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.

Freya India is the author of the Substack GIRLS, where she writes about the challenges girls and young women face in the modern world, and a staff writer for Jonathan Haidt’s newsletter, After Babel. She has also contributed to publications including The New Statesman, The Spectator, and The Free Press.

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.

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.

Fr. Luke Dysinger, OSB, has taught theology and biomedical ethics at a variety of institutions in southern California, including St. John's Seminary in Camarillo, where he is professor of moral theology, church history, and chair of the department of theology. He received his D.Phil. in Theology from Oxford University.

Jeff Frank is a philosopher of education and a professor at St. Lawrence University. He’s been twice selected for the Owen D. Young Faculty Award by the university’s senior class and publishes widely in popular and scholarly outlets.

Rebecca Lowe is a philosopher with a particular interest in freedom and rights. She is Philosophy Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center, where she is also Director of Emerging Scholars. She is working on two books: Freedom in Utopia and Speaking Freely. She writes a Substack called the ends don’t justify the means, and hosts the Working Definition podcast.

Dr Victoria Trumbull is a philosopher and writer. She received her DPhil in 2025 and her MPhil with distinction in 2021, both from the University of Oxford. Her first book, On the Memory of the Soul, will be published by Bloomsbury in October 2026. Victoria’s work focuses on theories of the human person, soul, or self, and the related questions of consciousness, memory, and time.

Ruxandra Teslo co-leads the Clinical Trial Abundance initiative, a project focused on increasing the pace of medical progress by increasing the number and efficiency of clinical trials. She writes about the intersection of science, culture, and policy at her Substack. She holds a PhD in Genomics from Cambridge University.