Bryan Johnson has the best comprehensive biomarkers of anyone in the world. Quantitatively, the healthiest person on earth. His Project Blueprint asks the question “are we the first generation who won’t die?” Johnson is the founder of Kernel, creator of the world’s first mainstream non-invasive neuroimaging system; and OS Fund, where he invested $100M in the predictable engineering of atoms, molecules, and organisms. He is an outdoor adventure enthusiast, pilot, and author of two children’s books, and a sci-fi novel, We The People. Previously, Johnson built Braintree Venmo which was acquired by PayPal for $800 million.

Tao Lin is the author of ten books, including Leave Society and Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change. He lives in Hawaii.

Catherine Pakaluk is an American economist, social philosopher, author, and mother of eight. She is the author most recently of Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth, and teaches at the Catholic University of America.

Luke Burgis is the author of Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life, and The One and the Ninety-Nine: Forging Identity in the Age of Social Contagion, forthcoming from St. Martin's Press, June 2026. He the Founding Director of The Cluny Institute, and serves on the faculty of the business school at The Catholic University of America, where he helps lead the Ciocca Center for Principled Entrepreneurship.

Ben Klutsey is the executive director of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. His commitment to the transformative power of classical liberal ideas is rooted in his upbringing in Ghana, where he witnessed both the dangers of authoritarianism and the life-changing impact of economic freedom. Before becoming executive director, Ben founded the Mercatus Pluralism and Civil Exchange Program, starred in the documentary “Undivide Us,” and built a national network of more than 180 university-based research centers. Today, he continues to champion talent development and empower the next generation of freedom-minded changemakers.

Dana Gioia is an internationally acclaimed poet and writer. He is the former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts and California Poet Laureate.

Jordan Castro is the author of the novels Muscle Man (Catapult, 2025) and The Novelist (Soft Skull, 2022). His essays have appeared in Harper’s, The Paris Review, The Point, and more. He is the deputy director of The Cluny Institute, and serves on the board of the DiTrapano Foundation for Literature and the Arts.