Lewis Mumford

(1895 - 1990)

Wilhelm Reich

(1897 - 1957)

Saint Albertus Magnus

(c. 1200 - 1280)

Paul Lafargue

(1842 - 1911)

Rebecca Solnit

Ida M. Tarbell

(1857 - 1944)

Wassily Kandinsky

(1866 - 1944)

Freeman Dyson

(1923 - 2020)

Jose Canseco

Harry M. Caudill

(1922 - 1990)

American psychologist and philosopher William James.

William James

(1842 - 1910)

Persian philosopher and scientist Avicenna.

Avicenna

(980 - 1037)

Painting of Benjamin Franklin reading a batch of papers next to a classical bust.

Benjamin Franklin

(1706 - 1790)

William Ophuls

Frances Willard

(1839 - 1898)

Arianne Shahvisi

Edward Hungerford

(1875 - 1948)

Solomon Northup

(c. 1807 - c. 1857)

Italian artist, engineer, and scientist Leonardo da Vinci.

Leonardo da Vinci

(1452 - 1519)

Bernardino de Sahagún

Bernardino de Sahagún

(c. 1500 - c. 1590)

Byzantine historian and daughter of the emperor Anna Comnena.

Anna Comnena

(1083 - c. 1153)

English novelist, essayist, and critic George Orwell.

George Orwell

(1903 - 1950)

Erwin Schrödinger

(1887 - 1961)

Al-Masudi

(c. 893 - c. 956)

Ibn Miskawayh

(c. 930 - 1030)

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

(1744 - 1829)

Giacomo Ciamician

(1857 - 1922)

William Stanley Jevons

(1835 - 1882)

Angelo Mosso

(1846 - 1910)

English writer Geoffrey Chaucer.

Geoffrey Chaucer

(c. 1342 - 1400)

Procopius

(c. 490 - c. 562)

Rabih Alameddine

Sun Tzu

(c. 544 BC - c. 496 BC)

Marc Da Costa

Painted portrait of German naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt.

Alexander von Humboldt

(1769 - 1859)

Ivan Illich

(1926 - 2002)

American novelist John Dos Passos.

John Dos Passos

(1896 - 1970)

Tom Roston

Oil painting portrair Michel de Montaigne in red robes and white collar

Michel de Montaigne

(1533 - 1592)

Mira Bai

(c. 1498 - c. 1547)

Carl Sagan

(1934 - 1996)

J. Robert Oppenheimer

(1904 - 1967)

Simon Reynolds

William Blake

(1757 - 1827)

Alexander Hamilton

(1755 - 1804)

Tanure Ojaide

Black and white photograph of Mao Zedong with raised arm.

Mao Zedong

(1893 - 1976)

Athanasius Kircher

(1601 - 1680)

Loudon Wainwright Jr.

(1924 - 1988)

Nikola Tesla

(1856 - 1943)

Theophrastus

(c. 372 BC - c. 287 BC)

Donald Antrim

Eliza Jane Cate

(1812 - 1884)

LNG Allies

Polish-born French physicist Marie Curie.

Marie Curie

(1867 - 1934)

Ken Saro-Wiwa

(1941 - 1995)

Black and white photograph of Ryszard Kapuściński holding a book.

Ryszard Kapuściński

(1932 - 2007)

Richard Cohen. Photograph by Christopher Dickey

Richard Cohen

Émilie du Châtelet

(1706 - 1749)

Lewis Lapham at his desk

Lewis H. Lapham

Harriet Monroe

(1860 - 1936)

Maria

Maria Mitchell

(1818 - 1889)

Engraving of a bust of Lucretius.

Lucretius

(c. 95 BC - c. 50 BC)

Akhenaten

(c. 1363 BC - 1336 BC)

Vladimir Mayakovsky

(1893 - 1930)

Ninth-century painting of Chinese poet Ruan Ji

Ruan Ji

(210 - 263)

B. Traven

(c. 1890 - 1969)

Joan Didion

(1934 - 2021)

Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi.

Mahatma Gandhi

(1869 - 1948)

Thea Riofrancos

Alphonse Esquiros

(1812 - 1876)

Depiction of Greek philosopher Plato.

Plato

(c. 427 BC - c. 347 BC)

Jocelin of Brakelond

(c. 1150 - c. 1211)

Moderata Fonte

(1555 - 1592)

Serge Voronoff

(c. 1866 - 1951)

Black and white photograph of American writer James Agee.

James Agee

(1909 - 1955)

Masuji Ibuse

(1898 - 1993)

Edward Teller

(1908 - 2003)

Sarah Ruhl

Ibn Khaldun

(1332 - 1406)

Black and white image of Greek biographer and writer Plutarch.

Plutarch

(46 - c. 120)

Yuan Liaofan

(c. 1533 - c. 1606)

Essad Bey

(1905 - 1942)

Pieter van Musschenbroek

(1692 - 1761)

American novelist Upton Sinclair.

Upton Sinclair

(1878 - 1968)

Depiction of Chinese philosopher Mozi.

Mozi

(c. 470 BC - c. 391 BC)

Giovanni Alfonso Borelli

(1608 - 1679)

Samuel Johnson

(1709 - 1784)

Photograph of journalist Louis Fischer.

Louis Fischer

(1896 - 1970)

Mary Inman

(1894 - 1985)

Kenzaburo Oe

(1935 - 2023)

Giovanni Aldini

(1762 - 1834)

Engraving of Pliny the Elder.

Pliny the Elder

(23 - 79)

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

Emily Dickinson

(1830 - 1886)

Portrait bust of Greek dramatist Aeschylus.

Aeschylus

(c. 525 BC - 456 BC)

Abu Mashar

(787 - 886)

Margaret Mead

(1901 - 1978)

Black and white photograph of a young H.G. Wells with a mustache.

H.G. Wells

(1866 - 1946)

Kim Stanley Robinson