David Black is a prize-winning novelist, journalist, screenwriter, and television producer. He is a scholar-in-residence at Kirkland House, Harvard. His newest novel is Fast Shuffle.

Pascal Bruckner is a French writer and philosopher. His article was translated by Alexis Cornel.

Robert Bryce is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and the author of Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper: How Innovation Keeps Proving the Catastrophists Wrong.

Theodore Dalrymple is a contributing editor of City Journal, the Dietrich Weismann Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and the author of many books, including Out into the Beautiful World.

Matt DeLisi is Coordinator of Criminal Justice Studies, Professor in the Department of Sociology, and Faculty Affiliate of the Center for the Study of Violence at Iowa State University.

Stephen Eide is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

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.

Carolyn Gorman is the project manager for education policy and mental illness policy at the Manhattan Institute.

Matthew Hennessey is associate op-ed editor at the Wall Street Journal.

Howard Husock is vice president for research and publications at the Manhattan Institute and a City Journal contributing editor.

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

Steven Malanga is the senior editor of City Journal and the George M. Yeager Fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

Judith Miller is a City Journal contributing editor and author of The Story: A Reporter’s Journey.

Robert Nason is a writer living in New York. His work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Commentary, and The Weekly Standard.

Charles Upton Sahm is director of education policy at the Manhattan Institute.

Edward Short is the author of Newman and His Contemporaries, Newman and His Family, and the forthcoming Newman & History.

Fred Siegel is a City Journal contributing editor, scholar-in-residence at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, and the author of The Revolt Against the Masses: How Liberalism Has Undermined the Middle Class.

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

John Tierney is a contributing editor of City Journal and a contributing science columnist for the New York Times.

John Paul Wright is Professor at the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati.

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Seth Barron is associate editor of City Journal and project director of the NYC Initiative at the Manhattan Institute. Rafael A. Mangual, a former resident of Chicago, manages legal-policy projects at the Manhattan Institute, where his research and writing focus on criminal-justice reform. Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and the author of the New York Times bestseller The War on Cops. E. J. McMahon is a Manhattan Institute senior fellow and president of the Empire Center for Public Policy.

Artists:

Lisa DeJong is a documentary photographer based in Cleveland. Alberto Mena is a graphic designer in New York. Kathy Willens is an Associated Press photographer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Sports Illustrated, and many other publications. 

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