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William Deresiewicz - Death of the Artist?

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.

James S. Curl - Bad Architecture

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.

Malachi O’Doherty - Troubles in Ireland

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

Marc Levinson - Shipping Containers

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

Daniel Mullen - Painter

Daniel Mullen is a Scottish painter based out of Rotterdam.

Hannah Lucinda Smith - Turkish Politics

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

Jed Rasula - Dada

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.

Joel Whitney - The CIA Vs. Art

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

Alberto Gerosa - Performance Artist

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

Anna Lembke - Dopamine Nation

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.