How to Save Science

Zeynep Pamuk is Associate Professor in Contemporary Political Theory at the University of Oxford and Professorial Fellow of Nuffield College. She is author of Politics and Expertise: How to Use Science in a Democratic Society.

China Miéville is the multi-award-winning author of many works of fiction and non-fiction. His fiction includes The City and the City, Embassytown and This Census-Taker. He has won the Hugo, World Fantasy, and Arthur C. Clarke awards. His non-fiction includes the photo-illustrated essay London’s Overthrow, Between Equal Rights, a study of international law, and the narrative history of the Russian Revolution, October. He has written for various publications, including the New York Times, Guardian, Conjunctions and Granta, and he is a founding editor of Salvage. His latest novel, The Rouse, will be published in September 2026.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University and a fellow at the Climate and Community Institute. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book Elite Capture, a contributor to Greta Thunberg’s The Climate Book, and a past recipient of a Marguerite Casey Freedom Scholar fellowship. Táíwò’s public philosophy, including articles exploring intersections of climate justice and colonialism, has been featured in The Guardian, The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Nation, Boston Review, Dissent, Al Jazeera, Foreign Policy, Hammer & Hope (where he is a member of the Editorial Team). His writings have been translated into Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Italian, and Korean, among other languages.

Lorna Finlayson, a columnist at Boston Review, teaches political philosophy at the University of Essex. She is author of The Political Is Political and An Introduction to Feminism.

Omer Bartov is Dean’s Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University. His latest book is Israel: What Went Wrong?.