About NPA

We stand transparent about our motivations: we are champions of liberal values and Enlightenment Rationalism. Reason and liberty are paramount—whether threatened by tyranny in places like China or elsewhere—because they are essential to human dignity and prosperity. The Enlightenment, with its emphasis on error-correction, is the philosophical project that has cultivated the wealth and freedom of the modern world. The West has been a custodian of this tradition of criticism, producing societies full of rapid, stable, and genuine progress. The clearer people become on this connection, the more they’ll recognize that these principles are what enable our civilization to be freer, safer, and more prosperous. This is the set of ideas we’re committed to spreading.

~ Reid Nicewonder (Inspired by The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch)

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Peter Boghossian

Peter Boghossian is the Executive Director of National Progress Alliance and Founding Faculty Advisor at the University of Austin. Peter has a teaching pedigree spanning more than 25 years that focuses on the Socratic method, scientific skepticism, and critical thinking. Peter’s doctoral dissertation explored increasing the moral reasoning of prison inmates and aiding their desistance to crime. His most recent book is How to Have Impossible Conversations, which has been translated into ten languages.

His writing can be found in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, Time Magazine, National Review, and elsewhere. Peter has also published extensively across multiple domains of thought. His work is centered on bringing the tools of professional philosophers to a wide variety of contexts and helping people think through what seem to be intractable problems.

About NPA

Peter Boghossian​

Peter Boghossian