Bhaskar Sunkara is the president of The Nation magazine, founder and editorial director of Jacobin , and the author of The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality . Sunkara is a Guardian US columnist who has published more than two hundred articles and essays about politics in outlets like the New York Times , The Nation, the Washington Post , and Le Monde . Mike Beggs is senior lecturer in political economy at the University of Sydney. His research focuses on the history of macroeconomic and monetary thinking and policy. Ben Burgis is a Jacobin columnist, an adjunct philosophy professor at Rutgers University, and the host of the YouTube show and podcast Give Them An Argument . He's the author of several books, most recently Christopher Hitchens: What He Got Right, How He Went Wrong, and Why He Still Matters.