Mustafa Akyol is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, where he focuses on the intersection of public policy, Islam, and modernity. Since 2013, he has also been a frequent opinion writer for the New York Times, covering politics and religion in the Muslim world. He is the author several books, including “Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance” (2021). Recently, the Prospect Magazine of the UK listed him among “The world’s top 50 thinkers.”