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    Jan 27, 2020 5 minutes

    Maggie Jackson

    Maggie Jackson is an award-winning social critic and author. Her articles have appeared in publications worldwide,including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, and Business Week. Jackson won the Media Award from the Work-Life Council of the Conference Board and is a graduate of Yale University and the London School of Economics. She is the author of Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age.

    Nigel Warburton

    Nigel Warburton is a freelance philosopher, podcaster, writer, and the Editor-at-large of . Described as “one of the most-read popular philosophers of our time”, his books include , , and . The interviewer for the podcast, which has been downloaded over 20 million times, Warburton is one of the founding faculty of the LIS.

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