12 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Classics scholar and Stoicism researcher — involved in translating and contextualizing Stoic texts for contemporary audiences.
Scientist referenced in the MISC1 context, associated with chemistry or biochemistry research.
Australian evolutionary psychologist whose research on sexual selection, mate preferences, and hormonal influences on attractiveness contributes to the evolutionary psychology of human mating.
Dutch-British historian at the University of Hong Kong — author of the People's Trilogy (Mao's Great Famine, The Tragedy of Liberation, The Cultural Revolution) — the most rigorous Western historian of the Maoist period in China.
Harvard College is the undergraduate liberal arts college of Harvard University whose amicus brief in Regents v. Bakke articulated the diversity rationale that became constitutional law.
Harvard University is the oldest university in the United States, founded in 1636, consistently ranked among the world's top research universities.
Organization co-founded by Jonathan Haidt — which advocates for viewpoint diversity in universities and tracks campus free speech — arguing that ideological homogeneity in academia corrupts research.
Stanford Graduate School of Business professor and the most rigorous academic analyst of organizational power — his books Power: Why Some People Have It and Others Don't and The Human Equation are foundational texts for understanding how power actually works in organizations.
American historian at Princeton and Hoover Institution — author of the multi-volume Stalin biography (Paradoxes of Power, Waiting for Hitler, Tyrant) — the most comprehensive and analytically serious Stalin biography in English.
Hoover Institution interview program hosted by Peter Robinson — featuring long-form conversations with scholars, statesmen, and thinkers including Thomas Sowell, Victor Davis Hanson, Niall Ferguson, and dozens of others — one of the most intellectually serious conservative media properties.
American biochemist — Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1980) for DNA sequencing methods — one of the founders of Biogen — who helped establish the molecular biology revolution that led to the Human Genome Project.
Jason Brennan's blunt guide to academic careers — arguing that most people considering a PhD should not pursue one, and that academic work is not what outsiders imagine it to be.