Steve Fast Creators & Guests

Kenneth C. Davis is an American historian, writer, and author of the book More Deadly Than War.

Gilbert M. Gaul is an American journalist. He has won two Pulitzer Prizes and been a finalist for three others.

Michael A. Waldman is president of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, a nonpartisan law and policy institute.

Bart Denton Ehrman is a writer and has written & edited 30 books, including three college textbooks. He has also authored six New York Times bestsellers. He is currently the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Tim Harford is an economist and journalist.

Dr. Beatrice Dorothy "Bee" Wilson is a writer, journalist and author whose work links food with wider themes of health, psychology and history. She also writes the "Table Talk" column for The Wall Street Journal.Wilson began her career as a research fellow at Cambridge University. She then became a journalist, reporting on food and other topics, such as film, biography, music and history. In 1998 she became the weekly food critic for the New Statesman. She then went on to write the "Kitchen Thinker" column in The Sunday Telegraph's "Stella" magazine for twelve years. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Times Literary Supplement, The New Yorker, the London Review of Books. Her first book, "The Hive: the Story of the Honeybee and Us," was published in 2005. Wilson received her B.A. in History from Cambridge University, her M.A. in Political Science the University of Pennsylvania, and her Ph.D. from Cambridge University.

Dave Barry is an American author and columnist who wrote a nationally syndicated humor column for the Miami Herald from 1983 to 2005. He has also written numerous books of humor and parody, as well as comic novels.

Bryan Burrough is an author and correspondent for Vanity Fair.

Ralph Nader is a political activist, author, lecturer, and attorney. He is best known for his advocacy for consumer protection, environmentalism, and government reform. His first book, "Unsafe at Any Speed," was published in 1965 and established his reputation as a consumer advocate. Following the publication of Unsafe at Any Speed, Nader led a group of volunteer law students in an investigation of the Federal Trade Commission, which led to the overhaul and reform of the FTC. Nader established a number of advocacy and watchdog groups including the Public Interest Research Group, the Center for Auto Safety, and Public Citizen.Nader ran for President of the United States as an independent in 2000, 2004, and 2008.Nader is the author or co-author of more than 40 books. He was the subject of a documentary film, "An Unreasonable Man," which was released in 2006.Nader was educated at Princeton and Harvard.

Greg Milner is a copywriter, editor, writer, and author of Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds.

Adam Grant is a psychologist and author.

Adam Alter is a marketing author, consumer behavior consultant, and Professor of Marketing at NYU Stern School of Business.

David Daley is the publisher of the Connecticut Mirror and the digital media fellow for the Wilson Center for Humanities and the Arts and the Grady School of Journalism at the University of Georgia.Daley is known for his book, "Ratf**ked: The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America’s Democracy," on the politics of gerrymandering.Daley was the editor-in-chief of Salon, an editor at the Louisville Courier-Journal, Details magazine and a reporter and editor at the Hartford Courant. His journalism has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, Slate, the Washington Post, and New York magazine.Daley was raised in South Windsor. He received his B.A. from Boston College and his M.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Tom Vanderbilt is a journalist, blogger, and author of the best-selling book Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do.

Bethany McLean is a journalist and contributing editor for Vanity Fair magazine.

Roberta Kaplan is a lawyer and attorney.

Lydia V. Pyne is a writer, historian, and author of "Genuine Fakes: How Phony Things Teach Us About Real Stuff."

Yudhijit Bhattacharjee is a contributing writer at National Geographic, New York Times bestselling author of The Spy Who Couldn't Spell, and contributor to The New Yorker and NYT Magazine.

Jon Ronson is a Welsh journalist and documentary filmmaker whose works include The Men Who Stare at Goats (2004) and The Psychopath Test (2011). He has been described as a gonzo journalist, becoming a faux-naïf character in his stories.