Francis Fukuyama is the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Director of Stanford’s Ford Dorsey Master’s in International Policy. One of the most influential political thinkers of his generation, he is best known for his 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man. His forthcoming memoir is In the Realm of the Last Man. Dr. Fukuyama has held distinguished appointments at Johns Hopkins, George Mason University, the RAND Corporation, and the U.S. Department of State’s Policy Planning Staff. His articles can be read at Persuasion, and his podcast is Frankly Fukuyama.

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Rahm I. Emanuel most recently served as the United States Ambassador to Japan. Previously, he was the 55th Mayor of the City of Chicago, a position he held until May 2019. Prior to becoming Mayor, from November 2008 until October 2010, Emanuel served as President Barack Obama’s Chief of Staff. Before serving as Chief of Staff, Emanuel was elected four times as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois’s 5th Congressional District (2002-2008). From 1993 to 1998, Ambassador Emanuel was a key member of President Bill Clinton’s administration, rising to serve as Senior Advisor to the President for Policy and Politics.

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Tristan Harris, described by The Atlantic as “the closest thing Silicon Valley has to a conscience,” is a technology ethicist and co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, a nonprofit dedicated to aligning technology with humanity’s best interests. Tristan gained international recognition when he was featured in the Emmy-winning Netflix documentary, The Social Dilemma, seen by over 150 million people in 190 countries and 30 languages. Named to the TIME100 AI list in 2023, Tristan is “a tech leader committed to ensuring that we get this generation of AI right, because we simply can’t afford to get it wrong.” Most recently, Tristan is featured in The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist, a new documentary from Focus Features in theaters March 27, 2026.

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Will MacAskill is an associate professor of moral philosophy at Oxford University, and author of Doing Good Better, Moral Uncertainty and What We Owe The Future. He cofounded the nonprofits 80,000 Hours, Centre for Effective Altruism, and Giving What We Can, and helped to launch the effective altruism movement, which encourages people to use their time and money to support the projects that are most effectively making the world a better place.

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Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH, is the Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University. His work is in the fields of network science and biosocial science. He directs the Human Nature Lab and is the Co-Director of the Yale Institute for Network Science. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2006; the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2010; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017; and the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.

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Just a reminder — Sam is recording live today, Tuesday, March 17, at 1pm ET, right here on Substack.

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Matt Mahan is the Mayor of San Jose and a candidate for Governor of California. Raised in Watsonville and a Harvard graduate, he began his career in the Peace Corps before teaching on San Jose’s East Side. He went on to lead two civic tech startups, Causes and Brigade, focused on civic engagement and nonprofit support.

Elected Mayor in 2022, Mahan has made homelessness and public safety his central priorities. Under his leadership, San Jose reduced unsheltered homelessness by nearly a third through the largest expansion of emergency shelter on the West Coast, and earned recognition as the safest big city in America. He has also worked to accelerate housing development by cutting permitting costs and timelines, and took on utility companies to lower energy costs for residents. In 2024, he was re-elected with 87% of the vote and helped lead the passage of Proposition 36, a statewide ballot measure enabling mandated treatment for repeat offenders in cases involving retail theft, homelessness, and addiction. He announced his run for California governor in January 2026.

Website: https://mahanforcalifornia.com

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The live recording experiment went well, so we’re doing it again. We’ll be recording the next episode of More From Sam live on Tuesday, March 17, at 1pm ET, right here on Substack.

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Rob Reid is a venture capitalist, sci-fi author, science writer, and podcaster; he was also a long-time tech entrepreneur. Rob is the Managing Director at Resilience Reserve, a venture fund he runs with Chris Anderson of the TED Conference. Resilience backs companies that are making the world more resilient in some important way. Rob’s After On podcast features conversations with world-class thinkers, founders, and scientists on subjects including synthetic biology, generative and super AI, neuroscience, astrophysics, and oceanography. His science fiction novels include the New York Times bestseller Year Zero and After On. As an entrepreneur, Rob founded and ran Listen.com, which created the Rhapsody music service. He speaks solid Arabic with a thick Egyptian accent.

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Garry Kasparov is the founder and chairman of the Renew Democracy Initiative, which publishes The Next Move on Substack. He became the youngest World Chess Champion in 1985. He is a pro-democracy activist and among Vladimir Putin’s most prominent opponents. The Russian regime has designated Garry as a terrorist and issued a warrant for his arrest.

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Jonah Goldberg is the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Dispatch. A Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, Goldberg is also a Los Angeles Times columnist, CNN contributor, and three-time bestselling author.

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Sarah Longwell is the publisher of The Bulwark, which she helped found in 2019, and hosts the podcast The Focus Group, which is in its sixth season. She is a recognized expert in qualitative research, having hosted hundreds of focus groups and talked to thousands of voters from across the country and the political spectrum. In addition to The Bulwark, Sarah’s work has been featured on PBS NewsHour, CNN, MSNBC, and elsewhere.

Tim Miller is the host of The Bulwark Podcast and an MSNBC political analyst. He is the author of Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell. Tim has worked on campaigns for John McCain, Mitt Romney, and Jeb Bush.

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