The Conversation

George Lakoff is one of the most influential living linguists. He has revolutionized how we think about metaphor's role ... Read more

Dr. Lawrence Torcello is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Micah and I lear... Read more

Gary L. Francione is an animal rights activist, proponent of veganism, Professor of Law and Scholar of Law and Philosoph... Read more

Alexa Clay is an author, economic historian, and director of thought leadership at Ashoka Changemakers. She is co-author... Read more

Charles Hugh Smith is an economics writer, former builder, and general renaissance man who blogs at oftwominds.com, a si... Read more

Mary Mattingly is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York. We learned about her through the Flockhouse Project and traced ... Read more

Rebecca Costa is a self-proclaimed sociobiologist, author of The Watchman's Rattle: A Radical New Theory of Collapse, an... Read more

Jason Kelly Johnson is one of the co-founders of Future Cities Lab, an experimental architecture and design firm in San ... Read more

Cameron Whitten is, in his own words, a "shameless agitator" from Portland, Oregon.  He became politically active during... Read more

Ethan Zuckerman is the Director of MIT's Center for Civic Media, a former fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center, and co-fou... Read more

After more than half a year away from The Conversation, Aengus and Micah return with a panel they gave at South by South... Read more

Among other things, Douglas Rushkoff is a media theorist, author, and documentarian. His books include Life, Inc. and Pr... Read more

Priscilla Grim is one of Occupy Wall Street's organizers, co-founder of the website We Are the 99 Percent, and co-editor... Read more

Chuck Collins directs the Institute of Policy Studies Program on Inequality and the Common Good. He has also co-founder ... Read more

Richard Saul Wurman is a designer, author of over 80 books, and founder of several conferences including TED, WWW, and E... Read more

John Fullerton is the founder of the Capital Institute, a group dedicated to the modest task of rethinking the future of... Read more

From The Conversation's inception, geoengineering—the deliberate manipulation of the climate through technology—has been... Read more

Claire Evans is half of YACHT, a "band, business, and belief system" started by Jona Bechtolt in 2002. In addition to he... Read more

Micah and I have been talking about a new interstitial episode for several weeks but, with the election last night, we d... Read more

Dr. Henry Louis Taylor, Jr. is the Director for the Center for Urban Studies at the University of Buffalo and the Projec... Read more