James Pogue

James is a Contributing Editor at Harper’s, and write about national politics for Vanity Fair. He has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and the London Review of Books, among many others. He was a 2022 Alicia Patterson Fellow, and has received support from from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. He lives in Los Angeles, where I help run a native plant nursery. His first book is called Chosen Country: A Rebellion in the West.

@jhensonpogue

Hal Herring

Hal Herring is an award-winning journalist and contributing editor at Field and Stream magazine.
He has written for publications that range from the Atlantic Monthly and the Economist to Creative Nonfiction and Orion, and specializes in deeply reported, long-form journalism stories and essays.

‍halherring.com

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Peter Allen

Peter owns and operates Mastodon Valley Farm, a 220-acre regenerative farm in Southwestern Wisconsin where he has built a timber-frame homestead, planted thousands of fruit and nut trees, and grazes cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, and poultry. He and his wife grow all their family's food and are raising amazing children. Besides farming, he teaches and consults.

@pclarkallen

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Ashley Fitzgerald

Ashley Colby Fitzgerald is an environmental sociologist and co-founder of the Rizoma Field School.

@RizomaSchool

Paul McNiel

‍Paul McNiel grew up deep in the woods of Quebec and is a combat veteran and avid outdoorsman. He has visited and studied off-grid and homesteading families and communities for years.

@pbdmcniel

Seneca Scott

Seneca Scott, former director of SEIU Local 2021, had a political awakening and became a community advocate and urban agriculture expert. He led the historic 2024 recall of Oakland’s mayor and DA, spearheading a political revolution in the beleaguered city. His biting critiques of progressive failures have been published in Newsweek and Compact magazine, and he has been profiled by The Free Press. He has also appeared in national debates on criminal justice reform hosted by Bari Weiss alongside Michael Shellenberger and Kmele Foster."

@SenecaSpeaks21

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Aris Roussinos (TBC)

Aris Roussinos is an UnHerd columnist and a former war reporter.

‍@arisroussinos

Roxanne Ahern (TBC)

Roxanne Ahern is a writer, homesteader, holistic nutritionist, and permaculture designer. She consults with clients on nutrition, edible gardening, homesteading, and farming.

@happyholistichs

Julius Krein

Julius Krien is the editor of American Affairs. @juliuskrein

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Justin Lee

Justin Lee is an American author, speaker, YouTuber, and nonprofit executive known for his focus on building bridges between groups who disagree.

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Paul Kingsnorth

Paul Kingsnorth is an English writer who lives in the west of Ireland. He is a former deputy editor of The Ecologist and a co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project.

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Lee Fang

Lee Hu Fang is an American journalist. He was previously an investigative reporter at The Intercept, a contributing writer at The Nation, and a writer at progressive outlet the Republic Report. He began his career as an investigative blogger for ThinkProgress.

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Chris Martenson

Chris Martenson, PhD (Duke), MBA (Cornell) is an economic researcher and futurist specializing in energy and resource depletion, and co-founder of PeakProsperity.com

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