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Lawrence M. Krauss is a renowned theoretical physicist and bestselling author. He is President of The Origins Project Foundation, which sponsors these travel adventures. A former professor at Yale, Case Western Reserve, and Arizona State University, he is the author of over 500 scientific publications and 12 books, including the international bestseller A Universe from Nothing. He has received numerous international awards for his research and writing, and is one of the few scientists to have been awarded the highest awards from all three US physics societies.

Solveig Lucia Gold is a writer, a scholar of ancient philosophy, a mother, and a native New Yorker. She is also the Senior Fellow in Education and Society at the American Council of Trustees and Alumni. She holds an AB in Classics from Princeton and both an MPhil and PhD in Classics from the University of Cambridge. Profiled in the New York Times, she has published articles in such venues as City Journal, Classical Quarterly, First Things, The Free Press, the New Criterion, the Spectator World, and the Wall Street Journal; is a founding editor of the popular online Classics journal Antigone; and is co-author, with her grandfather, Robert W. Jenson, of Conversations with Poppi: An Eight-Year-Old and Her Theologian Grandfather Trade Questions.

A linguist by training, with degrees from Yale, Oxford, and Harvard, Joshua T. Katz was once the Cotsen Professor in the Humanities and a professor of Classics at Princeton University; since 2022, he has been a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (Washington, D.C.), where he focuses on higher education, language and culture, the classical tradition, and the humanities in the broadest sense. Probably the only comparative philologist employed at a think tank anywhere, Katz is the author of hundreds of articles on the languages, literatures, and cultures of the ancient, medieval, and modern world. Among his major interests are the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European, Archaic Greek poetry, the history and practice of wordplay, and etymology. Besides many national and international awards for his scholarship and his teaching, he has won a slew of prizes in recent years for his defense of free speech and academic freedom.