Featured Speaker

Matthew B. Crawford is a senior fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia and the New York Times bestselling author of Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work, The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction and Why We Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road. He studied physics at the University of California, and earned a dotorate in political philosophy from the University of Chicago. His shorter writings have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, American Affairs, The New Atlantis, Le Monde, Le Figaro, The Sunday Times of London, and many other publications. To read more about him and his work, go to www.matthewbcrawford.com.