Authors who write for popular audiences that I’d recommend. Whether you disagree with their point of view or not, they make you think.

History

Tom Holland

Niall Ferguson

Ronald Syme

Philosophy

Russell Kirk

Roger Scruton

Alasdair Macintyre

Biography

James Boswell

Ron Chernow

Jean Edward-Smith

Science, Math & Nature

Neil Shubin

Judea Pearl

Jordan Ellenberg

Basil Mahon

Robert MacFarlane

Richard Feynman