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is professor emeritus of media and communication at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Her books include Walter Lippmann (2012) and Stealth Communications (2016). is a research associate ...

is an editor at Aeon. He lives in New York.

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is professor of psychology at the University of Waterloo in Canada, and a cognitive neuroscientist. He is the author, with John Eastwood, of Out of My Skull: The Psychology of Boredom (2020). is ...

is a DPhil student in history at the University of Oxford. He hosts the podcast In Conversation with Jack Jacobs.