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David Brooks: Journalist

David Brooks: Journalist

David Brooks’s column on the Op-Ed page of The New York Times started in September 2003. He has been a senior editor at The Weekly Standard, a contributing editor at Newsweek and the Atlantic Monthly, and he is currently a commentator on “The Newshour with Jim Lehrer.”

David Lyon: Professor

David Lyon: Professor

David Lyon is the Principal Investigator of The New Transparency Project and Director of the Surveillance Studies Centre. He is also Queen’s Research Chair in Surveillance Studies and Professor of Sociology and of Law.

Anthony Kronman: Professor

Anthony Kronman: Professor

Anthony Kronman is Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School. A former Dean of Yale Law School, Professor Kronman teaches in the areas of contracts, bankruptcy, jurisprudence, social theory, and professional responsibility. He is the author of the book, “Education’s End”.

Neil Postman: Educator

Neil Postman: Educator

Neil Postman (1931-2003) was an American critic and educator. He authored seventeen books including: Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985), Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology (1992), and End of Education (1995).

Leonard Mlodinow: Physicist

Leonard Mlodinow: Physicist

Leonard Mlodinow is a professor of probability and random processes at CalTech. He authored “Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior”, a startling and eye-opening examination of how the unconscious mind shapes our experience of the world.

Barry Schwartz: Professor

Barry Schwartz: Professor

Barry Schwartz is Dorwin Cartwright Professor of Social Theory and Action at Swarthmore College, and author of the books: The Costs of Living: How Market Freedom Erodes the Best Things in Life; The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less; The Battle for Human Nature: Science, Morality, and Modern Life.

Michael Sandel: Professor

Michael Sandel: Professor

Michael Sandel is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University. He has been teaching political philosophy at Harvard for more than 30 years. He is the author of the books, Justice: What’s the Right Thing To Do?, and, What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets.

Thomas Friedman: Journalist

Thomas Friedman: Journalist

Thomas L. Friedman is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, and author of the books: “That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind In The World It Invented and How We Can Come Back” and “Hot, Flat, and Crowded; Why We Need A Green Revolution – And How It Can Renew America”.

Robert Reich: Professor

Robert Reich: Professor

Robert Reich is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations, and is the author of thirteen books, including The Work of Nations, Locked in the Cabinet, Supercapitalism, and Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future.

Adam Curtis: Filmmaker

Adam Curtis: Filmmaker

Adam Curtis is a BAFTA-winning documentary filmmaker, whose work includes The Century of the Self, an award winning documentary film on how Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, and Edward Bernays influenced the way corporations and governments have analyzed and controlled ‬people.