Playground →
The top 10 neighbors for Neal Katyal span a narrow similarity band — 0.9937 down to 0.9842 — with no single standout pulling away from the pack. The composition of that cluster is what defines the shape: politicians, journalists, and a government official, with only one fellow academic in the set.
George Conway leads at 0.9937, followed closely by journalists Jennifer Rubin (0.9911) and Asha Rangappa (0.9864), and politicians Bill Kristol (0.9859) and Michael McFaul (0.9854). John O. Brennan, a government official, sits at 0.9883. Laurence Tribe (0.9906) is the only other academic in the top 10; the remaining neighbors — Matthew Miller (0.9846), Rick Wilson (0.9846), and Steve Schmidt (0.9842) — are journalists and a professional. Politicians account for four of the ten neighbors, journalists for three, making those two subcategories the structural core of the cluster. The cross-kind character here is notable: Katyal's audience shape aligns far more with political commentators and media figures than with other academics, with Tribe the lone exception.
The flat, tightly compressed scores across this mix suggest an audience that moves as a coherent bloc through political-media commentary space rather than gravitating toward any single figure or type.
