House of Strauss Creators & Guests

Katie Herzog is a freelance journalist and co-host of the Blocked and Reported Podcast.

Jesse Singal is a Brooklyn-based journalist, currently writing a book about social science, social justice, and the replication crisis for Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Contributing writer at New York Magazine, where he was previously editor of the behavioral-science vertical Science of Us, and then a writer-at-large covering everything from social science to politics to weird internet lingo involving staple crops.

Freddie deBoer is an author, writer, editor, and ghostwriter.

Bryan Curtis is a sports journalist. Currently, he is editor-at-large for The Ringer.Prior to The Ringer, Curtis wrote for Grantland, edited for The Daily Beast, wrote a column for Play: The New York Times Sports Magazine, wrote for Slate Magazine, and reported for The New Republic.

Rob Henderson is a Ph.D. student & Gates Cambridge scholar at the University of Cambridge and a veteran of the U.S. Air Force.

Shadi Hamid is an author, senior fellow in Brookings Institution, and contributing writer at The Atlantic.

Lee Fang is a journalist. He is currently an investigative reporter at The Intercept. Previously, he was a reporting fellow at The Nation Institute and a contributing writer at The Nation. He was also a writer the Republic Report and he began his career as an investigative blogger for ThinkProgress.Fang was raised in Prince George’s County, Maryland. He received his B.A. in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland in 2009.

Matthew Taibbi is an author and journalist.

Eli Jon Lake is a journalist, former senior national security correspondent for The Daily Beast and Newsweek, and columnist for the Bloomberg View.

Tom Haberstroh is an analyst and reporter Meadowlark Media.