Thinking Allowed Creators & Guests

Laurence John Taylor is an English sociologist and radio presenter, he is also host of Thinking Allowed Podcast.

Dr. Andrew Bomback, MD, MPH, is a nephrologist who specializes in glomerular diseases and resistant hypertension. Dr. Bomback received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and his medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He completed residency in Internal Medicine and fellowships in Nephrology and Clinical Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was the Doc J. Thurston III Fellow in Nephrology and Hypertension. In 2009, he returned to Columbia University as an associate at the Center for Glomerular Diseases and is currently Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center.

Carolyn Chen is an author and Associate Professor in The Department of Ethnic Studies at Berkeley University.

Shani Orgad is an Associate Professor of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Annelien de Dijn is a Historian, Professor of Modern Political History at Utrecht University, and the author of French Political Thought from Montesquieu to Tocqueville.

Adam Tooze is a British historian, Professor at Columbia University, and Director of the European Institute.

Tyler Stovall is an author.

Dr. Edward Glaeser is an economist.

Neil Vallelly is a Researcher at Economic and Social Research Aotearoa.

Dr. Luke de Noronha is a researcher and writer whose work focuses on immigration control, racism and deportation. Currently, he is a lecturer in Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies at University College London and is on the editorial board for the Sociological Review.de Noronha's work has appeared in the Guardian, Verso blogs, VICE, Red Pepper, Open Democracy, The New Humanist, and Ceasefire Magazine. He co-authored the book "Empire’s End Game: Racism and the British State," published in 2021, and "Against Borders: The Case for Abolition, published in 2022. He has also produced a podcast with deported people in Jamaica, "Deportation Discs."de Noronha received his B.Sc. in Sociology from the University of Bristol, his M.Sc. in Migration Studies and his D.Phil. in Anthropology from the University of Oxford.

Matthew Desmond is a sociologist and Professor in the Department of Sociology at Princeton University.

Dan Hancox is a freelance culture critic who writes about music, politics, gentrification, cities, protest, public space, food, multicultures, social movements, and Spain. He has also edited for The Guardian, New Humanist, openDemocracy and New Statesman, and has helped develop podcasts, TV and radio documentaries.Hancox's work has appeared in Guardian, Observer, Vice, the New York Times, Frieze, and The New Statesman. His first book, "The Village Against The World," was published in 2013. His second book, "Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime," was published in 2018.

Ruben Andersson is an anthropologist, writer, associate professor in the Department of International Development, University of Oxford and author of the book, No Go World.

Dr. Daniel Selim Hamermesh is an economist who specializes in labor economics. Currently, he is a Professor of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor.Previously, Hamermesh was a professor of economics at Royal Holloway, University of London and Michigan State University. He was a Distinguished Scholar at Barnard College.Hamermesh has published many academic articles. His first book, "Labor Demand," was published in 1993. He has published both textbooks and popular books.Hamermesh received his A.B. from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. from Yale University.

Dr. Celine-Marie Pascale is an author, and sociologist at American University.