice and the consequences of income inequality.

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Julie Rose

Julie Rose is Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. In 2016 she completed her most recent book Free Time.

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Lea Ypi

Lea Ypi is Ralph Miliband Professor in Politics and Philosophy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her latest book is Indignity: A Life Reimagined.

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William Clare Roberts

William Clare Roberts is Associate Professor of Political Science at McGill University. His most recent book is Marx’s Inferno (2017), and he is currently working on a afterword to a new translation of Capital, Volume One.

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Tamara Metz

Tamara Metz researches gender and care in U.S. culture and is Associate Professor of Political Science and Humanities at Reed College. She is the author of the 2010 book Untying the Knot: Marriage, the State, and the Case for Their Divorce.

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Nancy Hirschmann

Nancy Hirschmann is Geraldine R. Segal Professor in American Social Thought at the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently working on a book project called Freedom, Power, and Disability.

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Elisabeth R. Anker

Elisabeth R. Anker is Professor of American Studies and Political Science at the George Washington University. She is the author of multiple books, including Ugly Freedoms (2022) and Orgies of Feeling: Melodrama and the Politics of Freedom (2014).

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Lorna N. Bracewell

Lorna N. Bracewell is a theorist of feminism and associate professor of political science at Flagler College. She is the author of the 2021 book Why We Lost the Sex Wars: Sexual Freedom in the #MeToo Era.

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