Who is the underrated independent author today in 2025 like Peter Zeihan  was in 2016?

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top of mind brian potter (construction physics) and dwarkesh patel

not the same as they cover very different beats than Zeihan but if I had to draft a list of up and coming independent authors/new public intellectuals I'm bullish on: Coleman Hughes (race/politics), Konstantin Kisin (europe/western civ), Haviv Rettig Gur (middle east), Joshua Citarella (hard leftist insight) + random people Dwarkesh/Mike Solana/Tyler Cowen find for their pods. I think discovery of new talent has actually slowed down a bit as the podcast sphere has matured in the same way the blog sphere did in the 2010s. am hungry for new/younger voices but haven't found many lately.

Tanner Greer comes to mind but his takes feel more ambiguous, less punchy than Zeihan’s.

Funny you bring up Zeihan because the walk and talk videos lately have been reminding me of him.

I like Arvind & Sayash for being critical of AI boosters while not being overly bearish: https://www.aisnakeoil.com/