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William Deresiewicz is a former professor of English at Yale and the author of Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life.

Robert Pollin is an economist at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.  He is the author of Greening the Global Economy and has helped implement several local and state green new deals.

Andrew ‘bunnie’ Huang is one of the world’s most esteemed hackers.  He is the author of The Hardware Hacker and is a research affiliate at the MIT Media Lab, where, among other projects, he helped create a device with Edward Snowden to stop your phone from being spied on.

Jack Weatherford is a professor of anthropology at Macalester College and the New York Times bestselling-author of "Genghis Khan: The Making of the Modern World".  He makes the argument that Genghis Khan has been slandered by history and made contributions that, despite his flaws, are valuable and still felt in present-day society.

Matt Stoller is a fellow at the Open Markets Institute and an expert in monopoly and anti-trust.  He is the author of Goliath: The Hundred Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy.

Andrew Bacevich is a professor of history and international relations at Boston University.  He is the author, among other books, of America’s War for the Greater Middle East, and has won the American Book Award.  He specializes in American involvement overseas.

Janet Hardy is a sex educator and the co-author of the best-selling “The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities.” She has traveled the world teaching people about nontraditional relationships, and I recently got to chat with her about the meaning of polyamory.

Randy Wolbert is a DBT therapist and trainer and teacher of Zen.  He trained under the founder of DBT, Marsha Linehan, and is the author of “Treating BPD: Incorporating Zen and Mindfulness”.

Thomas E. Mann is a senior fellow in governance at the Brookings Institution, and is the co-author of the book, “It’s Even Worse than it looks: How the American Constitutional System collided with the New Politics of Extremism.”

Richard Grant is a travel journalist who has hung out with the drug lords of the Sierra Madre, the anarchists of the American Southwest, interviewed the dictator of Rwanda, and taken love advice from the best blues musicians of the Mississippi Delta.