Dan Edelstein is an eighteenth-century French scholar; his research interests mostly lie at the intersection of literature, history, political thought, and digital humanities. Most recently, Edelstein published a book on the history of revolution (The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin, Princeton University Press. 2025). 

Gwenda-lin Grewal is currently the Onassis Lecturer in Ancient Greek Thought and Language and Assistant Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. She is the author of Fashion | Sense: On Philosophy and Fashion (Bloomsbury, 2022), Thinking of Death in Plato’s Euthydemus: A Close Reading and New Translation (Oxford University Press, 2022), the edited volume, Poetic (Mis)quotations in Plato (Center for Hellenic Studies, 2022), and English translations of Plato’s Phaedo (Center for Hellenic Studies, 2018) and Plato’s Cratylus (New Alexandria, forthcoming). 

James Miller is Professor of Politics and Liberal Studies, and Faculty Director of the MA in Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism at The New School for Social Research. His latest book, Can Democracy Work? A Short History of a Radical Idea from Ancient Athens to Our World, has just been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

James Romm is Professor of Classical Studies, Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures, Literature and Director of the Classical Studies Program at Bard College. His books include Herodotus (in the Yale Hermes series, 1998), Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire (Knopf, 2011), and Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece's Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophic Masterpiece (W.W. Norton, 2025).