Eric Metaxas

Eric Metaxas

American author

He is the founder and host of Socrates in the City: Conversations on the Examined Life, an event series of “entertaining and thought-provoking discussions on ‘life, God, and other small topics’” featuring such guests as Malcolm Gladwell, Peter Thiel, astronaut Charlie Duke, David Berlinski, Sir John Polkinghorne, Richard John Neuhaus, Dick Cavett, N. T. Wright, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Dame Alice von Hildebrand, Peter Hitchens, Peter Kreeft, Sir Jonathan Sacks, Os Guinness, and Caroline Kennedy. In 2024, Socrates in the City launched its own digital streaming platform called Socrates+ which features original shows, exclusive articles, and more.

Eric’s Wall Street Journal op-ed, “Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God,” is unofficially the most popular and shared piece in the history of the Wall Street Journal.