Michael ShellenbergerMichael Shellenberger is the nationally bestselling author of Apocalypse Never and San Fransicko, Founder of Public.News, and CBR Chair of Politics, Censorship, and Free Speech at the University of Austin. Michael has broken majo stories, including on Covid’s origin, homelessness, and the Twitter Files, for which he won the 2023 Dao Award for Journalism. He is a Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment” and Green Book Award Winner. And Michael is the founder and president of Civilization, an independent, nonpartisan research organization.