Michael Knox Beran, a lawyer and writer, is a contributing editor of City Journal and the author of Jefferson’s Demons. His previous book, The Last Patrician, was a New York Times Notable Book of 1998.

Richard Brookhiser is a senior editor of National Review and a columnist for the New York Observer. He is the author of Alexander Hamilton, American and Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution.

Theodore Dalrymple is a physician who regularly sees patients in an English prison. He is a contributing editor of City Journal and a columnist for the Spectator. His latest book, Life at the Bottom, is a collection of his City Journal essays.

Robert P. George, the author of In Defense of Natural Law and The Clash of Orthodoxies, is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. He is a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics.

Howard Husock is director of case studies at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and a City Journal contributing editor. An Emmy Award–winning journalist, he is the author of America’s Trillion-Dollar Housing Mistake and Repairing the Ladder: Towards a New Housing Policy Paradigm.

Kay S. Hymowitz, a contributing editor of City Journal, is the author of Liberation’s Children: Parents and Kids in a Postmodern Age and Ready or Not: Why Treating Children as Small Adults Endangers Their Future—And Ours.

Stefan Kanfer is a contributing editor of City Journal and a former editor of Time. The most recent of his many books is Ball of Fire: The Tumultuous Life and Comic Art of Lucille Ball.

Heather Mac Donald is a contributing editor of City Journal and John M. Olin Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. She is the author of Are Cops Racist? and The Burden of Bad Ideas.

Steven Malanga is a contributing editor of City Journal and a senior fellow at the
Manhattan Institute. He was formerly executive editor at Crain’s New York Business.

E. J. McMahon is a senior fellow for tax and budgetary studies at the Manhattan Institute’s Center for Civic Innovation.

Sol Stern is a contributing editor of City Journal and the author of Breaking Free: Public School Lessons and the Imperative of School Choice.

David L. Tubbs, a Brady Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, is completing a book entitled Liberalism’s Orphans.

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