Past Authors

John Feinstein Interviewed by Mike Tirico

John Feinstein is the author of 35 books, including two #1 New York Times Bestsellers: A Season on the Brink and A Good Walk Spoiled.

Casey Gerald with Van Jones

THERE WILL BE NO MIRACLES HERE *2018 BEA BUZZ PANEL PICK* *OCTOBER INDIE NEXT PICK* “Somehow Casey Gerald has pulled off the most urgently political, most deeply personal, and most engagingly spiritual statement of our time by just looking…

Malcolm Nance

Malcolm Nance is a historian, author, and former Arabic speaking naval intelligence counter-terrorism and intelligence officer specializing in the Middle East.

David Frum

David Frum is senior editor at The Atlantic and the author of nine books. In 2001-2002, he served as speechwriter and special assistant to President George W. Bush. 

Masha Gessen

Masha Gessen is a Russian-American journalist and biographer of Vladimir Putin. Now she details how, in the space of a generation, Russia has surrendered to a new strain of autocracy.

Robert Wright

Robert Wright is one of the nation’s foremost public intellectuals and an expert on evolutionary psychology.

Thomas L. Friedman

In his most ambitious work to date, Thomas L. Friedman shows that we have entered an age of dizzying acceleration–and explains how to live in it.

Joseph Eugene Stiglitz

American economist Joseph Eugene Stiglitz is a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics and the John Bates Clark Medal.

P.J. O'Rourke

P.J. O'Rourke is the author of such bestsellers as Parliament of Whores and Give War a Chance, as well as How the Hell Did This Happen?

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