PublicScholarship.org gathers expert knowledge made by the scholars themselves — not by journalists or middlemen. Every day, scholars publish remarkable work for general audiences: essays on blogs and Substacks, conversations on podcasts, lectures and explainers on video. This work rarely appears in academic databases, and general search engines bury it under everything else. PublicScholarship.org is the largest index in the world devoted to this material, built to make it discoverable. It is part of the library system at Arizona State University, where it is available to roughly 200,000 students and faculty, and virtually everything we link to is free and outside any paywall.
The index is updated daily, so scholars are constantly weighing in on the issues of the day — making it a remarkable source of commentary on the news, straight from the experts who study it.
Every entry is authored or presented by a credentialed scholar — a researcher with verifiable academic expertise — and written or produced for readers, listeners, and viewers outside the academy. Each record includes the title, author, publication, date, and format, along with a representative excerpt and an AI-generated summary, and a link to the original source.
The index is searched by meaning — semantic search rather than keyword matching. Your query is converted into a semantic representation and matched against the full collection, so a search for “why we trust strangers” surfaces relevant work on social epistemology, game theory, and the psychology of cooperation, even when those entries never use your exact words.
Search is hybrid: alongside meaning, it can also match exact terms. Wrap an author, title, or publication in quotation marks and those words are matched literally, so a search like “Martha Nussbaum” reliably surfaces that author’s work while still drawing on meaning for the rest of your query. Results can be narrowed by format and limited to recently published work.
This is a resource for scholars curious about work beyond their own field, written in language a non-specialist can follow. For teachers gathering materials for their classes. And for anyone who wants to know what experts actually think about the topics of the day — without going through journalists or paying a fee.
Our advisors represent a wide range of disciplines and viewpoints.
N. Ángel PinillosFounder
Professor and Faculty Head of Philosophy, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, Arizona State University
Rutgers University (PhD, Philosophy) · Tufts University (BS, Mathematics)
Dr. Pinillos has written numerous articles in epistemology, philosophy of language, and experimental philosophy. He is the author of Why We Doubt: A Cognitive Account of Our Skeptical Inclinations (Oxford University Press) and has another book under contract with OUP, A Philosophical Theory of Doubt. He is a co-editor of the Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy series. He has given talks in over a dozen countries and has written for the public, including in the New York Times. He grew up in Lima, Peru, and immigrated to the US when he was ten.
William BlinnAdvisor
Chief Technical Officer, Lightkeeper
MIT Sloan School of Management (MBA) · Columbia University (BS, Computer Science)
William Blinn is Chief Technical Officer at Lightkeeper, a financial technology firm. His expertise spans data analysis and financial modeling, leveraging his technical and business education.
Leah PriceAdvisor
Henry Rutgers Distinguished Professor of English, Rutgers University
Yale University (PhD, Comparative Literature) · Harvard University (A.B., Literature)
Dr. Price specializes in book history, the novel, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century culture, and gender. A prolific public scholar, her research has been profiled in The New Yorker, The Economist, and the New York Times Book Review. Prior to Rutgers she was Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English at Harvard, where she was one of the youngest people to receive tenure.
Simon GoldsteinAdvisor
Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Hong Kong
Rutgers University (PhD, Philosophy) · Yale University (BS, Mathematics)
Dr. Goldstein specializes in artificial intelligence, exploring philosophical questions around AI, knowledge, and reasoning.
Robert P. GeorgeAdvisor
McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University
University of Oxford (DPhil, BCL, DCL, DLitt) · Harvard University (MTS, JD) · Swarthmore College (BA)
Dr. George has served as Chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and as a presidential appointee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. He has served on the President's Council on Bioethics and as the U.S. member of UNESCO's World Commission on the Ethics of Science and Technology. A recipient of the U.S. Presidential Citizens Medal and many other honors, he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Veronica ZimmermanAdvisor
Disease Area Director, Oncology, Genentech
Stanford University School of Medicine (PhD, Cancer Biology) · Johns Hopkins University (BS, Molecular and Cellular Biology)
Dr. Zimmerman is Disease Area Director of Oncology at Genentech, based in San Francisco. She was previously Senior Principal Medical Science Director, also at Genentech.
Tyler DesRochesAdvisor
Associate Professor, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University
University of British Columbia (PhD, Philosophy) · Erasmus University Rotterdam (MA, Philosophy and Economics) · University of Victoria (MA, Economics)
Dr. DesRoches is a former President of the International Network for Economic Method. His research focuses on sustainability, human well-being, and economic philosophy, contributing to interdisciplinary policy discussions.
Natalie FabertAdvisor
Licensed Psychologist; Associate Teaching Professor, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Arizona State University; Board Member, Lalich Center
Arizona State University (PhD, Counseling Psychology) · University of California, Santa Barbara (BA)
Dr. Fabert specializes in health psychology, complex trauma, and recovery from cultic abuse. Her work at ASU and the Lalich Center focuses on supporting survivors and advancing education on coercive control.
Susan BlinnAdvisor
Co-Founder, Tinyhood
Tufts University (BS, Computer Science)
Susan Blinn is an entrepreneur and co-founder of Tinyhood, a platform supporting parents with expert-led resources. Her background in computer science informs her work building scalable, user-focused technologies.
Sven KaludzinskiAdvisor
Attorney, Partner, Clean Energy Counsel
USC Gould School of Law (JD) · Columbia University (MA, SIPA) · Tufts University (BS, Economics & International Relations)
Sven Kaludzinski specializes in legal matters within the renewable energy sector, combining regulatory knowledge with financing and corporate structure expertise.
Joshua HerbeckAdvisor
Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
UC Berkeley (PhD, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management) · Tufts University (BS, Biology)
Dr. Herbeck focuses on infectious disease modeling, data analysis, epidemiology, and HIV/TB prevention at the Gates Foundation. His work supports global health initiatives through evidence-based strategies.
J. Hunter PriniskiAdvisor
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles
UCLA (PhD, Computational Cognition) · Arizona State University (BS, Mathematics)
Dr. Priniski's research centers on computational cognition, exploring how computational models can deepen our understanding of human decision-making and learning.
Noah ZimmermanAdvisor
Vice President & General Manager, Next Oncology, Tempus, Inc.
Stanford University (PhD, Bioinformatics) · University of Maryland (BS, Computer Science)
Dr. Zimmerman leads oncology initiatives at Tempus, focusing on precision medicine and bioinformatics. He is also the author of the children's book Toshi Builds Consensus: A Blockchain Primer for Kids (and Grown-ups).
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