Stephen D. Eide is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute’s Center for State and Local Leadership.

Nicole Gelinas is a City Journal contributing editor, the Searle Freedom Trust Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and the author of After the Fall: Saving Capitalism from Wall Street—and Washington.

Edward L. Glaeser is a professor of economics at Harvard University as well as a City Journal contributing editor and a Manhattan Institute senior fellow.

Howard Husock, a contributing editor of City Journal, is the Manhattan Institute’s vice president for policy research and director of its Social Entrepreneurship Initiative.

Kay S. Hymowitz is a contributing editor of City Journal, the William E. Simon Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and the author of Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys.

Heather Mac Donald is a contributing editor of City Journal and the John M. Olin Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. She is the author of The Burden of Bad Ideas and Are Cops Racist?: How the War Against the Police Harms Black Americans.

Myron Magnet, City Journal’s editor-at-large and its editor from 1994 through 2006, is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal. His next book is The Founders at Home.

Steven Malanga is the senior editor of City Journal and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. His latest book is Shakedown: The Continuing Conspiracy Against the American Taxpayer.

E. J. McMahon is a senior fellow with the Manhattan Institute and its Albany-based Empire Center for New York State Policy.

Aaron M. Renn is an urban analyst, consultant, and publisher of the urban policy website The Urbanophile.

Charles Upton Sahm is the deputy director of the Manhattan Institute’s Center for State and Local Leadership.

Sol Stern is a contributing editor of City Journal, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and the author of Breaking Free: Public School Lessons and the Imperative of School Choice.

Clark Whelton was a speechwriter for New York City mayors Ed Koch and Rudy Giuliani.

Marcus A. Winters is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, an assistant professor in the College of Education at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, and the author of Teachers Matter.

Artists:

Sean Delonas is a freelance illustrator and the coauthor, with his son, Ryan, of Scuttle’s Big Wish. Alberto Mena is a graphic designer based in New York City. Cover designer The Heads of State is a design firm run by Jason Kernevich and Dustin Summers. Kernevich and Summers are graduates of the Tyler School of Art and have won awards from Communication Arts, American Illustration, Print, Graphis, and the Society of Illustrators. Their clients include the bands R.E.M. and Wilco and the New York Times.

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