David M. Abromowitz
is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, focusing on housing policy and related federal and state programs and issues. He is partner in the law firm Goulston & Storrs.
Henry Alford,
Thurber Prize recipient, is the author of How to Live: A Search for Wisdom from Old People (While They Are Still on This Earth) (Twelve).
Charlotte Allen
is author of The Human Christ and a contributing editor to the Manhattan Institute's Minding the Campus website.
Patrick Allitt
was born and raised in England and graduated from
Oxford University. He is now Professor of
American History at Emory University in Atlanta.
His most recent books are Religion in America
Since 1945: A History and I'm the Teacher,
You're the Student: A Semester in the University
Classroom.
Daniel Akst
is a novelist and essayist in the Hudson Valley and a columnist for the New York Times.
Eric Alterman
a columnist for The Nation, is a professor of English and journalism at Brooklyn College and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and at Media Matters for America, where he publishes the popular blog Altercation, mediamatters.org/altercation. He is the author of six books, including When Presidents Lie: A History of Official Deception and Its Consequences (Viking/Penguin), from which this essay is drawn.
Digby Anderson
was the founder-director of The Social Affairs Unit and is now a consultant to it. He is author and contributing editor of a number of books and reports, including Losing Friends and All Oiks Now: The Unnoticed Surrender of Middle England.
Stuart Anderson
is Executive Director of the National Foundation for American Policy, a public policy research organization based in Arlington, Virginia.
Rachel Axler
is an Emmy-winning staff writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Judy Bachrach
is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and proprietor of TheCheckoutLine.org, a blog that deals with death and dying.
Scott Bakal
has worked as a professional illustrator for 15 years. He has won numerous major professional awards, including, most recently, a Silver Medal from the Society of Illustrators. The American Museum of Illustration has asked him to donate a piece for its permanent collection. His work has graced the pages of Time magazine, the Wall Street Journal, and Penthouse, to name a few.
Istvan Banyai
is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and many other publications. He is the author of a children's book called Zoom. His new book, The Other Side , will be published by Chronicle this fall.
Simon Baron-Cohen
is a professor of developmental psychopathology at the University of Cambridge and a fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Leora Batnitzky
is an associate professor of religion at Princeton University. She is
the author of Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas: Philosophy and the
Politics of Revelation and Idolatry and Representation: The
Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig Reconsidered. She is also the
editor of the forthcoming Martin Buber: Schriften zur Philosophie
und Religion and co-editor of Jewish Studies Quarterly.
Sharon Begley
is the science columnist of the Wall Street Journal.
Deidre Bair
has written biographies of Anais Nin, Carl Jung, Simone de Beauvoir, and Samuel Beckett. She won a National Book Award for the Beckett biography.
Anita Blair
is a former acting assistant secretary of the Navy.
Francis Blake
has been an illustrator for as long as he can remember. His artwork appears in magazines, books, and advertising campaigns across North America and Europe, as well as in the Far East, and his original paintings and drawings are in private collections as far apart as Melbourne, Toronto, and Wigan.
Tony Blankley
Washington Times columnist, is an executive vice president with Edelman, a public relations firm in Washington, D.C., and a regular on The McLaughlin Group. His most recent book is American Grit: What It Will Take to Survive and Win in the 21st Century (Regnery).
Myrna Blyth
is the former editor-in-chief of Ladies Home Journal and the author of Spin Sisters: How the Women of the Media Sell Unhappiness and Liberalism to the Women of America.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach's
newest book is The Blessing of Enough (HarperOne). www.shmuley.com. Follow him on twitter at RabbiShmuley.
James Bowman,
a resident scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, is author of Honor: A History (Encounter Books). His latest book is Media Madness: The Corruption of Our Political Culture (Encounter Books).
Stuart Briers
is a freelance illustrator working from London, UK. His output ranges from fast and furious artwork for newspapers and magazines to the more subtle requirements of brochure illustration.
Richard Brookhiser
is the author, most recently, of Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, The Rake Who Wrote the Constitution.
Pia Catton
is an editor at the New York Sun.
Damien Cave
is a reporter for the New York Times Metro Section.
Fiery Cushman
is pursuing his doctorate in psychology in the Cognitive Evolution
Laboratory at Harvard University. You can participate in online
studies and learn more about the research project at
www.moral.wjh.harvard.edu.
Alain de Botton
is the author of How Proust Can Change Your Life and Status Anxiety.
Theodore Dalrymple
is a physician and author whose works include Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses (Ivan R. Dee). His real name is Anthony Daniels, and he divides his time between England and France.
William Desmond
holds a doctorate from Yale and is a lecturer in the classics department at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. He is the author of two books: Cynics (University of California Press) and The Greek Praise of Poverty (University of Notre Dame Press), which recently won the National University of Ireland Centennial Prize for the best first single-authored book in languages, literature, and linguistics.
Debra J. Dickerson
is the author of An American Story and The End of Blackness. She has been a senior editor at U.S. News & World Report, the national correspondent for Salon, and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. Her essay "Who Shot Johnny" in The New Republic was included in The Best American Essays 1997. Ms. Dickerson received a J.D. from Harvard University and spent twelve years on active duty in the United States Air Force.
E. J. Dionne
is a columnist for the Washington Post and researches polling, politics and the media, and the role of religion in public life at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.
Michael Dirda
is a Pulitzer Prize-winning book columnist for the Washington Post and the author, most recently, of Classics for Pleasure (Harcourt).
Jean Bethke Elshtain
is the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago. Her books include Just War Against Terror (Basic Books).
Noemie Emery
is a contributing editor to the Weekly Standard.
Randall Enos
has been a magazine and newspaper illustrator for 49 years. In
addition to teaching, he has also drawn comic strips, illustrated children's
books, and done film design.
Robert D. Enright
is a professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is regarded as a founder of the discipline of forgiveness studies.
Jeanette A. Knutson Enright
serves on the board of the International Forgiveness Institute, Inc. in Madison.
Joseph Epstein
is the author most recently of Fred Astaire (Yale University Press).
Amitai Etzioni
was the first University Professor at The George Washington University, where he is also founder and director of The Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies.
Jeff Faux
founded the Economic Policy Institute in 1986, quickly turning it into one of the nation's top think tanks on political and economic issues for working Americans. Stepping down as president in 2003, Faux is now a Distinguished Fellow. He has worked as an economist in the Departments of State, Labor, and Commerce; as a manager in the finance industry; as a blueberry farmer; and as a member of a municipal planning board in the state of Maine.
Niall Ferguson
is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford. His web site is www.niallferguson.org.
David F. Ford
is Regius Professor of Divinity and director of the Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme at the University of Cambridge. His books include Christian Wisdom: Desiring God and Learning in Love (Cambridge University Press).
Marc Freedman
is the founder and president of Civic Ventures, a national nonprofit organization that works to expand the contributions of older Americans to society. He is the author of Prime Time: How Baby Boomers Will Revolutionize Retirement and Transform America.
Samuel G. Freedman
journalism professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, is a religion columnist for the New York Times. His books include Jew Vs Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry (Simon & Schuster) and Upon This Rock: The Miracles of a Black Church (HarperCollins).
William Galston
holds the Ezra K. Zilkha Chair in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and is a former policy advisor to President Clinton and various presidential candidates. He is an expert on domestic policy, political campaigns, and elections. His current research focuses on designing a new social contract and the implications of political polarization.
Howard Gardner
is the Hobbs Professor of Education and Cognition at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Nicole Gelinas
is a contributing editor to City Journal.
David Gibson
is the author of The Coming Catholic Church.
Eric Gibson
is the Leisure & Arts Features Editor of The Wall Street Journal.
Terry Golway
is director of the Kean Center for American History at Kean University in Union, New Jersey, and author of So Others Might Live, a history of the FDNY (Basic Books).
Trudy Govier
is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada. Her works include Forgiveness and Revenge (Routledge).
Bruce Grierson
lives in Vancouver with his wife and daughters. His book U-Turn: What If You Woke Up One Morning and Realized You Were Living the Wrong Life? (Bloomsbury USA) will be out in paperback this spring.
Charles L. Griswold
is a professor of philosophy at Boston University, and author of Forgiveness: a Philosophical Exploration (Cambridge University Press).
Jerome Groopman, MD,
is professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, chief of experimental medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and a leading researcher in the fields of cancer and AIDS. A staff writer for The New Yorker, Dr. Groopman is a prolific author whose books include The Measure of Our Days (Viking), Second Opinions (Viking), An Anatomy of Hope (Random House), and most recently, How Doctors Think (Houghton Mifflin).
Michael Joseph Gross
is the author of Starstruck: When a Fan Gets Close to Fame
(www.michaeljosephgross.com).
Meghan Cox Gurdon
is children's book critic for the Wall Street Journal and a columnist for the Washington Examiner.
Robert Hazen
author of Genesis: The Scientific Quest for Life's Origin, is Staff Scientist at the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory and Clarence Robinson Professor of Earth Science at George Mason University.
Arthur Herman
is the author of How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It. His new book on the British navy will be published in October.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali,
a former member of the Dutch parliament, is author of Infidel (Free Press) and The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam (Free Press). She collaborated with slain filmmaker Theo van Gogh on the film Submission.
John Horgan
is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in the New
York Times, Washington Post, Time, and other
publications. A former senior writer for Scientific
American, he is the author of The End of Science, The Undiscovered Mind, and Rational Mysticism.
Margo Howard
writes the syndicated column “Dear Prudence” for Slate.com.
Stephen Hunter
is a novelist and Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic who reviewed movies for many years for the Washington Post. His most recent book is Night of Thunder: A Bob Lee Swagger Novel (Simon & Schuster).
Kay S. Hymowitz
is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. She is the author of Liberation’s Children: Parents and Kids in a Postmodern
Age.
Immaculée Ilibagiza
is the author of Left to Tell (Hay House, Inc.). She has established the Ilibagiza Foundation to help other genocide survivors.
Walter Isaacson
a former managing editor of Time magazine, is president and CEO of the Aspen Institute. His books include Benjamin Franklin: An American Life and Einstein: His Life and Universe (Simon & Schuster). He lives in Washington, D.C.
Tamar Jacoby
is president of ImmigrationWorks USA.
Douglas B. Jones
Lives in Nelson, British Columbia, Canada and has illustrated for a wide variety of newspapers, magazines, advertising agencies, design firms and publishers, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Forbes Magazine, Nissan Motors, and Penguin Books. His work has been recognized by The Society of Illustrators, 3X3 Magazine, Communication Arts and The British Columbia Book awards.
Adam Keiper
is the managing editor of the New Atlantis and co-director of the Ethics and Public Policy Center's program on Science, Technology, and Society.
David M. Kennedy
teaches history at Stanford University, where he is the co-director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West. He won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford University Press).
Sir Ian Kershaw's
two-volume biography of Hitler has had a profound impact on the way the world looks at the Nazi dictator and his times. His most recent book is Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941. He was knighted in 2002 for his services in the field of history.
Mark Krikorian
is executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies.
Marietta Jaeger Lane
is a founder of Murder Victims' Families for Human Rights and Journey of Hope... From Violence to Healing, both international organizations that oppose the death penalty.
Mark Lasswell
is the deputy books editor at the Wall Street Journal.
Jonathan V. Last
is a staff writer at The Weekly Standard.
J. A. Leo Lemay
is the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Professor of English at the University of Delaware. He was named the Distinguished Scholar of Early American Literature by the Early American Literature Group of the Modern Language Association, as well as a John Guggenheim Fellow by the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has written seven books and edited nine on early American history and literature, including Reappraising Benjamin Franklin: A Bicentennial Perspective. The first two volumes of his projected seven-volume biography of Franklin have recently been published.
Seth Lobis,
a scholar of Renaissance poetry, teaches in the English department at Boston University.
Shane J. Lopez, Ph.D.,
is research director for the Clifton Strengths Institute and Gallup Senior Scientist in Residence. Lopez leads the research on the links between strengths development, hope, academic success, and overall well-being. He is a licensed psychologist and director of the Gallup Well-Being Forum. His publications with C. R. Snyder include Positive Psychological Assessment (APA) and Positive Psychology: The Scientific and Practical Explorations of Human Strengths (Sage).
Betsy Lunz
is a retired minister of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and currently the Minister of Pastoral Care on the staff of the Peachtree Road United Methodist Church, Atlanta, Georgia.
Jeff Madrick
is editor of Challenge magazine, senior fellow of the New School's Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, and author most recently of The Case for Big Government (Princeton University Press).
Francis X. Maier,
husband and the father of four, writes from Denver.
Irshad Manji,
author of The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslim's Call for Reform in Her Faith, is director of the Moral Courage Project at New York University's Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service. Contact her at www.irshadmanji.com.
Harvey Mansfield
is the author of Manliness (Yale University Press) and the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Government at Harvard University. He is a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution's workshop on virtue and liberty.
Gordon Marino
is a professor of philosophy and director of the Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota. He is author of Basic Writings of Existentialism (Modern Library Classics).
Jay Mathews
Washington Post education reporter, is author most recently of Work Hard. Be Nice.: How Two Inspired Teachers Created the Most Promising Schools in America (Algonquin).
Wilfred M. McClay
holds the SunTrust Bank Chair of Excellence at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where he is also a history professor. His books include the award-winning The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America (University of North Carolina Press). He is currently at work on a biography of the sociologist David Riesman.
Deirdre McCloskey
teaches economics, history, and English at the University of Illinois at Chicago; and philosophy, economics, and art and cultural studies at Erasmus University of Rotterdam. She is the author of twenty books on economics, British economic history, and the rhetoric and philosophy of economics; and is finishing another called The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Capitalism.
Michael McCullough
is a professor of psychology at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, where he directs the Laboratory for Social and Clinical Psychology. His most recent book is Beyond Revenge: The Evolution of the Forgiveness Instinct.
Rollin McGrail
has been a magazine and newspaper illustrator for
about thirty years, here and abroad. She has
collaborated on many books including TOASTS
(Crown), RIDDLES (Running Press) and LAW SCHOOL:
A Survivor's Guide (HarperCollins). Currently she
is illustrating a regular column for the
Washington Post.
Dr. Paul McHugh
is now the University Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is the author of more than 150 papers and four books. Try to Remember: Psychiatry's Clash over Meaning, Memory, and Mind (Dana Press) is his most recent.
Bill McKibben
is a scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College and the author of many books, including Enough, Wandering Home, The End of Nature, Hundred Dollar Holiday, and, most recently, Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future.
John McWhorter
is author of Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America. He is a Senior Fellow in Public Policy at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor to City Journal.
William Ian Miller
is author of The Mystery of Courage (Harvard University Press). He is the Thomas G. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His areas of interest include Icelandic sagas; medieval history; and emotions, vices, and virtues.
Kenneth Minogue
is a retired professor of government at the London School of Economics and a prolific author and essayist whose books include The Liberal Mind (Random House).
David Morris
is vice president of the thirty-three-year-old Institute for Local Self-Reliance (www.ilsr.org) and directs its New Rules Project. He is the author of five books, ranging from an analysis of the economic and political development of Chile, to an argument for self-reliant cities, to a how-to manual for those wanting to have on-site electricity generation while still being connected to the grid.
David G. Myers,
David G. Myers, a Hope College social psychologist, is the author of Intuition: Its Powers and Perils.
Robert Neubecker
has been an illustrator for thirty years. He appears twice weekly in Slate.com and is a regular contributor to Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, the Hartford Courant and The New York Times. He drew the poster for the movie Sideways, which won the prestigious Key award for best comedy poster of 2004. Robert's first book as an author-illustrator, Wow! City! won an ALA Notable Book award for 2005. His illustrated children's books include I Got Two Dogs, with John Lithgow and My Name is Sophie Peterman with Sarah Weeks. A longtime New Yorker, Robert now lives with his family in Park City, Utah.
Alana Newhouse
is the arts and culture editor of The Forward.
Michael Novak
is the George Frederick Jewett Scholar in Religion, Philosophy, and Public Policy at the American Enterprise Institute. His books include No One Sees God (Doubleday), Washington's God (Basic Books), and The Universal Hunger for Liberty (Basic Books).
Ronald L. Numbers
is Hilldale Professor of the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He recently served as editor of Galileo Goes to Jail, and Other Myths about Science and Religion (Harvard University Press).
Daniel Oppenheimer
lives in Austin, Texas, and is the co-author of the blog Masculinity and Its Discontents (man-ifesto.com). He’s writing a book about political turncoats.
Mark Oppenheimer
the editor of the New Haven Advocate, is the author of Knocking on Heaven's Door: American Religion in the Age of Counterculture and the forthcoming Thirteen and a Day: The Bar and Bat Mitzvah Across America.
Clifford Orwin
is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto and Distinguished Visiting Fellow and Member of the Task Force on the Virtues of a Free Society at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. He is a frequent contributor to the ]Globe & Mail, Canada's national newspaper of record. He has written extensively on the thinkers discussed in this article and is completing a book on the contemporary scene to be titled Deeply Compassionate.
Jeffery Paine,
former literary editor of the Wilson Quarterly, is author of Re-Enchantment: Tibetan Buddhism Comes to the West (Norton), Father India: How Encounters with an Ancient Culture Transformed the Modern West (HarperCollins), and most recently of Tales of Wonder (HarperCollins), with Huston Smith.
Star Parker
a former single mother on welfare, is the founder and president of CURE, the Coalition on Urban Renewal & Education, a non-profit think tank that focuses on issues of race and poverty in the media, inner-city neighborhoods, and public policy. She is a syndicated columnist and author most recently of White Ghetto: How Middle Class America Reflects Inner City Decay (Thomas Nelson).
Matthew Polly
is a travel writer for Slate. His debut book is American Shaolin.
Julie Powell
is the author of Julie & Julia:
365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment
Kitchen (Little, Brown).
Joe Queenan's
most recent book is Queenan Country: A Reluctant Anglophile's Pilgrimage to the Mother Country (Picador).
Jack N. Rakove
is the W. R. Coe Professor of History and American Studies and of political science at Stanford University. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (Alfred A. Knopf).
Garry Reeder
is a first-year MBA student at Columbia Business School. Prior to Columbia, he worked at Ziff Brothers Investments and Sanford C. Bernstein. Between his two Wall Street stints, he helped manage a political campaign in his native North Carolina.
Rosalind Remer
Executive Director of the Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary Commission and an early American historian, recently spoke with Leo Lemay about Franklin’s views on thrift.
William Rieser
has been illustrating for magazines and for advertising and marketing campaigns for twenty-five years. His work has appeared in BusinessWeek, in Pepsi and Coca-Cola advertisements, and in publications of the NBA and NFL. He lives and works in California.
Jason L. Riley
is a senior editorial writer at The Wall Street Journal.
Christine Rosen
is a fellow at the Ethics & Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., and author of Preaching Eugenics: Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement.
Jeffrey Rosen
teaches law at George Washington University and is the legal affairs
editor of The New Republic. His new book is The Most
Democratic Branch: How the Courts Serve America (Oxford).
Holly Lebowitz Rossi
is a freelance writer based in Arlington, Mass. She can be reached through her web site, hollyrossi.com.
Joan Roughgarden
is a biologist at Stanford University and author of Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender and Sexuality in Nature and People (University of California Press).
Robert Royal
is president of the Faith & Reason Institute. His books include The Catholic Martyrs of the Twentieth Century: A Comprehensive World History (The Crossroad Publishing Company) and The God That Did Not Fail: How Religion Built and Sustains the West (Encounter Books).
Robert Sapolsky
is a professor of biology and neurology at Stanford University and the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation genius grant. His autobiography, A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons tells the story of his three decades of field work in East Africa, where he studies stress among the members of a tribe of baboons.
Sally Satel
is a psychiatrist and resident scholar at the
American Enterprise Institute. She received a
renal transplant in March 2006.
Carol Sargeant
is a home-schooling mother of four living outside
of Philadelphia. She has an advanced degree in
theology, a vendetta against carpenter ants, and,
much to Martha Stewart's displeasure, a plastic
children's slide smack in the center of her
living room.
Sam Schulman
was publisher and co-founder of The American and Wigwag and taught English literature at Boston University, M.I.T., and Yale. His essays have been published in Commentary, The Spectator (London), the Wall Street Journal, and the Weekly Standard. He lives in Virginia.
Roger Scruton
specializes in politics, aesthetics, and religious issues. He is author of numerous books and articles including most recently Beauty (Oxford University Press). He is a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
George Scialabba
is a book critic and the author of Divided Mind (Arrowsmith Press).
Carey Seal
is a graduate student in classics at Princeton University.
Alison Seiffer
is a freelance illustrator whose work has appeared in Time, Business Week, The New Yorker, and other publications. She lives in Montauk, New York.
Wendy Shalit
is the author of A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue, and the founder of ModestyZone.Net. She lives with her family in Toronto, where she's at work on her second book, for Random House.
Walter Shapiro
made his name covering presidential campaigns. His One-Car Caravan: On the Road with the 2004 Democrats Before America Tunes In chronicled the 2004 race. He lives in New York and Washington, D.C.
Michael Shermer
is publisher and editor-in-chief of Skeptic magazine and a founder of the Skeptics Society. He is the author of The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics.
Fred Siegel
is the author of The Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York, and the Genius of American Life from Encounter Press.
Harry Siegel
is the editor-in-chief of New Partisan. He is writing a book on gentrification in New York.
Christina Hoff Sommers
is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise
Institute. She is the author of Who Stole
Feminism?, The War Against Boys, and
co-author of One Nation Under Therapy.
Willard Spiegelman
is the Hughes Professor of English at Southern Methodist University and the editor in chief of Southwest Review. His latest book is How Poets See the World: The Art of Description in Contemporary Poetry (Oxford University Press).
Jeremy Stangroom
is an editor of The Philosophers' Magazine
(www.philosophersnet.com), and the author of a number of books,
including Why Truth Matters (with Ophelia Benson) and What
Scientists Think. He is currently writing a book against capital
punishment, as a memorial to his brother, who was murdered ten years
ago.
Richard Stengel
is president and CEO of the National Constitutional Center and author of You're Too Kind: A Brief History of Flattery.
Bret Stephens
is a member of the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal. From 2002 to 2004, he was editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Post.
Terry Teachout
is the drama critic of the Wall Street Journal, the music critic of Commentary, a member of the National Council on the Arts, and the author of several books about American art and culture, including A Terry Teachout Reader. He blogs about the arts at www.terryteachout.com.
Dick Teresi
is a cofounder of Omni magazine, the author of Lost Discoveries: The Ancient Roots of Modern Science - From the Babylonians to the Maya, and coauthor, with the physicist Leon Lederman, of The God Particle.
Philip Terzian
is the literary editor of The Weekly Standard.
Robert Thurman
is the Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Buddhist studies at Columbia University, President of Tibet House US, and the author of many books on Buddhism and Tibet; most recently, Infinite Life (Riverhead) and Why the Dalai Lama Matters (Atria).
James Turner
is a Toronto-based illustrator and drinker of coffee. His work has
appeared in publications such as The Wall Street Journal,
Reader's Digest , and enRoute . His first graphic
novel, Nil: A Land Beyond Belief , was published in 2005. More
of his work can be viewed at www.jtillustration.com.
Kurt Vargo
has won numerous awards in the field of communications art, and his work has been featured in American Illustration, Communication Arts, Print Magazine and Society of Illustrators annuals. A faculty member at the Savannah College of Art and Design, his illustrations have been published in Europe and Japan as well in the United State.
William Voegeli
is a visiting scholar at Claremont McKenna College's Henry Salvatori Center for the Study of Individual Freedom in the Modern World and a contributing editor to the Claremont Review of Books.
Mark E. Warren
holds the Harold and Dorrie Merilees Chair for the Study of Democracy at the University of British Columbia and is the academic director of the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions.
Amy Welborn
writes the Via Media blog on Beliefnet and is the author of numerous books, including Mary and the Christian Life: Scriptural Reflections on the First Disciple (Word Among Us). She lives in Birmingham, Alabama.
Diana West
is a syndicated columnist and author of The Death of the Grown-Up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization (St. Martin's Press). She lives in Washington, D.C.
Christine Whelan
received a doctorate from the University of Oxford for her research on the self-help industry. She is currently under contract with Templeton Press for a book on the core virtues of self-help. Contact her at christine@christinewhelan.com.
Dennis Wholey
is host of the PBS television series This Is America and author of The Courage to Change: Conversations about Alcoholism (Grand Central Publishing) and Why Do I Keep Doing That? Why Do I Keep Doing That? Breaking the Negative Patterns in Your Life (HCI).
Jeffrey Whitman,
a professor of philosophy at Susquehanna University, formerly taught philosophy at the United States Military Academy at West Point.
Carl Wiens
has been working as an illustrator for more than twenty years. His work appears regularly in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time, Esquire, Business Week, Forbes, and This Old House. He has been recognized by (and has appeared in) American Illustration, 3 x 3, Print Magazine, and Applied Arts. He lives in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada.
James Q. Wilson
is the Ronald Reagan Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University. He is the author or co-author of fourteen books, the most recent of which are The Marriage Problem: How Our Culture Has Weakened Families, Moral Judgment, and The Moral Sense. Many of his writings on morality and human character have been collected in On Character: Essays by James Q. Wilson.
Ruth R. Wisse
is the Martin Peretz professor of Yiddish and professor of comparative literature at Harvard. Her books include If I Am Not for Myself (Free Press).
Alan Wolfe
is professor of political science and Director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College. His most recent book is The Transformation of American Religion: How We Actually Practice Our Faith.
Gregory Wolfe
is editor of Image journal. Among his books are Malcolm Muggeridge: A Life and Intruding Upon the Timeless: Meditations on Art, Faith, and Mystery. He has also co-authored several books with his wife Suzanne, including Books That Build Character and Bless This House: Prayers for Children and Families.
Roger Xavier
is a scratchboard illustrator whose line drawings are centered on three key visual elements: pattern, design & style. For more information and samples of his work please visit www.rogerxavier.com.
Carl Zimmer
is the author of several popular science books, including Parasite Rex, Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea, and, most recently, Soul Made Flesh. Mr. Zimmer writes frequently for the New York Times, as well as for magazines, including National Geographic, Science, Newsweek, Popular Science, and Discover, where he is a contributing editor.
