Brian Albrecht is chief economist of the International Center for Law & Economics and writes the weekly Substack “Economic Forces.”

Yael Bar Tur is a digital strategist who previously served as director of social media for the NYPD. She is the author of the Substack “Everyone on the Internet Hates You.”

Mark Bauerlein is professor emeritus at Emory University and a contributing editor of First Things.

Theodore Dalrymple is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and the author of many books.

Brian Patrick Eha is a widely published essayist, journalist, and critic. He lives and writes in New York.

Sanjana Friedman is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and a writer and researcher at Y Combinator.

Nicole Gelinas is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and the author of Movement: New York’s Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car.

Michael Gibson is a cofounder of the 1517 Fund and the author of Paper Belt on Fire: How Renegade Investors Sparked a Revolt Against the University.

Judge Glock is director of research at the Manhattan Institute and the author of The Dead Pledge: The Origins of the Mortgage Market and Federal Bailouts, 1913–1939.

Ed Latimore is a former professional heavyweight boxer, an Army veteran, and the author of Hard Lessons from the Hurt Business: Boxing and the Art of Life.

Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and the author of When Race Trumps Merit.

Steven Malanga is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a senior editor of City Journal.

Wilfred McClay is the Victor Davis Hanson Chair in Classical History and Western Civilization at Hillsdale College and the author of Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story.

Tom Ough isa senior editor at UnHerd, cohost of the Anglofuturism podcast, and the author of The Anti-Catastrophe League.

Shawn Regan is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

Jason L. Riley is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a columnist for the Wall Street Journal, and the author of The Affirmative Action Myth: Why Blacks Don’t Need Racial Preferences to Succeed.

Jacob Siegel is the author of The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control. He is a contributing editor of Tablet and host of the Manifesto! podcast.

Soundings:

Jarrett Dieterle is a legal policy fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Charles Fain Lehman is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a senior editor of City Journal. Allison Schrager is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal.

Artists:

Jim Brown is a photographer whose work has appeared for Getty Images. Alberto Mena is a graphic artist living in New York.

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