Statue of the Persian poet Ferdowsi.

Ferdowsi

(c. 935 - c. 1020)

Rupert Younger

Charles Johnson

Photograph of American comedian and film star Harpo Marx.

Harpo Marx

(1888 - 1964)

Black and white photograph of E. B. White sitting at his typewriter with his dachshund.

E.B. White

(1899 - 1985)

Jane J. Mansbridge

William Hogeland

William Hogeland

John Dramani Mahama

Black and white photograph of Emily Dickinson sitting next to a desk.

Emily Dickinson

(1830 - 1886)

John Lewis

(1940 - 2020)

Black and white photograph of William Golding wearing an ascot.

William Golding

(1911 - 1993)

Thomas Frank

Photo of stone Aristotle statue face

Aristotle

(384 BC - 322 BC)

Ozaki Yukio

(1858 - 1954)

Alice Duer Miller

(1874 - 1942)

French politician, physician, and journalist Jean-Paul Marat.

Jean-Paul Marat

(1743 - 1793)

Fourth President of the United States James Madison.

James Madison

(1751 - 1836)

Photograph of German sociologist and political economist Max Weber.

Max Weber

(1864 - 1920)

Claude Ake

(1939 - 1996)

Greek historian and teacher of rhetoric Dionysius of Halicarnassus.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus

(c. 60 BC - c. 7 BC)

Photograph of a young Heinrich Mann

Heinrich Mann

(1871 - 1950)

Adam of Usk

(c. 1352 - c. 1430)

Black-and-white photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. with his right hand lifted

Martin Luther King Jr.

(1929 - 1968)

Lewis Lapham at his desk

Lewis H. Lapham

(1935 - 2024)

Portrait of Swiss-born philosopher, writer, and political theorist Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

(1712 - 1778)

Al-Farabi

(c. 878 - c. 959)

American sociologist and reformer W. E. B. Du Bois.

W.E.B. Du Bois

(1868 - 1963)

Painted portrait of second President of the United States John Adams.

John Adams

(1735 - 1826)

Photograph of Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie

(1835 - 1919)

W.H. Auden

(1907 - 1973)

B. Traven

(1882 - 1969)

Cameo portrait of Charles Brockden Brown

Charles Brockden Brown

(1771 - 1810)

C.L.R. James

(1901 - 1989)

Hilary Mantel

(1952 - 2022)

Lame Deer

(1903 - 1976)

Photograph of African American abolitionist and U.S. diplomat Frederick Douglass.

Frederick Douglass

(c. 1818 - 1895)

English critic and author G. K. Chesterton.

G.K. Chesterton

(1874 - 1936)

Sculpture of Isocrates at the Parc de Versailles

Isocrates

(463 BC - 338 BC)

Edward Korry

(1922 - 2003)

Gustave Le Bon

Gustave Le Bon

(1841 - 1931)

Sisonke Msimang

Sisonke Msimang

Ursula K. Le Guin

(1929 - 2018)

Vladimir Lenin

(1870 - 1924)

Portrait of Alexis de Tocqueville wearing a black suit and standing in front of a chair.

Alexis de Tocqueville

(1805 - 1859)

Photograph of Thomas Geoghegan by Susan Feibus

Thomas Geoghegan

Harry Atwood

(1870 - 1930)

Budd Schulberg

(1914 - 2009)

Dorothy Thompson

(1893 - 1961)

Marino Sanudo

(1466 - 1536)

David Wengrow

David Wengrow

George Gallup

(1901 - 1984)

Chinua Achebe

(1930 - 2013)

Yi-Ling Liu

Black and white photograph of French mystic, philosopher, and activist Simone Weil.

Simone Weil

(1909 - 1943)

French poet and author Christine de Pisan.

Christine de Pisan

(1364 - c. 1430)

Walter Karp

(1934 - 1989)

American newspaper commentator and author Walter Lippmann.

Walter Lippmann

(1889 - 1974)

Mouheb Ben Garoui

Saul Forbes Rae

(1914 - 1999)

Drawing of a woman in a bonnet and wide collar

Angelina Grimké

(1805 - 1879)

Photograph of Arlene W. Saxonhouse by Mika LaVaque-Manty

Arlene W. Saxonhouse

Thomas Hofeller

(1943 - 2018)

Rose Macaulay

(1881 - 1958)

Icelandic historian, poet, and statesman Snorri Sturluson.

Snorri Sturluson

(1179 - 1241)

Ali al-Sistani

Black and white print of English politician, essayist, and historian Thomas Babington Macaulay.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

(1800 - 1859)

Julius Nyerere

(1922 - 1999)

Depiction of Greek philosopher Plato.

Plato

(c. 427 BC - c. 347 BC)

Addie Waites Hunton

(1866 - 1943)

Painting of a woman in drapery holding a lyre

Germaine de Staël

(1766 - 1817)

American poet, journalist, and essayist Walt Whitman.

Walt Whitman

(1819 - 1892)

Black and white photograph of historian and man of letters Henry Adams.

Henry Adams

(1838 - 1918)

Inji Aflatun

(1924 - 1989)

Color photograph of author David Graeber wearing a t-shirt.

David Graeber

(1961 - 2020)

Frank Partnoy

Gerrard Winstanley

(1609 - 1676)

German poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht.

Bertolt Brecht

(1898 - 1956)