Jan Swafford is an American composer and the author of several musical biographies.Av Duncan Gammie

Thomas Barfield is an anthropologist at Boston University, and the author of several books, including The Nomadic Alternative.Av Duncan Gammie

Stuart Reid is an executive editor at Foreign Affairs, and the author of The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination.Av Duncan Gammie

Robin Hanson is an economist at George Mason University. His Substack is Overcoming Bias, and he is the author of multiple books, including The Elephant in the Brain.Av Duncan Gammie

Ellen Bass is a poet, the winner of three Pushcart Prizes, and the author of several collections, including Indigo.Av Duncan Gammie

Nicholas Krohley is a founder of FrontLine Advisory, and the co-author of Warrior Diplomats: Civil Affairs Forces on the Front Lines.Av Duncan Gammie

Michael Katz is a professor of Russian and East European Studies at Middlebury College. He is a translator of several works of Dostoevsky, including Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov.Av Duncan Gammie

Dave Rearick circumnavigated the globe, and is the author of Spirit of a Dream: A Sailor's Ultimate Journey Around the World Alone.Av Duncan Gammie

Michael Joyce is a novelist, poet, critic and the author of works of electronic literature, including afternoon, a story.Av Duncan Gammie

Milan Ćirković is a professor at the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade, and the author of The Great Silence: Science and Philosophy of Fermi's Paradox.Av Duncan Gammie

Robert L. Kelly is an archaeologist at the University of Wyoming, and the author of several books including The Fifth Beginning: What Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell Us about Our Future.Av Duncan Gammie

Andrew Walder is a political sociologist at Stanford, and the author of several books on Mao and the Cultural Revolution. His latest book is Civil War in Guangxi: The Cultural Revolution on China's Southern Periphery. The podcast now has a Patreon! Available here: https://www.patreon.com/dunctankAv Duncan Gammie

Matt Simon is a writer at Wired Magazine, and the author of A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies.Av Duncan Gammie

Warren Motte is a professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is the author of several books, and an editor of Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature.Av Duncan Gammie

Robert Beachy is a history professor at Yonsei University and the author of Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity.Av Duncan Gammie

Malcolm Harris is a journalist and author of several books. His most recent work is Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism and the World.Av Duncan Gammie

Derrick Jensen is an author and environmentalist. He is the author of several books, including The Myth of Human Supremacy.Av Duncan Gammie

Alan Mikhail is a professor of history at Yale, and the author of God's Shadow: The Ottoman Sultan Who Shaped the Modern World.Av Duncan Gammie

Steve Fuller is a professor of sociology at the University of Warwick. He is the author of several books, including Post-Truth: Knowledge as a Power Game.Av Duncan Gammie

David Yaffe is a professor of humanities at Syracuse University and the author of Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell. His Substack is: https://davidyaffe.substack.com/Av Duncan Gammie

Adam Hochshild is a historian and the author of, American Midnight: The Great War, A Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis.Av Duncan Gammie

Dave Andrews is an activist and the author of several books, including Christi-Anarchy: Discovering a Radical Spirituality of Compassion.Av Duncan Gammie

Bev Stohl was formerly the assistant of Noam Chomsky for over 20 years. She recently wrote a book called, Chomsky and Me: A Memoir.Av Duncan Gammie

William Deresiewicz taught English at Yale University and is the author of Death of the Artist: How Creatives are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech and most recently, The End of Solitude: Selected Essays on Culture and Society.Av Duncan Gammie

James Stevens Curl is an architect and historian, and the author of a book about Modern architecture, Making Dystopia: The Strange Rise and Survival of Architectural Barbarism.Av Duncan Gammie

Malachi O'Doherty is a journalist in Northern Ireland, and the author of several books, including The Telling Year: Belfast 1972.Av Duncan Gammie

Marc Levinson is an economist and author of, "The Box: How Shipping Containers Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger."Av Duncan Gammie

Daniel Mullen is a Scottish painter based out of Rotterdam.Av Duncan Gammie

Hannah Lucinda Smith is a journalist with The Times of London, and the author of Erdoğan Rising: The Battle for the Soul of Turkey.Av Duncan Gammie

Jed Rasula is a professor at the University of Georgia, and the author of Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century.Av Duncan Gammie

Joel Whitney is the author of Finks: How the CIA Tricked the World's Best Writers.Av Duncan Gammie

Alberto Gerosa is a performance artist and filmmaker based out of Hong Kong.Av Duncan Gammie

Anna Lembke is a psychiatrist and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. She is the author of Drug Dealer, MD and Dopamine Nation.Av Duncan Gammie

Jhanelle Thomas is a psychology researcher and the co-author of, "Disappearing in the Age of Hypervisibility: Definition, Context, and Perceived Psychological Consequences of Social Media Ghosting."Av Duncan Gammie

James Curtis is a biographer, and the recent author of Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker's Life.Av Duncan Gammie

Loren Toussaint is a professor of psychology at Luther College, and the director of their "Laboratory for the Investigation of Mind, Body, and Spirit." He is also Chair of the Discover Forgiveness advisory council at the Templeton World Charity Foundation, and president of the Forgiveness Foundation.…

Rosamund Bartlett is an expert on Russian literature, and the author of several books, including, "Tolstoy: A Russian Life."Av Duncan Gammie

Jan Swafford is an American composer, as well as a music critic and author of several musical biographies.Av Duncan Gammie

Jason Lewis is an American politician, a former talk radio host and represented Minnesota's 2nd Congressional District in the House of Representatives. He is the recent author of "Party Animal: The Truth about President Trump, Power Politics and The Partisan Press," available to purchase here.Av Duncan Gammie

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Richard Davies is an economist at Bristol University and the author of, "Extreme Economies: What Life At The World's Margins Can Teach Us About Our Future."Av Duncan Gammie

Meirion Jones is a journalist and editor at The Bureau of Investigative Journalism. He has worked on a number of high-profile stories, including exposing the crimes of Jimmy Savile.Av Duncan Gammie

James Fallon is a neuroscientist and professor of psychiatry and human behavior at UC Irvine School of Medicine.Av Duncan Gammie

Chris McNamara is a big wall climber, ex-wingsuit BASE jumper and the author of more than ten books.Av Duncan Gammie

David Vincent is a social historian at the Open University, and is the author of, "A History of Solitude."Av Duncan Gammie

Daniel K. Richter is a professor of American history at the University of Pennsylvania, and the author of "Facing East from Indian Country."Av Duncan Gammie

Ananyo Bhattacharya is a correspondent for The Economist, and the author of The Man From The Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann.Av Duncan Gammie

Gabriel Licina is a biohacker and the founder of Scihouse, a non-profit bioengineering group.Av Duncan Gammie

Vitali Shkliarov is an expert in US-Russian relations and worked on the Presidential campaigns of Barack Obama and Bernie Sanders.Av Duncan Gammie

Timothy Denevi is a professor at the MFA program at George Mason University, and is the author of "Hyper" and "Freak Kingdom: Hunter S. Thompson's Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism."Av Duncan Gammie