Costică Brădăţan is Paul Whitfield Horn Distinguished Professor of Humanities in the Honors College at Texas Tech University. He is the author and editor of more than a dozen books, most recently, In Praise of Failure. Four Lessons in Humility (2023), and writes regularly for such publications as the New York Times, New York Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, Commonweal, Aeon, and the like.Camil Ungureanu is Serra Húnter Associate Professor of Political Philosophy and Coordinator of the MA in Political Philosophy, Department of Social and Political Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, in Barcelona. He has published extensively in the fields of critical theory, contemporary political thought, art and political imagination, populism, and religious studies.