Jillian Becker is the author of numerous articles and more than a dozen books, including The Keep and Hitler’s Children: The Story of the Baader-Meinhof Terrorist Gang.

Nick Burns is a contributing writer at The New Statesman. His essays have been published in American Affairs, National Review, and other periodicals.

Cullum Clark is an adjunct professor of economics and the director of the Bush Institute Economic Growth Initiative at Southern Methodist University.

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

Stephen Eide is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal.

Kay S. Hymowitz is a City Journal contributing editor, 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.

Joel Kotkin is a fellow at Chapman University, the executive director of the Urban Reform Institute, and a senior fellow at Heartland Forward.

Charles Fain Lehman is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal.

Bruno Maçães is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and the author of History Has Begun: The Birth of a New America.

Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and the author of the best-selling Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture.

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

Charles F. McElwee is the editor of RealClear’s Public Affairs page on Pennsylvania. He is the 2020–21 John Farley Memorial Fellow, part of the Fund for American Studies’ Robert Novak Journalism Program.

E. J. McMahon is an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute and founder and senior fellow of the Empire Center for Public Policy, an independent think tank based in Albany, New York.

Christopher F. Rufo is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal.

Lee Siegel is writing his seventh book, Why Argument Matters, which will be published next year.

John Tierney is a contributing editor of City Journal, a contributing science columnist for the New York Times, and coauthor of The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It.

Soundings:

Seth Barron is managing editor of The American Mind and author of The Last Days of New York. Tevi Troy is a presidential historian and former White House aide. His latest book is Fight House: Rivalries in the White House from Truman to Trump. Stephen J. K. Walters is the author of Boom Towns: Restoring the Urban American Dream and chief economist at the Maryland Public Policy Institute. Joel Zinberg, M.D., J.D., is a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and an associate clinical professor of surgery at the Icahn Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. He was general counsel and senior economist in 2017–19 at the Council of Economic Advisers, where he specialized in health policy. The views expressed here are his own. 

Artists:

Richard B. Levine began shooting with a 35mm camera at age 13 and has worked as a professional photographer since the 1980s. He lives in New York City, where he enjoys capturing street scenes. Jamie Meggas is a graphic designer from Cleveland. Alberto Mena is a graphic artist living in New York.

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