Robert Pinsky, only three-term U.S. Poet Laureate. 3QD is always interesting you (and your other contributors) have a fine eye for good writing in both the arts and the sciences, which is a very rare thing indeed.
Rochelle Gurstein, author of The Repeal of Reticence, and frequent contributor to The New Republic, Salmagundi, and American Scholar. 3 Quarks Daily is first rate.
Akeel Bilgrami, Sidney Morgenbesser Chair in Philosophy and Director of the South Asian Institute at Columbia University. It is a great honor to be mentioned in one of my two ONLY portals to the internet and the world, since I do not read newspapers. My discipline, to avoid drowning in information, is not to cruise the web outside of these two points. I tried many sites; yours has CHARM.