Biographies

Aaron M. Renn – The Consultant and the Cathedral
Aaron W. Hughes – Cold Eyes on Sacred Ground
Adam Davidson and the Narrative Reconstruction of Economic Journalism
Adam Mansbach
Adam Tooze
Adrian Vermeule
Agustin Fuentes
Aimee Bender
Akhil Gupta
Alain de Benoist
Alan Gewirth
Alana Newhouse – Editor, Founder, Entrepreneur
Alice Munro
Allan Bloom
Allan V. Horwitz & Normal Suffering
Allen Berger and the Second Stage of Recovery
Allen Guttmann
Amanda Alexander and the Invention of the Civilian
Amartya Sen
Amy Alkon and the Scientizing of American Advice Writing
Amy Bloom
Amy Guttman
Amy Wallace and the Migration
Amy Wax: Truth, Transgression, and the Modern University
Amy-Jill Levine
Andrea Seigel
Andrei Shleifer
Andrew Barrett
Andrew Gelman – The Gardener of Forking Paths
Andrew Marantz: A Reporter Among the Talkers
Andrew Napolitano & The Long Argument
Anthony D. Smith
Angelo Codevilla
Anthony Giddens
Anthony Lane
Antonya Nelson
Aphrodite Jones and the Industrialization of American True Crime
Arturo Escobar
Arynne Wexler
Ashley St. Clair and the Platform Era of American Conservatism
Avishai Margalit
Ayelet Waldman
Ayn Rand
Bari Weiss
Ben Fordham
Ben Mezrich: Mythographer of Disruption
Ben Sasse & The Wisdom
Benedict Anderson
Benjamin Schreier
Bernard Haykel
Bill Handel
Binnie Kirshenbaum
Blake Bailey
Bob Ellis
Bob Grant
Brandy Zadrozny
Brent Musburger and the Architecture of the Spectacle
Brian Leiter & the Naturalist’s Program
Brian Stelter
Brit Hume and the Migration of Media Legitimacy
Bruno Latour
Bryan Burrough and the Architecture of American Power
Caleb Smith – The Warden’s Critic
Carl Schmitt – Philosopher of the Primate Brain
Carol Dweck
Carolyn Heilbrun
Catharine MacKinnon
Catherine Seipp and the Network That Replaced the Newsroom
Chaim Grade: The Gravestone Carver
Chaim Potok: Holding Both Halves
Chris Kavanagh: Ritual, Fusion, and the Anthropology of the Guru Age
Chris Masters
Christine Korsgaard
Christoph Bezemek
Christopher Lasch and the Culture of Narcissism
Christopher Rufo and the Counter-March Through the Institutions
Christopher Caldwell: The Conservative Who Read The Left
Claire Hoffman: Chronicler of American Enchantment After Institutional Religion
Clarence Thomas and the Originalist Project
Craig Van Rooyen
Curtis Yarvin
Cynthia Ozick
Dale Carnegie
Dan Senor
Dan Sperber & the Reconstructive Mind
Dan Turrentine: Fundraiser, Operative, Commentator
Daniel Aaron
Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Sperber and the Historicization of Halakha
Danielle Blau
Danit Brown
Daphne Merkin and the Ethnography of Elite Neurotic Culture
Dara Horn
Daron Acemoglu
Darren Beattie
David Armitage
David Bromwich – Critic, Moralist & The Last Man Of Letters
David Brooks – The Useful Man
David Duke & the Memoir as Apparatus
David Enoch
David Foster Wallace: The Writer of Attention in an Age of Distraction
David G. Hall
David Garrow and the Limits of Public Memory
David Hollinger
David Horovitz: Journalist, Editor, and Interpreter of Israel to the World
David Klinghoffer and the Argument Against Materialism
David Lat and the Prestige Economy of American Law
David Marr
David Morgan
David N. Myers – Between Archive and Advocacy
David Poland and the Reinvention of Entertainment Journalism
David Rensin and the Oral History of Hollywood Labor
David Samuels & The Cost
David Sanger and the Interpretation of the American Security State
David Schnarch and the Problem of the Self in Marriage
David Stahel: Historian of German Defeat in the East
Dean Baquet
Deepok Chopra
Dennis McDougal: Dynasties, Monopolies, and Murder
Dennis Prager Decoding
Derek Parfit
Desmond Ford and the Limits of Adventist Reform
Diana Spechler
Dominic Cummings
E. Michael Jones and the Problem of the Single Cause
Edgar Morin and the Revolt Against Fragmentation
Edward Said
Ehud Havazelet
Elisa Albert
Elizabeth Rosner
Elizabeth S. Anderson and the Recovery of Relational Equality
Ellen G. White – The Prophet as Architect
Emma Tucker
Eric Longabardi: An Investigative Journalist Between Two Media Orders
Eric Schulzke
Éric Zemmour
Erick Erickson
Ernest Becker and the Denial of Death
Ernest Gellner
Eric Kaufmann
Ernst Mayr: Population Thinking and the Shape of Modern Biology
Erwin Chemerinsky and the Post-Warren Court Coalition
Eugene Volokh
Evan Osnos: Archivist of Late Liberal Institutional Consciousness
Evan Wright and the Ethnography of American Decentralization
Ezra Klein and the Architecture of Explanatory Liberalism
Faye Ginsburg
Frank Kern
Franz Boas
Fredric Jameson
G.A. Henty’s Classroom
Gabriella Turnaturi and the Sociology of Uncertainty
Gary Chartier
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
George Gilder
George Packer
George Soros
Gerald Stone
Gordon S. Wood
Grace Paley
Gregory Cochran and the Limits of Scientific Caution
Guillaume Faye
Gustavo Arellano
Hans Kelsen
Harold Bloom’s Sacred Values
Harry Levin
Harry Knowles and the Birth of Networked Fandom
Harvey Cox
Heather Mac Donald: Defector from Theory
Hector Becerra
Helen Lewis
Henry Blofeld and the End of a Broadcasting Tradition
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
H.L.A. Hart
Homi K. Bhabha
Hortense Spillers
Howard Gardner
Howard Zinn
Hyam Maccoby: The Librarian Who Put Paul on Trial
Ian Bremmer
Ian Masters
Ilana Stanger-Ross
J. Otto Pohl: Historian of Soviet Ethnic Repression
Jack Halberstam
Jack London
Jack M. Balkin: Custodian of a Fraying Constitution
Jacob Bernstein
James Boyd White
James Wood and the Last Defense of the Novel
Jamie Martin
Jared Kushner
Jason Arday
JD Vance – From Elegy to VP
Jean Raspail
Jean-François Gariépy and the YouTube Era
Jechiel Yaakov Weinberg & the Remnants of the Fire
Jeff Pearlman: Chronicler of the Messy Truth Behind American Sports Myths
Jeffrey C. Alexander – The Last Grand Theorist
Jeffrey Goldberg – Friend of Power
Jeffrey Wells and the Transformation of Film Criticism
Jeffrey Sachs
Jeffrey Toobin and the Juridification of American Public Life
Jerome Wakefield and the Boundaries of Mental Disorder
Jerry Z. Muller and the Limits of System
Jill Abramson
Jill Stewart and the Unmaking of Civic Journalism in Los Angeles
Jim Goad
Jim Romenesko
Joan Wallach Scott
Joanna Hershon
Joe Piscopo
Joe Pyne
John Gottman and the Science of Marriage
John Kobylt
John L. Smith and the Lives Behind Las Vegas
John Laws
John M. Doris and the Science of Moral Failure
John W. Meyer
John Marini
John Podhoretz
John Rawls: Domesticating Contingency
John Sawatsky and the Science of the Interview
John J. Jost
Jon Papernick
Jonah Goldberg
Jonathan Ames
Jonathan Franzen and the Last Defense of the Social Novel
Jonathan Haidt and the Big Misunderstanding
Jonathan Swan
Jonathan Zittell Smith
Jordan Bardella
Jordan Peterson
Joseph Kahn
Joseph Sobran and the Fragmentation of American Conservatism
Joseph Telushkin
Judith Butler
Jules Chametzky
Jürgen Habermas
Justin Murphy and the Post-Academic Scholar
Justin Weinberg, the Daily Nous and the Convenient Center
Kara Swisher
Karen Armstrong
Karen Bender
Karl Stefanovic
Katherine Weber
Katrina Forrester
Ken Dito
Ken Minyard and the Los Angeles Morning
Kerry Howley
Kevin Roderick and the Passage
Kevin Starr
Kevin Walling
Kim Komando
Costin Vlad Alamariu aka BAP
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Kyle Sandilands
Lauren Berlant: The Theorist of Cruel Optimism
Lauren Grodstein
Lauren Southern and the Platform Insurgency
Laurene Powell Jobs and Capital Without Command
Laurie Graff
Laurie Gwen Shapiro
Lawrence Grossman and the Institutional Record of American Judaism
Lawrence Kohlberg
Lawrence McEnerney and the Hidden Curriculum of Expert Writing
Lawrence Wright and the Closed World
Lee Edelman
Lee Habeeb
Leo Marx
Leo XIV: Chicago, Peru, Rome
Leora Skolkin-Smith
Liah Greenfeld & Nationalism
Linton Besser
Lionel Trilling
Loïc Wacquant: The Boxer, the Ghetto, and the Penal State
Lorie Moore
Louise Hay
Lowell Cohn
Lynn Hunt
M. H. Abrams
MacKenzie Scott and the Reinvention of Elite Giving
Maggie Haberman
Malcolm Bull and the Excluded Standpoint
Malcolm Knox: A Life in Australian Letters
Mark Bowden: Cartographer of Institutions Under Stress
Mark Juergensmeyer
Marc B. Shapiro and the Six Layers of Managed Disclosure
Margaret Mead
Margot Singer
Marine Le Pen
Mark Brandt
Mark Ebner: Chronicler of the Los Angeles Underside
Mark Halperin & the Architecture of Political Knowledge
Mark Helprin
Mark Leibovich and the Sociology of American Elite Performance
Mark McGurl and the Institutional Turn in American Literary Studies
Mark Oppenheimer & The Broker’s Wager
Mark Simone
Martha Nussbaum
Martin E. P. Seligman
Marty Beckerman: The Last Freelancer of the Pre-Platform Internet
Matt Drudge and the Collapse of the Editorial Gatekeeper
Matt Labash and the End of the Magazine Era
Matt Murray
Matt Welch: A Life Against the Emergency State
Matthew Browne: The Measurer of Gurus
Melinda French Gates and Elite-Network Power
Melvin Jules Bukiet
Merve Emre Among Her Set
Michael Anton and the Theory of Regime Conflict
Michael Beckley – Net Power
Michael Cunningham
Michael Fumento and the Career of the Empiricist Dissenter
Michael Huemer
Michael Kammen
Michael Lewis and the Sociology of Expertise
Michael Malice and the Migration of Ideological Authority
Michael Medved
Michael Millerman and the Post-Academic Intellectual
Michael Scheuer – The Analyst Outside the Walls
Michael Tracey and the Journalism of Procedural Skepticism
Michael Wolff and the Sociology of Power
Michel Foucault, 1926-1984
Michel Houellebecq
Michèle Lamont
Michelle Goldberg
Michelle Malkin and the Remaking of the American Right
Mickey Kaus – The Partial Insider
Mike Benz & The Censorship Complex
Mitchell James Kaplan
Moira Greyland
Molly Jong-Fast
Murray Bowen and the Family as an Emotional System
N. Katherine Hayles
Naama Goldstein
Nancy MacLean
Napleon Hill
Nathan Cofnas: The Auditor at the Border
Neal C. Wilson and the Global Turn in Seventh-day Adventism
Neil Strauss and the Literature of Self-Construction
Niall Ferguson & the Performance of History
Nick McKenzie
Nikki Finke
Nigel Farage
Noah Shachtman and the Digital Transformation of the American Newsroom
Norman Podhoretz
Omar Sultan Haque – Physician, Psychiatrist, Philosopher
Onora O’Neill
Owen Benjamin – From Sullivan & Son to Beartaria
Patrick Soon-Shiong
Patrick White
Paul Gilroy
Paul Pringle and the Sociology of Institutional Self-Protection
Paul Barry
Paul Bloom and the Misunderstanding Frame
Paul Craig Roberts
Paul Gottfried – The Laundered Theorist
Paul Kelly
Paul Kennedy and the Limits of Power
Paul Krugman
Pearl Abraham
Peter Berg and the Cinema of Competence
Peter Zeihan
Peter Baker – The Custodian of Continuity
Peter L. Berger
Peter Singer
Philip Knightley
Philip Pettit
Quinn Slobodian
R. H. S. Stolfi: From the Eastern Front to the Defense of Hitler
Rachel Resnick
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Randall Collins – Situations All the Way Down
Randall Schweller & The Anarchy Within
Rebecca Ellis
Rebecca Goldstein
Renee DiResta
Revilo P. Oliver and the Migration of Classical Scholarship into American Extremism
Rita Felski – After Suspicion
Richard B. Spencer: The Man Who Branded the Alt-Right
Richard Hanania and the Rise of the Independent Polemicist
Richard Nisbett
Richmal Crompton and the Author She Meant to Be
Richard Posner
Richard Russo
Richard Thaler
Rick Atkinson and War as Organization
Rick Warren
Rob Stutzman: A Life in the California Political Trade
Robert Alter: The Authority of Attention
Robert Anthony Siegel
Robert Caro and the Anatomy of Power
Robert Dahl
Robert Draper and The Grandson’s Question
Robert Kagan – Defending Liberalism by Illiberal Means
Robert Oscar Lopez
Robert Sapolsky – The Stanford Synthesizer
Robin Bertolucci
Rod Dreher
Roger Pilon
Roland Barthes
Ronald Dworkin and the Argument from Integrity
Rony Guldmann: Philosopher at the Gates
Ross Douthat
Russ Roberts: From Chicago Price Theory to Practical Wisdom
Russell McCutcheon
Ruth Wisse
Sacvan Bercovitch
Sally Rooney: The Chronicler of Institutionalized Self-Consciousness
Sam Harris and the Secular Mind
Samuel Moyn
Sana Krasikov
Sandra Braman and Information Policy as Modern Sovereignty
Sanford Levinson and the Limits of Constitutional Faith
Saskia Sassen
Scott Kraft
Shalom Auslander
Sharon Waxman
Sheila Miyoshi Jager and Memory as Statecraft
Shlomo Einhorn
Sianne Ngai and the Emotional Texture of Late Capitalism
Skip Bayless: The Heel
Stanley Fish
Stein Ringen and the Question of Good Government
Stephen A. Smith and the Remaking of American Sports Media
Stephen Covey
Stephen Greenblatt & The Touch of the Real
Stephen Kotkin
Stephen J. Whitfield
Steve Lopez
Stephen P. Turner – The Philosopher of the Unstated
Steve Almond
Steve Sailer – The Noticer Lit Analysis
Steve Stern
Steven B. Smith and the Vocation of Liberal Education
Steven Brill and the Engineering of Elite Transparency
Steven Marcus
Steven Pinker
Susanne Klingenstein – The Canon and the Press
Taffy Brodesser-Akner: Jewish Money, Jewish Memory, and Jewish America
Tamar Fox
Taylor Sheridan and the Question of Who Governs
Taylor Swift and the Architecture of Post-Album Celebrity
Terry Moran
Terry Tang
Thane Rosenbaum: Law, Memory, and the Limits of Liberal Order
Thomas Edsall
Thomas Luckmann
Thomas Pogge
Thomas Scanlon
Tim Ingold
Timothy Snyder
Tobias Wolff
Tom Holland
Tom Peters and the Reinvention of the American Corporation
Toni Morrison: The Architect of an American Literature
Tony Robbins and the Making of Therapeutic Capitalism
Tova Mirvis
Vanessa Grigoriadis: Chronicler of Elite American Culture in Transition
Viktor Frankl and the Will to Meaning
Walker Connor
Walt Whitman
Walter Benn Michaels
Walter J. Ong
Walter Kirn: From Meritocracy’s Inside to the Edge of the American Simulation
Wayne Dyer
Wayne Judd
Will Wilkinson: From Libertarian to Liberal
William Luther Pierce and the Making of the Modern Radical Right
William T. Vollmann
Yael Goldstein Love
Ye and the Jewish Question: A Bio of Belief, Bigotry, and Aftermath
Yitzchak Etshalom and the Pedagogy of Unresolved Tension
Yitzchok Adlerstein and the Architecture of Multi-Coalition Speech
Yoram Hazony’s Covenant Against Empire
Yuval Noah Harari