Matthew B. Crawford is a Senior Fellow at the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and a New York Times bestselling author. He studied physics as an undergraduate, then the history of political thought (Ph.D. University of Chicago). His books include

Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work

The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction

Why We Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road

His shorter writings have appeared in First Things, The Wall Street Journal, The New Atlantis, The Hedgehog Review, Unherd, Compact and at his Substack, Archedelia.

Sir Jonathan Bate is Regents Professor of Literature and Foundation Professor of Environmental Humanities at Arizona State University and a Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University, where he was formerly Provost of Worcester College. He is the author of twenty books, including prizewinning biographies of the writers William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, John Clare and Ted Hughes. He has been on the Board of the Royal Shakespeare Company and edited their editions of Shakespear’s *Complete Works* and *Collaborative Plays*. He co-curated the Shakespeare show in the British Museum that was the centrepiece of the cultural festival during the 2012 London Olympics and *Being Shakespeare*, his one-man play for Simon Callow, premiered at the Edinburgh Festival toured the United Kingdom, had three runs in London’s West End, and played in New York, Chicago and Trieste. He is chair of the Hawthornden Foundation, supporting creative writers with residencies in Brooklyn, Lake Como and a Scottish castle.