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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jean Bethke Elshtain
is the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago and co-chair of the Pew Forum on Religion and American Public Life. She is the author of many books, including: Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy, Democracy on Trial, and Augustine and
the Limits of Politics.
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.
Joseph Epstein
is the author of Friendship: An Expose, to
be published by Houghton Mifflin in July 2006.
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.
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.
Howard Gardner
is the Hobbs Professor of Education and Cognition at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
David Gibson
is the author of The Coming Catholic Church.
Eric Gibson
is the Leisure & Arts Features Editor of The Wall Street Journal.
Michael Joseph Gross
is the author of Starstruck: When a Fan Gets Close to Fame
(www.michaeljosephgross.com).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Wilfred M. McClay
teaches history and humanities at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and is the author of The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America and the forthcoming Figures in the Carpet: Finding the Human Person in the American Past.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Alana Newhouse
is the arts and culture editor of The Forward.
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.
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).
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. She is the editor of In Character.
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.
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.
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,
who has covered the last seven presidential
campaigns, is the Washington bureau chief for
Salon.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
