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638 thinkers
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Webb Miller
Foreign correspondent who reported the Dharasana salt raid and British force against nonviolent protests.
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Webb Miller
Foreign correspondent who reported the Dharasana salt raid and British force against nonviolent protests.
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Will Graves
Associated Press writer covering Simone Biles's Tokyo withdrawal and beam return.
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Will Graves
Associated Press writer covering Simone Biles's Tokyo withdrawal and beam return.
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William H McNeill
Historian of plagues, populations, and macro-social cohesion—how disease and mobility reshape collective life.
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William H McNeill
Historian of plagues, populations, and macro-social cohesion—how disease and mobility reshape collective life.
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William H. Meckling
Economists of agency theory, shareholder primacy, and corporate governance as contracting problem.
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William H. Meckling
Economists of agency theory, shareholder primacy, and corporate governance as contracting problem.
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William P. Jones
Historian of the March on Washington who recovers the jobs-and-freedom coalition behind the landmark day.
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William P. Jones
Historian of the March on Washington who recovers the jobs-and-freedom coalition behind the landmark day.
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William Ury
Negotiation theorists of principled bargaining, interests versus positions, and Getting to Yes.
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William Ury
Negotiation theorists of principled bargaining, interests versus positions, and Getting to Yes.
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William W. Keep
Philosophers analyzing infinite regresses, justification, and foundational problems in knowledge claims.
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William W. Keep
Philosophers analyzing infinite regresses, justification, and foundational problems in knowledge claims.
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Winston W Royce
Software engineer who articulated phased waterfall development—and later cautioned against rigid sequential process.
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Winston W Royce
Software engineer who articulated phased waterfall development—and later cautioned against rigid sequential process.
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Wolfgang Schivelbusch
Cultural historian of railway travel and the industrialization of space and time.
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Wolfgang Schivelbusch
Cultural historian of railway travel and the industrialization of space and time.
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World Athletics
World governing body for athletics commemorating the 1968 Smith–Carlos podium protest.
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World Athletics
World governing body for athletics commemorating the 1968 Smith–Carlos podium protest.
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World Bank
Multilateral development institution publishing economic, climate, and governance data and policy reports.
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World Bank
Multilateral development institution publishing economic, climate, and governance data and policy reports.
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Yuval Levin
Political theorist of institutional decay, subsidiarity, and how mediating structures sustain democratic life.
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Yuval Levin
Political theorist of institutional decay, subsidiarity, and how mediating structures sustain democratic life.
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Zeynep Tufekci
Sociologist of technology, protest, and how digital networks change mobilization, visibility, and collective action.
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Zeynep Tufekci
Sociologist of technology, protest, and how digital networks change mobilization, visibility, and collective action.
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Zygmunt Bauman
Sociologist of liquid modernity—how mobility, fragmentation, and insecurity reshape identity, community, and moral obligation.
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Zygmunt Bauman
Sociologist of liquid modernity—how mobility, fragmentation, and insecurity reshape identity, community, and moral obligation.