As I have opportunities to take part in various events and to travel to interesting places I will share my opinion and some relevant resources here, I hope to make this YouTube channel a good intersection for sharing:
Stephen Kotkin is a professor of history and international affairs at Princeton University. His work in understanding Russia and the USSR is considered to be seminal. His trilogy on Stalin is being published now.
Jordan Peterson is a professor at the University of Toronto teaching psychology. I found his work on ideological belief interesting.
Richard Taruskin is an American musicologist, music historian, and critic. His writings have frequently taken up social, cultural, and political issues in connection with music.
James Davison Hunter is an American socialogist who is the LaBrosse-Levinson Distinguished Professor of Religion, Culture, and Social Theory at the University of Virginia and the founder and executive director of UVA's Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture.
Timothy Snyder is a professor of history at Yale University and has specialized in Central and Eastern European history.
Slavoj Žižek is a professor at the Institute for Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Ljubliana and international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities of the University of London. He offers an alternative to the typical perspective on western culture and politics.
Professor Christensen teaches at MIT and is noted for his work outside the usual business school's assumptions and use of HBS cases.
George Monbiot is a British writer known for his environmental and political activism. His work can be often found in The Guardian.
Fintan O’Toole is a historical writer, political commentator, and columnist for the Irish Times. Fintan has won both the European Press Prize and the Orwell Prize for his writings on Brexit and his book Brexit: The Politics of Pain.
Sarah Kendzior is a journalist who has specialized in covering and understanding authoritarian regimes.
Peter Pomerantsev is a Soviet-born British journalist, author, and TV producer who is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Institute of Global Affairs at the London School of Economics.
David Harvey is a professor of anthropology and geography a the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. The development of the field of geography as a means of understanding how mankind has developed the world and our culture is fascinating to me and can lead to many insights into the dynamics of urban design.