Paul Beston is managing editor of City Journal and the author of The Boxing Kings: When American Heavyweights Ruled the Ring.

David Black is a prize-winning novelist, journalist, screenwriter, television producer, and a scholar-in-residence at Kirkland House, Harvard.

Wendell Cox is the principal of Demographia, a public-policy consultancy, and a senior fellow at the Center for Opportunity Urbanism.

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.

Thomas B. Edsall is a New York Times contributing op-ed writer and the author of The Age of Austerity: How Scarcity Will Remake American Politics.

Nicole Gelinas is a City Journal contributing editor and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

Anne Hendershott is a professor and director of the Veritas Center for Ethics in Public Life at Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio.

Kay S. Hymowitz is a City Journal contributing editor, the William E. Simon Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and the author of The New Brooklyn: What It Takes to Bring a City Back.

Joel Kotkin is the presidential fellow in urban futures at Chapman University and executive director of the Center for Opportunity Urbanism.

Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and the author of The War on Cops.

Myron Magnet, City Journal’s editor-at-large, 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.

Joshua Mitchell is professor of political theory at Georgetown University and the author of Tocqueville in Arabia: Dilemmas in the Democratic Age.

Henry Olsen is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. He is the author of The Working Class Republican: Ronald Reagan and the Return of Blue-Collar Conservatism.

Mario Polèse is a professor at Montreal’s Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique.

Aaron M. Renn is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal.

Marcus A. Winters is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and an associate professor at Boston University.

Soundings & Symposium:

Claire Berlinski, a City Journal contributing editor, is an American journalist who lives in Paris. 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. Stephen Eide is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Howard Husock is vice president for research and publications at the Manhattan Institute. Scott W. Johnson is a Minneapolis attorney and a contributor to the site Power Line. Charles Upton Sahm is director of education policy at the Manhattan Institute. Fred Siegel is a City Journal contributing editor and the author of The Revolt Against the Masses: How Liberalism Has Undermined the Middle Class. Guy Sorman, a City Journal contributing editor, is the author of many books, including Economics Does Not Lie: A Defense of the Free Market in a Time of Crisis.

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 in New York. Robert Pizzo is an award-winning illustrator (robertpizzo.com). Arnold Roth is a cartoonist whose work has appeared in Punch, The New Yorker, the New York Times, and many other publications. Ethel Wolvovitz is an award-winning New York City street photographer. 

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