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Carson Holloway

Carson Holloway is a Washington Fellow in the Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of...

Matthew Franck

Matthew J. Franck is Contributing Editor of Public Discourse. He is also Associate Director of the...

Samuel Gregg

Samuel Gregg is Research Director at the Acton Institute and a Fellow of the Center for the Study of...

Christopher Tollefsen

Christopher O. Tollefsen is College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at t...

Adam J. MacLeod

Adam J. MacLeod is Professor of Law at Faulkner University, Thomas Goode Jones School of Law and a l...

Ryan T. Anderson

Ryan T. Anderson is Founding Editor of Public Discourse. He is also President of the Ethics and Pub...

R.J. Snell

R.J. Snell is Editor-in-Chief of Public Discourse and Director of Academic Programs at the Witherspo...

Anthony Esolen

Anthony Esolen is a professor and writer-in-residence at Magdalen College of the Liberal Arts in War...

Jennifer Bryson

Jennifer S. Bryson, Ph.D. studies religion, freedom, security, and sports. She was educated at Stanf...

Robert George

Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program...

Michael Stokes Paulsen

Michael Stokes Paulsen is Distinguished University Chair & Professor of Law, at the University o...

S. Adam Seagrave

S. Adam Seagrave is Associate Director and Associate Professor in the School of Civic and Economic T...

Mark Regnerus

Mark Regnerus is Contributing Editor of Public Discourse, Professor of Sociology at the University o...

Gerard Bradley

Gerard V. Bradley teaches constitutional law at Notre Dame, where (with John Finnis) he directs ...

William Carroll

William E. Carroll is Research Fellow in Theology and Science at the Aquinas Institute of Blackfriar...

Robert T. Miller

Robert T. Miller is a Professor of Law at the University of Iowa and a Fellow and Program Affi...

Nathaniel Peters

Nathaniel Peters is Contributing Editor of Public Discourse and Director of the Morningside Insti...

Sherif Girgis

Sherif Girgis earned his JD at Yale Law School and is a PhD candidate in philosophy at Princeton Uni...

Nathanael Blake

Nathanael Blake is a postdoctoral fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

Helen Alvaré

Helen Alvaré is Professor of Law at the Scalia Law School at George Mason University.

Justin Dyer

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Christopher Kaczor

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Randall Smith

Randall Smith is a tenured Full Professor of Theology. His book "Reading the Sermons of Thomas Aquin...

Michael New

Michael J. New, Ph.D., is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Busch School of Business at The Cath...

Daniel Ross Goodman

Daniel Ross Goodman is a writer, rabbi, and scholar from western Massachusetts. He holds a Ph.D. fro...

Charles Chaput

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Andrew T. Walker

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Melissa Moschella

Melissa Moschella is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Catholic University of America, and Mc...

Hadley Arkes

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Jennifer Lahl

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Stephen J. Heaney

Stephen J. Heaney is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Saint Thomas in Sain...

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Robert Oscar Lopez

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Scott Yenor

Scott Yenor is Professor of Political Science at Boise State University and author of Family Politic...

Jordan J. Ballor

Jordan J. Ballor is a senior research fellow at the Acton Institute and a postdoctoral researcher at...

Edward Feser

Edward Feser is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pasadena City College in Pasadena, CA.

Patrick Lee

Patrick Lee holds the John N. and Jamie D. McAleer Chair of Bioethics, and is the Director of the Ce...

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Robert Carle

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Ashleen Menchaca-Bagnulo

Ashleen Menchaca-Bagnulo is a native of south central Texas and Assistant Professor of Political S...

Michael A. Fragoso

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Arthur Goldberg

Arthur Goldberg is Co-Director of the American based Jewish Institute for Global Awareness (JIFG...

Micah Watson

Micah Watson is Associate Professor of political science at Calvin College.

Greg Forster

Greg Forster is the editor of Hang Together and the author of six books, including Joy for the W...

Richard M. Doerflinger

Richard M. Doerflinger is retired from 36 years' employment at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bisho...

James E. Hartley

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Russell Nieli

Russell K. Nieli is a lecturer in the Department of Politics and the James Madison Program in Americ...

Matthew J. Milliner

Matthew J. Milliner is Assistant Professor of art history at Wheaton College and serves on the Curat...

Jean C. Lloyd

Jean C. Lloyd, PhD, is a teacher, a writer, and a happily married mother of two school-age children....

Jennifer Morse

Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D., is the founder and president of the Ruth Institute, which equips peopl...

Jane Robbins

Jane Robbins is an attorney, researcher, and writer in Atlanta, GA.

James Stoner

James R. Stoner, Jr., is Hermann Moyse, Jr., Professor and Director of the Eric Voegelin Institute a...

Christian Brugger

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Mark Signorelli

Mark Anthony Signorelli is a poet and essayist whose work has appeared in the New English Review, th...

Mark Bauerlein

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Gerard T. Mundy

Gerard T. Mundy teaches philosophy, as a political philosophy/political theory specialist, at a priv...

Margarita Mooney

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John Londregan

John Londregan is Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University.

Paul R. DeHart

Paul R. DeHart is associate professor of political science at Texas State University. He is author o...

Erika Bachiochi

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Gregory J. Sullivan

Gregory J. Sullivan (Gregoryjsull@aol.com) is a lawyer who has written for First Things and The W...

Matthew O'Brien

Matthew B. O’Brien is a postdoctoral fellow at Villanova University.

Casey Chalk

Casey Chalk received a masters in theology from the Notre Dame Graduate School of Theology at Christ...

Mark W. Leach

Mark W. Leach is an attorney from Louisville, Kentucky, and a Master of Arts in Bioethics 2012 candi...

Nathan Pinkoski

Nathan Pinkoski is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at St Michael's College, University of Toronto. He...

John Finnis

John Finnis is Professor of Law and Legal Philosophy Emeritus in the University of Oxford and the Bi...

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Richard Garnett

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Steven D. Smith

Steven D. Smith is a Warren Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of San Diego. His rec...

Lyman Stone

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Maggie Gallagher

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L. Joseph Hebert

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Glenn Stanton

Glenn T. Stanton is the director of global family formation studies at Focus on the Family, the auth...

Edward R. Dougherty

Edward Dougherty is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineeri...

Michael Bradley

Michael Bradley is pursuing an MTS in historical theology at the University of Notre Dame.

Mary Rose Somarriba

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Patrick T. Brown

Patrick T. Brown is a former Congressional staffer, a policy fellow with the Institute for Family St...

Luma Simms

Luma Simms, a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, studies the life and thought of immigra...

Alana S. Newman

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Christopher White

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Vincent Phillip Muñoz

Vincent Phillip Muñoz is Tocqueville Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the P...

Ana Maria Dumitru

Ana Maria Dumitru, MD PhD is a resident physician in General Surgery at the University of California...

Daniel Philpott

Daniel Philpott is Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame.

David Azerrad

David Azerrad is the Director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for Principles and Politics and the...

Dominic Burbidge

Dr. Dominic Burbidge administers the Programme for the Foundations of Law and Constitutional Governm...

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Michael Hannon

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William Jeynes is Professor of Education at California State University, Long Beach. He graduated f...

Carl R. Trueman

Carl R. Trueman is Professor of Biblical and Religious Studies at Grove City College, Pa, and a Seni...

Dylan Pahman

Dylan Pahman is a research fellow at the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion & Liberty, wh...

Deirdre Cooper

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Daniel Kuebler

Daniel Kuebler is a Professor of Biology at Franciscan University of Steubenville.

Patrick Deneen

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Glenn Moots

Glenn Moots is professor of philosophy and political science at Northwood University. He is author o...

Philip Hawley, Jr.

Philip Hawley, Jr., MD, is a hospice physician and former Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediat...

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Rachel Sheffield

Rachel Sheffield is a policy analyst in the DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society at The Herit...

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Gerald McDermott is retired from the Anglican Chair at Beeson Divinity School. He has written and ed...

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Thomas Farr is President of the Religious Freedom Institute. A leading authority on international re...

Paul Carrese

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William J. Haun

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Robert L. McFarland is an associate professor and associate dean at Faulkner University’s Thomas G...

Matthew Schmitz

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Charles C. Camosy is Associate Professor of Theology at Fordham University. He writes a monthly “P...

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Matthew A. Shadle is Associate Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at Marymount Universi...

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Chris R. Armstrong was Professor of Church History at Bethel Seminary (MN) from 2005-2013 and the F...

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Ashton Ellis

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Mitchell Rocklin

Rabbi Mitchell Rocklin, Ph.D. is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University's Jam...

Brian Domitrovic

Brian Domitrovic is author of the history of supply-side economics Econoclasts (2009), with Lawr...

Peter Blair

Peter serves as the Program Manager for the Augustine Collective at the Veritas Forum. Previously, h...

Donna Harrison, M.D.

Donna Harrison, MD, is Executive Director of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians an...

Andrew Haines

Andrew Haines is a doctoral candidate in the School of Philosophy at The Catholic University of Amer...

Susan Martin writes about gender, fertility and memory from the perspective of a non-Jewish person w...

Yuval Levin

Yuval Levin is director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise I...

Matthew Tuininga

Matthew J. Tuininga is Assistant Professor of Moral Theology at Calvin Theological Seminary and an a...

Michael Wee

Michael Wee is the Education and Research Officer at the Anscombe Bioethics Centre, a Catholic acade...

Russ White

Russ White is a well-known voice in computer networking, where he advocates for simplicity, privacy,...

Rickard Newman

Rickard Newman is Secretary of Christian Formation and the Director of Family Life and Pro-Life in t...

Ted McAllister

Ted McAllister is an associate professor of public policy at Pepperdine University and was a 2012-20...

Jennifer Gruenke

Jennifer Gruenke is professor of biology and director of the Hammons Center for Scientific Studies a...

Mark Hoipkemier

Mark Hoipkemier is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the Uni...

Thomas Hibbs

Thomas Hibbs is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Dallas and Dean Emeritus of Baylor Univ...

Robert Vischer

Robert K. Vischer is Professor of Law at the University of St. Thomas Law School in Minneapolis. He ...

Elizabeth Kirk

Elizabeth R. Kirk is the Director of the Institute for Faith and Culture at the St. Lawrence C...

Richard Stith

Richard Stith is Senior Research Professor at Valparaiso University in Indiana and also a member of ...

Miles Smith

Miles Smith, PhD, is assistant professor in the Department of Government, History, and Criminal Just...

Casey Shutt

Casey Shutt is the assistant headmaster of the Academy of Classical Christian Studies in Oklahoma Ci...

Kian Hudson

Kian Hudson is a native Hoosier and currently serves as a deputy attorney general for the State of I...

Katherine Cave

Katherine Cave is a member of the Kelsey Coalition, a national group of parents whose transgender-...

Elyssa Koren

Elyssa Koren serves as director of United Nations advocacy in New York City, where she oversees AD...

Kenneth W. Kemp

Kenneth W. Kemp is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of St. Thomas.

Elayne Allen

Elayne lives and works in Washington, DC.

John C. Eastman

John C. Eastman is the Henry Salvatori Professor of Law & Community Service and former Dean at C...

Antonio Sosa

Antonio Sosa is a doctoral student in political philosophy at the University of Dallas.

Thomas Pink

Thomas Pink is Professor of Philosophy at King’s College, London. He writes on ethics, metaphysics...

George Yancey

George Yancey is professor of sociology at the University of North Texas. He has written over 30...

Rebekah Curtis

Rebekah Curtis is coauthor of LadyLike: Living Biblically (Concordia 2015) and has written for a num...

Matthew S. Holland

Matthew S. Holland is President of Utah Valley University and author of Bonds of Affection: Civic Ch...

Patrick Fagan

Patrick Fagan is Senior Fellow and Director of the Marriage and Religion Research Institute at the F...

Kelly Scott Franklin

Kelly Scott Franklin is an assistant professor of English at Hillsdale College. He is the editor of ...

Brendan Foht

Brendan Foht is assistant editor of The New Atlantis. He has bachelor’s degrees in political scien...

W. Bradford Wilcox

William Bradford Wilcox is Director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, ...

Kai Weiss

Kai Weiss is the Research and Outreach Coordinator of the Austrian Economics Center and a board memb...

Nathan Gill

Nathan Gill is a PhD student studying politics at Hillsdale College’s VanAndel Graduate School of ...

Arthur Milikh

Arthur Milikh is the Associate Director and Research Fellow, B. Kenneth Simon Center for Princip...

Darius Lee

Darius Lee was called to the Singapore Bar and practices law as an Associate Director at Characteris...

Michael K. Laidlaw

Michael K. Laidlaw, MD is a board-certified physician in Rocklin, California specializing in Endocri...

Andrew Koppelman

Andrew Koppelman is John Paul Stevens Professor of Law, Professor (by courtesy) of Political Science...

Jonathan Den Hartog

Jonathan Den Hartog is author of Patriotism and Piety: Federalist Politics and Religious Struggl...

Beverly Willett

Beverly Willett is a writer, lawyer, and co-founder of the Coalition for Divorce Reform. She has wri...

James C. Capretta

James C. Capretta is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

Michael Moreland

Michael P. Moreland is University Professor of Law and Religion and Director of the Eleanor H. McCul...

Richard G. Evans

Richard G. Evans lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and he returned to the Roman Catholic Church in 20...

Mark S. Latkovic

Mark S. Latkovic, STD, is Professor of Moral and Systematic Theology at Sacred Heart Major Seminary ...

Brian E. Fisher

Brian Fisher is the President and Co-Founder of Human Coalition and author of Abortion: The Ultimate...

Chad Felix Greene

Chad Felix Greene is the author of the Reasonably Gay: Essays and Arguments series and is a social...

Sarah B. Horgan

Sarah Horgan, MA, is a writer, a lover of Victorian literature, and an ardent supporter of child...

John Doherty

John Doherty is a member of the staff of The Witherspoon Institute.

Andrew Yuengert

Andrew M. Yuengert is the Blanche Seaver Chair of Social Science, and Professor of Economics at Pepp...

Collin Slowey

Collin Slowey is a student at Baylor University, where he studies political science and great texts....

Luca Volontè

Luca Volontè is the CEO of the Novae Terrae Foundation, Chair of Dignitatis Humanae Institute, and ...

Bradford Littlejohn

Brad Littlejohn is a Senior Fellow of the Edmund Burke Foundation, where he researches and writes on...

Susan T. Muskett

Susan T. Muskett is a veteran pro-life activist and attorney. Ms. Muskett graduated with honors from...

Philip Reed

Philip Reed is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York. His resea...

Gary Powell

Gary Powell is the European Special Consultant to the Center for Bioethics and Culture, California...

Jenet Jacob Erickson

Jenet Jacob Erickson is an adjunct professor and fellow of the Wheatley Institution at Brigham Young...

William Saunders

William Saunders is Fellow and Director of the Program in Human Rights at the IHE at CUA. He is also...

Francesca Aran Murphy

Francesca Murphy is a Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. She has written and...

Randall Otto

Randall Otto is Affiliate Faculty in religion for Southwestern College in Wichita, Kansas, a Mentor ...

Nancy Valko

Nancy Valko, RN, ALNC, is a longtime writer and speaker on medical ethics issues who recently retire...

Eric Teetsel

Eric Teetsel is executive director of the Manhattan Declaration. Follow him on Twitter @ericteetsel.

Thomas Tacoma

Thomas Tacoma (PhD - Hillsdale College) is an Assistant Professor of History and Political Science a...

Ron Belgau

Ron Belgauis the cofounder, with Wesley Hill, of the Spiritual Friendshipblog (spiritualfriendship.o...

Julia Shaw

Julia Shaw is a writer in Washington, DC.

Owen Strachan

Owen Strachan is a professor of systematic theology, Director of the Center for Public Theology, and...

Aaron Kheriaty

Aaron Kheriaty is Professor of Psychiatry at UCI School of Medicine and Director of the Medical Ethi...

Peter Wood

Peter Wood is the president of the National Association of Scholars.

Jill Burcham

Jill Burcham is a research director for a nonprofit organization and taught English while completing...

Stella Morabito

Stella Morabito is a senior contributor to The Federalist and blogs about relationships, power, and ...

Andrew Salzone

Andrew Salzone is a graduate of Liberty University, where he majored in government, with an emphasis...

Joseph E. Capizzi

Joseph Capizzi is Ordinary Professor of Moral Theology, and Executive Director of the Institute for ...

Colin J. Smothers

Colin J. Smothers serves as Executive Director of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood ...

Pierre Manent

Pierre Manent was director of studies at L’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, ...

Mark Stricherz

Mark Stricherz, a reporter in Washington, is the author of Why the Democrats Are Blue: Secular Liber...

Anne Hendershott

Anne Hendershott is Professor of Urban Studies at The King's College. Her articles have appeared in...

Denny Burk

Denny Burk serves as President of the Council on Biblical Manhood & Womanhood and as professor o...

Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P.

Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. serves as Assistant Director for Campus Outreach at the Thomistic Institute. ...

Adeline A. Allen

Adeline A. Allen is Associate Professor of Law at Trinity Law School.

Brock Dahl

Brock Dahl is an associate at the Palo Alto office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C. He ...

T.A. Cavanaugh

Thomas Anthony Cavanaugh is Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Francisco where he regu...

Paul Dirks

Paul Dirks has appeared before the Canadian Senate on Bill C-16 and regularly trains on the topics o...

Joel Pidel

Joel Pidel is a native of Augusta, Georgia, and practices traditional and classical architecture in ...

Mark K. Spencer

Mark K. Spencer is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnes...

Gabriel Schoenfeld

Gabriel Schoenfeld, the author of A Bad Day on the Romney Campaign: An Insider’s Account, among o...

Paul McHugh

Paul McHugh, MD, is University Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Medica...

Kevin E. Stuart

Kevin E. Stuart is the executive director of the Austin Institute for the Study of Family & ...

Kishore Jayabalan

Kishore Jayabalan is the director of the Acton Institute’s Rome office.

Brian A. Smith

Brian A. Smith is Managing Editor of Law & Liberty and the author of Walker Percy and the Poli...

Jay W. Richards

Jay W. Richards, Ph.D., O.P., is an Assistant Research Professor in the Busch School of Business at ...

Laura J. Lederer

Laura Lederer is President of Global Centurion Foundation, an NGO that combats human trafficking by ...

Dan Lipinski

Dan Lipinski represented the Third District of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives as a De...

David Lapp

David Lapp is a research assistant at the Institute for American Values in New York City.

Ashley McGuire

Ashley McGuire is a Robert Novak Journalism Fellow, a Senior Fellow with The Catholic Association, a...

Karen Swallow Prior

Karen Swallow Prior, Ph. D., is an award-winning Professor of English at Liberty University. She...

Mary Rice Hasson

Mary Rice Hasson, JD, is the Kate O'Beirne Fellow and the Director of the Catholic Women's Forum at ...

Donald W. Landry

Donald W. Landry, MD, PhD, is the Chair of the Columbia University Department of Medicine.

Patrick Garry

Patrick Garry is the author of Redefining Conservatism: A Creed for the Poor and Disadvantaged (...

Kelsey L.

Kelsey L. graduated with a BA in World Literature and Studio Arts from the College of the Holy Cross...

Allen Mendenhall

Allen Mendenhall is an associate dean at Faulkner University Thomas Goode Jones School of Law and ex...

David VanDrunen

David VanDrunen (JD, PhD) is the Robert B. Strimple Professor of Systematic Theology and Christian E...

Joshua Hren

Joshua Hren is founder of Wiseblood Books, co-founder of the Honors College at Belmont Abbey, and co...

Reggie Littlejohn

Reggie Littlejohn is President of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers.

Peter Myers

Peter C. Myers is professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

William Happer

William Happer is the Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics at Princeton University. From 1991 to...

David Gordon

David Gordon is a Research Associate with the Austin Institute. He specializes in econometrics and ...

Josiah Peterson

Josiah Peterson is a graduate student and assistant debate coach at St. John’s University in Queen...

Peter J. Smyczek

Peter J. Smyczek is a First Lieutenant in the United States Air Force Reserves and is attached as an...

Michael Pakaluk

Michael Pakaluk is Professor of Ethics and Social Philosophy and Associate Dean of Faculty at the Bu...

Nicholas Higgins

Dr. Nicholas Higgins is married to Anita, is the father of five children, and holds a PhD from the U...

Ignatius Joseph III Younan

His Beatitude Ignatius Joseph III Younan is Patriarch of the Syriac Catholic Church of Antioch.

Donald L. Drakeman

Donald L. Drakeman is Distinguished Research Professor in the Program on Constitutional Studies at t...

Edward J. Hamilton

Edward J. Hamilton is an attorney who writes about constitutional issues.

Nikos Salingaros

Nikos Salingaros is an architectural theorist, a long-time associate of Christopher Alexander, and a...

Santiago Ramos

Santiago Ramos is a writer living in Boston. For more information, go to his website.

Marc O. DeGirolami

Marc O. DeGirolami is a professor of law at St. John's University School of Law and the associat...

Molly Sheahan

Molly C. Sheahan is a graduate student at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marri...

Julia Mosby

Julia Dunn Mosby serves as Program Officer of the Love and Fidelity Network. She graduated from Prin...

Tadeusz Pacholczyk

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D. currently serves as the Director of Education at The National Catholi...

Seow Hon Tan

Dr. Seow Hon Tan is Associate Professor of Law specializing in legal philosophy at the School of Law...

J. Budziszewski

J. Budziszewski (Yale, 1981) is professor of government and philosophy at the University of Texas at...

Kim Colby

Kim Colby is Director of the Center for Law and Religious Freedom at the Christian Legal Society.

Roberta Green Ahmanson

Roberta Green Ahmanson is a writer and philanthropist whose public activities are focused on deepeni...

Daniel Robinson

Professor Daniel N. Robinson (born March 9, 1937 and died September 17, 2019) was a member of the Ph...

Peter Jon Mitchell

Peter Jon Mitchell is a senior researcher at the think tank Cardus, and has spent over a decade rese...

John G. Crandall

John Crandall, a supervisor for the US Postal Service, is currently pursuing a graduate degree at Bi...

Leslie Grimard

Leslie Grimard is a writer in Washington, DC.

Mike Sabo

Mike Sabo is a graduate of the Van Andel Graduate School of Statesmanship at Hillsdale College. ...

Emily Zinos

Emily Zinos works as a consultant with Ask Me First MN, a project of the Minnesota Family Council in...

Robert G Kennedy

Robert G. Kennedy is professor of Catholic Studies at the University of St. Thomas (MN). He earned h...

Matthew Mehan

Matthew Mehan is the Worsham Teaching Fellow at Hillsdale College’s Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for...

David Kern

David Kern is director of the Circe Institute’s multimedia initiatives (podcast host, web-content ...

Carlo Lancellotti

Carlo Lancellotti is a Professor of Mathematics at the College of Staten Island, and a Faculty in Ph...

Joe Garecht

Joe Garecht is the President of Garecht Fundraising Associates and a well-known speaker and auth...

Witherspoon Institute

Kathryn Francisco

Kathryn Francisco lives with her husband in the farmlands of New Jersey. She gives talks on the harm...

Alise Alexander

Alise Alexander is Campus Minister at an all-girls Catholic high school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. A...

Jack Gerard

Elder Jack N. Gerard is a General Authority Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Sain...

David Burris

David C. Burris is a full-time instructor of philosophy and religious studies at Arizona Western Col...

Jacqueline C. Rivers

Jacqueline C. Rivers is the Executive Director of the Seymour Institute for Black Church and Policy ...

Lynn D. Wardle

Lynn D. Wardle is the Bruce C. Hafen Professor of Law at the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Y...

Marie Smith

Marie Smith is the Director of the Parliamentary Network for Critical Issues (PNCI) and works with l...

Derek T. Muller is an associate professor of law at Pepperdine University School of Law. Professor M...

Paul Oslington

Paul Oslington is Professor of Economics and Theology at Alphacrucis College, the national college o...

Jeffrey Barrows

Jeffrey J. Barrows, DO, MA (Ethics) serves as Senior Vice President of Bioethics and Public Policy f...

Benjamin and Jenna Storey

Benjamin Storey is Jane Gage Hipp Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Furman Universi...

Rivka Edelman

Rivka Edelman is a visiting professor of literature and writing. She has published widely under a di...

James Tillman

James Tillman blogs at Seeking Omniscience.

W. Justin Dyer

W. Justin Dyer, PhD, is an assistant professor at Brigham Young University. He researches topics on ...

James B. LaGrand

James B. LaGrand is Director of the College Honors Program and Professor of American History at Mess...

Christopher R. Green

Christopher Green is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Mississippi. He has degrees fro...

Jonathan Ashbach

Jonathan Ashbach is a Ph.D. student at Hillsdale College. He holds a M.A. in Politics from Hillsdale...

Felix Miller

Felix James Miller is a graduate student in philosophy at the Catholic University of America. His pr...

Monique Robles, MD

Monique Robles, MD, is a board certified pediatric critical care physician. She received her bachelo...

Rida Fozi

Rida Fozi is an active member of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) and a frequent writer fo...

Bryan R. Cross

Bryan R. Cross (Ph.D.) is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Mount Mercy University.

Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde is currently Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, ...

Rita Joseph

Rita Joseph is author of "Human Rights and the Unborn Child" (Leiden & Boston, Martinus Nijhoff,...

Gunnar B. Gundersen

Gunnar Gundersen is an Affiliated Scholar and member of the Fellowship Faculty at the James Wilson I...

William Gonch

William Gonch is a Ph.D. Candidate in English at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he ...

Matthew Stewart

In addition to scholarly work, Matthew Stewart has published in such venues as City Journal, Law &am...

Andrea Picciotti-Bayer

Andrea Picciotti-Bayer is Director of the Conscience Project, a nonprofit organization advancing rel...

John Goerke

John Goerke is a writer living in St. Paul, MN. 

David R. Upham

David R. Upham, Ph.D., J.D., is an attorney and Associate Professor of Politics at the University of...

Shane Scott

Shane Scott was born and raised in Central Kentucky. He received an M.A. in Theology from Cincinnati...

Paul D. Miller

Paul D. Miller is a political scientist at the non-partisan, non-profit RAND Corporation and an assi...

James Gottry

James Gottry is an attorney and writer with Alliance Defending Freedom, an alliance-building legal o...

Zachary D. Schmoll

Zachary D. Schmoll is the founder of Entering the Public Square. He is a PhD student in humanities ...

Tapio Puolimatka

Tapio Puolimatka is a Professor of Educational Theory and Tradition at the University of Jyvaskyla, ...

Five Anonymous Moms

Anne Snyder

Anne Snyder is the Director of The Character Initiative at The Philanthropy Roundtable, where she is...

Howard Slugh

Howard Slugh is the General Counsel of the Jewish Coalition for Religious Liberty, as well as an at...

K. Blaine

Lawrence King

Lawrence King completed his Ph.D. in systematic theology at the Catholic University of America in 20...

Margaret S. Chisolm

Dr. Chisolm is Professor, Vice Chair for Education, and Director of the Paul McHugh Program for Huma...

James Hankins

James Hankins is Professor of History at Harvard University. He is the founder and General Editor of...

Cary Amiel G. Villanueva

Cary Amiel G. Villanueva, MD is an internal medicine resident at the Philippine General Hospital. An...

Matthew Arbo

Dr. Matthew Arbo serves as Associate Professor of Theological Studies and Director of the Center for...

Mark Perkins

Mark Perkins is Curate at St. Alban’s Anglican Cathedral in Oviedo, Florida and Executive Editor o...

Jeremy Adams

Jeremy S. Adams is the author of the forthcoming book Hollowed Out: A Warning About America’s Next...

Gregor Puppinck

Gregor Puppinck, PhD, is director of the European Center for Law and Justice in Strasbourg, France.

Salim Furth

Salim Furth, Ph.D., is a research fellow in macroeconomics at the Heritage Foundation and is learnin...

John F. Crosby

John F. Crosby is Professor of Philosophy at Franciscan University of Steubenville and Senior Fellow...

Jacob Reses

Jacob Reses is the director of strategic initiatives and advisor to the CEO at Heritage Action for A...

William Dailey

Fr. William R. Dailey, CSC is a priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross and Director of the Notre D...

David Talcott

Dr. David Talcott is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at The King’s College (NY).

Wilson D. Miscamble

Fr. Wilson D. Miscamble, C.S.C., is a Priest in the Congregation of Holy Cross and professor of hist...

Hesham A. Hassaballa

Hesham Hassaballa is both a practicing pulmonary and critical care physician and a writer in Chicago...

Mark Batey

Mark Batey is a brand consultant with a background in advertising and marketing. He was educated at ...

Logan Gage

Logan Paul Gage is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Franciscan University of Steubenville. His r...

Zena Hitz

Zena Hitz is a Tutor at St. John's College in Annapolis and the author of Lost In Thought: The Hidde...

Pro-Life Catholic Scholars

Ryan T. Anderson, Ph.D., President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center Father Nicanor Pier Gio...

Nathan Finn

Nathan A. Finn is Provost and Dean of the University Faculty at North Greenville University in Tiger...

Shimon Cowen

Rabbi Dr. Shimon Cowen is Director of the Institute for Judaism and Civilization in Melbourne, Austr...

Tiffany Barron

Tiffany Barron is a graduate student in the Princeton University Department of Politics, studying in...

Lawrence M. Mead

Lawrence M. Mead is a professor of politics and public policy at NYU.

Maura Shea

Maura Shea taught English literature for eight years and is now Manager of Student and Alumni Affair...

Joshua Wester

Joshua B. Wester serves as Chair of Research in Christian Ethics at the ERLC. He is also pursuing a ...

Jonathan Hannah

Jonathan Hannah is Program Director of the Program on Church, State & Society at the Notre Dame ...

Gracy Olmstead

Grace Olmstead is a journalist who focuses on farming, localism, and family. Her writing has been pu...

Gene Schaerr

Gene Schaerr, a married father and grandfather, is a Washington, DC attorney specializing in Supreme...

Matthew Loftus

Matthew Loftus is a family doctor who teaches and practices in Baltimore and East Africa. He tweets ...

Travis Weber

Travis Weber serves as Vice President for Policy at Family Research Council. He holds a J.D. fro...

Brian Simboli

Brian Simboli has written for Lifenews, American Spectator, Crisis Magazine, First Things, and Was...

Luis A. Silva

Luis A. Silva was a 2013-2014 William E. Simon Visiting Fellow in Religion and Public Life at Prince...

Graham Walker

Graham Walker is Executive Director of the Independent Institute. He was previously President of Pat...

Jordan Wales

Jordan Wales is an assistant professor of theology in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at H...

David Carroll Cochran

David Carroll Cochran teaches politics and directs the Archbishop Kucera Center for Catholic Intelle...

Seana Sugrue

Seana Sugrue is Associate Professor of Politics at Ave Maria University, and former Associate Direct...

Thaddeus J. Kozinski

Dr. Thaddeus J. Kozinski is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Wyoming Catholic Col...

Elizabeth Goyette

Elizabeth Goyette is a PhD candidate in political science at Baylor University. Her major interest i...

William Hay

William Anthony Hay, 2019-2020 James Madison Program Garwood Visiting Fellow, Princeton University i...

Andrew D. Graham

Andrew D. Graham serves as the Executive Director for Policy and Education & Senior Fellow at Fi...

Gregory Roper

Gregory Roper has taught English at the University of Dallas since August 2000. A scholar of Chaucer...

Robert Bellafiore

Robert Bellafiore, Jr. is a former Policy Advisor for the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee. Hi...

M. Anthony Mills

M. Anthony Mills is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a senior fellow at t...

Jeffrey A. Hart

Jeffrey Hart is a graduate of Olin College ('13) and a current student at Westminster Theological Se...

Denise Shick

Denise Shick is author of My Daddy’s Secret, When Hope Seems Lost, and Understanding Gender Confus...

Bruce Cole

Bruce Cole is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, DC. Between 2001...

Aaron D. Cobb

Aaron D. Cobb is an associate professor of philosophy at Auburn University at Montgomery. He is the ...

Babette Francis

Babette Francis is founder and coordinator of Australia’s Endeavour Forum, Inc., an NGO having spe...

David Cloutier

David Cloutier is Associate Professor of Theology at The Catholic University of America.

Yoram Hazony

Yoram Hazony is President of the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem. H...

Austin R. Nimocks

Austin R. Nimocks serves as senior legal counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom at its Washington, ...

Jon Schaff

Jon D. Schaff is Professor of Political Science at Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dako...

Andrew R. DeLoach

Andrew R. DeLoach is Assistant Professor and Director of the Center for Human Rights at Trinity Law ...

Joint Statement

Jacquelyn Lee

Jacquelyn Lee is currently a Junior Fellow at First Things. She interned at the Abbey of Regina Laud...

Philip Jeffery

Philip Jeffery is deputy opinion editor at Newsweek. His writing has also appeared in the Washington...

Travis Curtright

Travis Curtright, Phd, is Professor of Humanities and Literature at Ave Maria University. He is also...

James Patterson

James M. Patterson is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Gettysb...

Kelly Bartlett

Kelly Bartlett writes about pro-life and pro-family issues at MercatorNet.com.

James P. McGlone

James P. McGlone studied at Harvard College.

Stephen Barr

Stephen M. Barr is a theoretical particle physicist and professor at the University of Delaware. He ...

Michael D. Stark

Michael D. Stark, MD, and his wife, Grace Emily Stark, currently live in Guam with their newborn son...

Weronika Janczuk

Weronika Janczuk graduated from NYU in 2013 with a self-designed B.A. in the philosophy of the h...

Suzy Ismail

Suzy is the Founder of Cornerstone, a non-profit communication center. She is the author of many boo...

Dwight G. Duncan

Dwight G. Duncan is Professor of Law at the University of Massachusetts School of Law-Dartmouth.

Robert Clarke

Robert Clarke is a UK-qualified barrister and serves as Director of European Advocacy for ADF Intern...

Richard Spinello

Dr. Richard A. Spinello is Professor of Management Practice in the Carroll School of Management at B...

Mark Shiffman

Mark Shiffman is Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities at Villanova University, with e...

Scott Hahn

Dr. Scott Hahn is the Fr. Michael Scanlan Professor at Franciscan University of Steubenville and Fou...

Joshua Katz

Joshua T. Katz is Cotsen Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classics at Princeton Universi...

Jonathan Newman

Jonathan Newman is a pseudonym. The author travels to Cuba for humanitarian work.

Roger Severino

Roger Severino is director of the Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society, of ...

Thomas Berg

Fr. Berg currently serves as vice rector, professor of moral theology and director of admissions...

Matthew Ristuccia

Matthew P. Ristuccia, D.Min, is an ordained reverend and has served as the Senior Pastor of Stone Hi...

Daniel Frost

Daniel Frost (PhD, Princeton University) is a visiting assistant professor of Political Science at B...

Chloe Folmar

Chloe Folmar is a philosophy and psychology double major at the College of William & Mary gradua...

John Kartje

Fr. Kartje is a priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago. Since 2015 he has served as Rector of Mundelei...

Carl H. Esbeck

Carl H. Esbeck is the R.B. Price Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Missouri.

Nathan Swanson

Nathan Swanson is a Minnesota attorney. The views expressed here are his own and do not necessarily ...

Joseph Wright

Joseph Wright is a visiting fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the Univers...

Richard N. Williams

Richard N. Williams, PhD, is director of the Wheatley Institution at Brigham Young University.

Ian Speir

Ian Speir is a First Amendment attorney and a lecturer in constitutional law at the University of Co...

Frank Cannon

Frank Cannon is the president of American Principles Project, a conservative organization that works...

Trivius G. Caldwell

Trivius Caldwell is an active duty Army officer. Previously, he served as Assistant Professor of Eng...

Michael Robert Hepner

Michael Hepner is an assistant professor of criminal justice at the University of Dubuque.

Current and Former Chairs of the USCIRF

The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) is an independent, bipartis...

Matthew Hoberg

Matthew Hoberg is a Ph.D. student in Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.

Tomás Henríquez

Tomás Henríquez is a senior counsel for ADF International. He holds a law degree from the Pontific...

Marianna Orlandi

Marianna Orlandi is an Italian lawyer and a 2019-2020 James Madison Program Associate Research Schol...

Steven Wedgeworth

Steven Wedgeworth (M.Div, Reformed Theological Seminary) is the Associate Pastor of Faith Reformed P...

John Jalsevac

John is working on his PhD in medieval philosophy, with a dissertation examining Thomas Aquinas's ph...

Pavlos Papadopoulos

Pavlos Papadopoulos is assistant professor of humanities at Wyoming Catholic College.

James Lopez

James Lopez is pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Political Science at Indiana University and a Maste...

Alicia Grimaldi

Alicia Grimaldi is an independent parent advocate who lobbies in our nation’s capital and state di...

Tim Goeglein

Tim Goeglein is the Vice President for External Relations at Focus on the Family. He served in high...

Marguerite Hattouni Spencer

Marguerite Hattouni Spencer, AMRS, JD, is a Senior Member of the Adjunct Faculty in Theology at the ...

Brian Walsh

Brian Walsh is the executive director of the Ethics and Public Policy Center's program on American R...

Margaux Killackey

Margaux Killackey is the Deputy Assistant Director at the James Wilson Institute on Natural Rights &...

Aaron Alexander Zubia

Aaron Alexander Zubia, a graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary, is a PhD candidate in political...

Charles T. Rubin

Charles T. Rubin is Professor of Political Science at Duquesne University and a two-time alumnus of ...

Lee J. Strang

Professor Strang joined the University of Toledo faculty in 2008 and was named John W. Stoepler Prof...

John G. Brungardt

John Brungardt is a postdoctoral fellow at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and he re...

Philip Tartaglia

Philip Tartaglia is the Roman Catholic Bishop of Paisley, Scotland.

Ian Marcus Corbin

Ian Marcus Corbin is a Ph.D candidate in philosophy at Boston College.

Hans S. Roegele

Hans S. Roegele practices high-end residential design in New York City. He has been involved in the ...

Heather Smith

Heather Smith is an undergraduate student at Brigham Young University studying family life with an e...

Brandon Vaidyanathan

Dr. Brandon Vaidyanathan is Chair and Associate Professor of Sociology at The Catholic University of...

James Wood

Rev. James R. Wood is a doctoral candidate in theology at Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, g...

Eric Patterson

Eric Patterson, Ph.D. serves as Executive Vice President of the Religious Freedom Institute. Patters...

Oliver Olivarez

Oliver Olivarez is a character in GK Chesteron’s The Surprise. The author using this pseudonym hol...

Farr Curlin

Farr Curlin is Trent Professor of Medical Humanities, Medicine, and Divinity at Duke University. He ...

Laura Haynes

Laura Haynes, Ph.D. is a California psychologist who is retired from clinical practice with more tha...

David Dollahite

David C. Dollahite, PhD, is Camilla Eyring Kimball Professor of Family Life at Brigham Young Univers...

Grace Melton

Grace Melton serves as Senior Associate for Social Issues at the United Nations in the DeVos Center ...

Veronica Roberts Ogle

Veronica Roberts Ogle is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Assumption University, where she also ...

Phillip Wozniak

Phillip Wozniak is currently a fourth-year medical student, a 2017 Fulbright Scholar, and a proud al...

Adina Portaru

Adina Portaru is Legal Counsel for ADF International in Belgium, advocating for religious freedom at...

Douglas Kmiec

Douglas W. Kmiec is Caruso Chair & Professor of Constitutional Law at Pepperdine University Scho...

Meg McDonnell

Meg McDonnell is the communications director for the Chiaroscuro Foundation. McDonnell was a 2011 Ro...

St. Teresa of Calcutta

St. Teresa of Calcutta founded the Missionaries of Charity, a religious order devoted to serving the...

Paul A. Rahe

Paul A. Rahe is Professor of History at Hillsdale College. He is the author of Republics Ancient and...

Matthew McManus

Matthew McManus recently acquired his PhD in Socio-Legal Studies from York University. After complet...

Andrew Bramsen

Andrew Bramsen is assistant professor of political science at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minneso...

Kathleen Fenton

Kathleen Fenton, MD, is a pediatric-certified thoracic and cardiac surgeon working with children and...

Daniel Payne

Daniel Payne is an assistant editor at The College Fix, a daily higher education news website that ...

Alexander Zubatov

Alexander Zubatov is a practicing attorney specializing in general commercial litigation. He is also...

Melanie Baker

Melanie Baker is a contributing writer of HLI America, an educational initiative of Human Life Inter...

Andrew J. Zwerneman

Andrew J. Zwerneman serves as president of Cana Academy. His writing and broadcasts can be found at ...

Eileen Reuter

Eileen Reuter is a doctoral candidate in Philosophy and Education at Teachers College, Columbia Univ...

Michael Farris

Michael P. Farris is president and CEO of Alliance Defending Freedom. He brings to the role a divers...

Cardinal Timothy Dolan

Cardinal Timothy Dolan is Archbishop of New York and Chairman of the Committee for Religious Liberty...

Hilary Towers

Dr. Hilary Towers is a developmental psychologist and mother of five children. Her scholarly backgr...

Joseph Simmons

Joseph Simmons is a doctoral candidate in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chica...

Emily Carrington

Emily Carrington is a housewife in Southern Michigan and a mother of two children lost in early preg...

Roger Trigg

Roger Trigg is the author of many philosophy books (latterly on religion in public life, and rel...