Columnist and author Alice Rawsthorn illuminates the mesh of design woven into every aspect of our everyday lives and communities.

Bhu Srinivasan writes about economics, history and statecraft.

Hasan Kwame Jeffries teaches, researches and writes about the African American experience from a historical perspective.

By traversing the globe and digging through archives to recover records of aggression, radicalization and conflict, Christiane-Marie Abu Sarah educates and trains audiences in innovative dispute management techniques.

Mark Forsyth strolls through the English language, telling stories, making connections and banishing hobgoblins.

Alice Dreger studies history and anatomy, and acts as a patient advocate.

Dread Scott makes revolutionary art to propel history forward.

Clay Shirky argues that the history of the modern world could be rendered as the history of ways of arguing, where changes in media change what sort of arguments are possible -- with deep social and political implications.

Kate Lister is a sex historian and lecturers at Leeds Trinity University.

Karen Bass has traveled the world to explore and capture footage from every environment across the Earth.

Emily Oster has a history of rethinking conventional wisdom.

Nina Fedoroff writes and lectures about the history and science of genetically modified organisms.

Greg Anderson uses history to question the way we think about the nature of reality itself.

Maryn McKenna recounts the often terrifying stories behind emerging drug-resistant diseases that medical science is barely keeping at bay.

Amanda Gorman made history at the presidential inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, becoming the US’s youngest inaugural poet.

Matt Ridley argues that, through history, the engine of human progress and prosperity has been, and is, "ideas having sex with each other."

TED Fellow Jon Lowenstein is a documentary photographer, filmmaker and visual artist whose work reveals what the powers that be are trying to hide.

Ariana A. Curtis gets to research, collect, interpret and display objects and stories that help tell the history of all of us and our connections to each other.

As a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Luke Syson accesses the richness of European history through sculpture.

Mikhail Zygar is the founder of Future History, the creative digital studio behind Project1917 and 1968.digital.

Linguist John McWhorter thinks about language in relation to race, politics and our shared cultural history.

The writer and presenter of the BBC Radio 4 series "A History of the World in 100 Objects" and the accompanying book.

G.T. Bynum is using data-driven outcomes and trackable goals to break down historic lines of division.

Trita Parsi delves into Middle Eastern history and politics, uncovering fresh perspectives on Iranian, Israeli, and U.S. relations -- and discovers potential solutions to brewing conflicts.

Kevin Toolis's wide-ranging command of culture and history blends meaning and connection with death as part of life.

Rutger Bregman is the author of "Utopia for Realists."

Mary Ziegler is an expert on the law, history and politics of reproduction, health care and conservatism in the United States from 1945 to the present.

Michael Tubbs became the youngest mayor in the history of the US to represent a city with a population of more than 100,000 residents.

Amy Padnani shines a light on the stories of remarkable people once overlooked by history.

Peter Donnelly is an expert in probability theory who applies statistical methods to genetic data -- spurring advances in disease treatment and insight on our evolution. He's also an expert on DNA analysis, and an advocate for sensible statistical analysis in the courtroom.