Two authors whose writing and thinking and way of exploring the world I love:
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Alan Jacobs: this man is cool. As someone else has said, he seems to record almost every thought he thinks! Not actually. He’s just a remarkable blogger who reguarly chimes in with interesting things to say about interesting things in the world - things like the value in reading old books; anarchist political philosophy; the history of journalism; and the ethics and ‘ecology’ of technology. I’ve read only two of his actual books: How to Think and Breaking Bread with the Dead. I’d like to re-read the latter at some point as inspiration for my own reading of dead people’s work.
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Dale C. Alison Jr.: Another cool human being. Alison Jr. is a historian of Jesus and the world of/in and around the New Testament. What I appreciate about him is his careful writing style; his even-handedness in evaluating multiple potential viewpoints on a given question of history (e.g., ‘what was going on in the events we refer to as ‘the resurrection’?); and his willingness to readily admit when he simply doesn’t know what to make of something, or when he’s changed his mind. To mind, these are marks of a wise learner and thinker, someone genuinely interested in inquiry.