Joe Biden won the 2020 election against Donald Trump, when Kamala Harris, also a Democrat, could not in 2024? Why?

Harris wrote Letter to a Christian Nation two years later.

James Clear, author of Atomic Habits, #1 New York Times bestselling book is also a free will sceptic, stating:

We do not have the freedom and free will that we think we do. Yes, you can make conscious choices, but everything that makes up those conscious choices (your thoughts, your wants, your desires) is determined by prior causes outside your control. Just because you can do what you want does not mean you have free will because you are not choosing what you want in the first place.

Jerry A. Coyne Professor of Ecology and Evolution at The University of Chicago, and author of Why Evolution is True is yet another who argues that we do not have free will:

Free will is an illusion so convincing that people simply refuse to believe that we don't have it. In Free Will, Sam Harris combines neuroscience and psychology to lay this illusion to rest at last. Like all of Harris's books, this one will not only unsettle you but make you think deeply.

Sam Harris also endorses Coyne.

There are the alternate positions. David Lawrence's, Debunking Determinism: Robert Sapolsky, Sam Harris, and the Crusade Against Free Will in a paperback in 2023, is possibly the most powerful of the pro-free will protagonists. Born and raised in Los Angeles, where he received a BA from UCLA and a JD, Lawrence does not have the academic qualifications of Sapolsky and Harris. Finding himself frustrated by the popular presentations about the nature of consciousness, David sought to explore the conventional wisdoms of pop culture, in particular the question of whether we have free will or are determined. He argues that free will is losing the battle. Determinists are tirelessly spreading the gospel of causation. They dominate social media, podcasts, and YouTube, he asserts.

Another protagonist of free will is Kevin J. Mitchell in Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will published by Princeton University Press in 2023.

Associate professor of genetics and neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin, Mitchell is also the author of Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are (Princeton) and runs a popular blog, Wiring the Brain. A search on that blog will reveal Undetermined - a response to Robert Sapolsky. Part 4 - Loosening the treaties of fate. His work has appeared in publications such as Scientific American, the Guardian, and Psychology Today.

Traversing billions of years of evolution, Mitchell tells the remarkable story of how living beings capable of choice arose from lifeless matter. He explains how the emergence of nervous systems provided a means to learn about the world, granting sentient animals the capacity to model, predict, and simulate. Mitchell reveals how these faculties reached their peak in humans with our abilities to imagine and to be introspective, to reason in the moment, and to shape our possible futures through the exercise of our individual agency. Mitchell's argument has important implications-for how we understand decision making, for how our individual agency can be enhanced or infringed, for how we think about collective agency in the face of global crises, and for how we consider the limitations and future of artificial intelligence. Note that Kevin Mitchell is an Associate Professor, an academic ranking below full professor.

Gregg D. Caruso's edited volume, Exploring the Illusion of Free will and Moral Responsibility is a collection of new essays bringing together an internationally recognized line-up of contributors, most of whom hold sceptical positions of some sort,

Compatibilism, as the name suggests, is the view that the existence of free will and moral responsibility is compatible with the truth of determinism. In most cases, compatibilists (also called "soft" determinists) attempt to achieve this reconciliation by subtly revising or weakening the commonsense notion of free will.