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.

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