Thinking in Dark Times

Professor Glyn Davis AC is Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. He is a political scientist who served as Vice-Chancellor at the University of Melbourne. His books include The Australian Idea of a University, The Republic of Learning and On Life's Lottery. 

Samantha Rose Hill is the author of two books: Hannah Arendt and Hannah Arendt’s Poems (to be released 2023). She regularly contributes to publications including Los Angeles Review of Books, Contemporary Political Theory and The South Atlantic Quarterly. She is currently writing a book on loneliness.

Peter Singer, professor of bioethics at Princeton University, has written, co-authored, edited or co-edited more than 40 books, including Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, The Life You Can Save, and Ethics in the Real World. He is the founder of the charity The Life You Can Save. In 2021 he was awarded the $1 million Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture, which he donated to non-profit organisations working for the causes he supports.