The authors and academics fighting cancel culture

The following is a list of signatories to an open letter, set to appear in the October issue of Harper’s Magazine, warning against rising ‘illiberalism’

Elliot Ackerman

Saladin Ambar, rutgers university Martin Amis

Anne Applebaum

Marie Arana, author

Margaret Atwood

John Banville

Mia Bay, historian

Louis Begley, writer roger Berkowitz, Bard College Paul Berman, writer

Sheri Berman, Barnard College reginald dwayne Betts, poet

Neil Blair, agent david W. Blight, yale university Jennifer Finney Boylan, author david Bromwich david Brooks, columnist

Ian Buruma, Bard College

Lea Carpenter

Noam Chomsky, MIT (emeritus) Nicholas A. Christakis, yale university roger Cohen, writer

Ambassador Frances d. Cook, ret. drucilla Cornell, Founder, ubuntu Project

Kamel daoud

Meghan daum, writer

Gerald Early, Washington university-st. Louis

Jeffrey Eugenides, writer dexter Filkins

Federico Finchelstein, The New School

Caitlin Flanagan richard T. Ford, Stanford Law School

Kmele Foster david Frum, journalist

Francis Fukuyama, Stanford university

Atul Gawande, harvard university Todd Gitlin, Columbia university Kim Ghattas

Malcolm Gladwell

Michelle Goldberg, columnist rebecca Goldstein, writer

Anthony Grafton, Princeton university david Greenberg, rutgers university

Linda Greenhouse rinne B. Groff, playwright

Sarah haider, activist

Jonathan haidt, Nyu-stern roya hakakian, writer

Shadi hamid, Brookings Institution Jeet heer, The Nation

Katie herzog, podcast host Susannah heschel, dartmouth College

Adam hochschild, author

Arlie russell hochschild, author Eva hoffman, writer

Coleman hughes, writer/ Manhattan Institute hussein Ibish, Arab Gulf States Institute

Michael Ignatieff

Zaid Jilani, journalist

Bill T. Jones, New york Live Arts Wendy Kaminer, writer

Matthew Karp, Princeton university

Garry Kasparov, renew democracy Initiative daniel Kehlmann, writer randall Kennedy

Khaled Khalifa, writer

Parag Khanna, author

Laura Kipnis, Northwestern university

Frances Kissling, Center for health, Ethics, Social Policy Enrique Krauze, historian Anthony Kronman, yale university

Joy Ladin, yeshiva university Nicholas Lemann, Columbia university

Mark Lilla, Columbia university Susie Linfield, New york university damon Linker, writer dahlia Lithwick, Slate

Steven Lukes, New york university John r. Macarthur, publisher, writer

Susan Madrak, writer

Phoebe Maltz Bovy, writer

Greil Marcus

Wynton Marsalis, Jazz at Lincoln Center

Kati Marton, author debra Mashek, scholar deirdre Mccloskey, university of Illinois at Chicago

John Mcwhorter, Columbia university uday Mehta, City university of New york

Andrew Moravcsik, Princeton university yascha Mounk, Persuasion

Samuel Moyn, yale university Meera Nanda, writer and teacher Cary Nelson, university of Illinois at urbana-champaign

Olivia Nuzzi, New york Magazine Mark Oppenheimer, yale university dael Orlandersmith, writer/ performer

George Packer

Nell Irvin Painter, Princeton university (emerita)

Greg Pardlo, rutgers university, Camden

Orlando Patterson, harvard university

Steven Pinker, harvard university Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Katha Pollitt, writer

Claire Bond Potter, The New School

Taufiq rahim, New America Foundation

Zia haider rahman, writer Jennifer ratner-rosenhagen, university of Wisconsin

Jonathan rauch, Brookings Institution/the Atlantic

Neil roberts, political theorist Melvin rogers, Brown university Kat rosenfield, writer

Loretta J. ross, Smith College

J.K. rowling

Salman rushdie, New york university

Karim Sadjadpour, Carnegie Endowment daryl Michael Scott, howard university diana Senechal, teacher and writer

Jennifer Senior, columnist

Judith Shulevitz, writer

Jesse Singal, journalist Anne-marie Slaughter

Andrew Solomon, writer deborah Solomon, critic and biographer

Allison Stanger, Middlebury College

Paul Starr, American Prospect/ Princeton university

Wendell Steavenson, writer

Gloria Steinem, writer and activist

Nadine Strossen, New york Law School ronald S. Sullivan Jr., harvard Law School

Kian Tajbakhsh, Columbia university

Zephyr Teachout, Fordham university

Cynthia Tucker, university of South Alabama

Adaner usmani, harvard university

Chloe Valdary

Lucía Martínez Valdivia, reed College helen Vendler, harvard university

Judy B. Walzer

Michael Walzer

Eric K. Washington, historian Caroline Weber, historian randi Weingarten, American Federation of Teachers

Bari Weiss

Sean Wilentz, Princeton university

Garry Wills

Thomas Chatterton Williams, writer robert F. Worth, journalist and author

Molly Worthen, university of North Carolina at Chapel hill Matthew yglesias

Emily yoffe, journalist

Cathy young, journalist

Fareed Zakaria

A comprehensive group of writers and academics has co-signed an open letter to appear in the October issue of Harper’s Magazine. Some of those to sign are: top row, from left — author Margaret Atwood, Canadian academic Michael Ignatieff, writer and activist Gloria Steinem, Harvard University’s Steven Pinker; bottom row, from left — author/essayist Malcolm Gladwell, author J.K. Rowling, author Salman Rushdie and journalist David Frum.