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Francis Fukuyama
American political scientist, political economist, and author
W. E. B. Du Bois
American sociologist and activist (1868–1963)
Sam Harris
American author, philosopher and neuroscientist (born 1967)
Eric Hoffer
American philosopher
Temple Grandin
American doctor of animal science, author, and autism activist
Jacque Fresco
American futurist and self-described social engineer
David Starr Jordan
American ichthyologist and educator (1851-1931)
Gita Gopinath
Indian-American economist
Garrett Hardin
American ecologist (1915–2003)
Robert Greene
American author
Arjun Appadurai
social-cultural anthropologist (born 1949)
Marilyn Ferguson
American writer (1938-2008)
John Grinder
American linguist, developer of neuro-linguistic programming
Mancur Olson
American economist (1932–1998)
Susan Cain
self-help writer
Stewart Brand
American writer (born 1938)
Tyler Cowen
American economist, columnist and blogger
Michael Kimmel
American sociologist
John McWhorter
American academic and linguist
Mike Davis
American writer, urban theorist, political activist, and historian from Southern California (1946–2022)
Erik Larson
American author and journalist
Charles E. Osgood
American psychologist (1916–1991)
Steven Hassan
American mental health professional, author, and cult expert.
Zeynep Tüfekçi
Turkish sociologist and writer (born 1970)
Maurice Berger
American art historian (1956–2020)
David Denby
American film critic
David Korten
writer, economic adviser, sustainability advocate
Frances Fox Piven
American sociologist (born 1932)
Paul Levinson
American writer and professor of communications and media studies
Richard M. Weaver
American scholar (1910–1963)
William Julius Wilson
American sociologist
Ben Sherwood
American author, journalist, and entrepreneur
Manning Marable
American professor of public affairs and African American studies at Columbia University and biographer (1950–2011)
Corliss Lamont
American activist (1902–1995)
Marjorie Garber
American academic (1944-)
Melissa Harris-Perry
American journalist and professor
William Elliot Griffis
American protestant minister and Japanologist (1843–1928)
Carl Gershman
President of the National Endowment for Democracy
Yosef Ben-Jochannan
American historian and writer (1918-2015)
Safiya Noble
American professor and author
Ken Auletta
American writer, journalist, and media critic (born 1942)
Michael Berenbaum
American scholar, author, historian and rabbi (born 1945)
Edward Jay Epstein
American journalist
Marimba Ani
anthropologist and African Studies scholar
Roger Fisher
American professor of law (1922-2012)
James W. Ford
American politician (1893–1957)
M. K. Asante
American writer, filmmaker and academic
Staughton Lynd
American activist and lawyer (1929–2022)
Allan C. Carlson
American social scientist
Michael Smerconish
American journalist
Red Jordan Arobateau
American author, playwright, poet and painter
Frank W. Blackmar
American historian (1854-1931)
George Elliott Howard
American historian (1849–1928)
Lucy Mabel Hall-Brown
American physician, professor of physiology and hygiene, physician to Vassar College (1843–1907)
Wilbur J. Cohen
American social scientist and politician (1913–1987)
Colin Beavan
Environmentalist blogger
Irving Zola
American activist (1935–1994)
Kathleen Higgins
American philosopher
Shelby Steele
American academic
Darrel Ray
American writer and atheist activist