Authors

Matthew Franck (135)

Matthew J. Franck is Senior Contributing Editor of Public Discourse. He is also a retired Lecturer in Politics at Princeton University, Senior Fellow at the Witherspoon Institute, and Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Radford University, where he chaired the department and taught courses in political philosophy, constitutional law, and American politics. Franck has written, edited, or contributed to books published by the University Press of Kansas, Lexington Books, Oxford University Press, and Cambridge University Press, and has published articles and reviews in American Political Thought, the Review of Politics, the Journal of ...

Carson Holloway (106)

Carson Holloway is a Washington Fellow in the Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life and co-editor of The Political Writings of Alexander Hamilton (Cambridge University Press).

Christopher Tollefsen (100)

Christopher Tollefsen is Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina. His most recent book, with Farr Curlin, is The Way of Medicine: Ethics and the Healing Profession. In 2024-25 he is a Visiting Fellow with the deNicola Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame.

Samuel Gregg (90)

Samuel Gregg is the Friedrich Hayek Chair in Economics and Economic History at the American Institute for Economic Research, and the author, most recently, of The Next American Economy: Nation, State, and Markets in an Uncertain World (2022).

R.J. Snell (85)

R.J. Snell is Editor-in-Chief of Public Discourse and Director of Academic Programs at the Witherspoon Institute. Previously, he was for many years Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Philosophy Program at Eastern University and the Templeton Honors College, where he founded and directed the Agora Institute for Civic Virtue and the Common Good. He earned his M.A. in philosophy at Boston College, and his Ph.D. in philosophy at Marquette University. His research interests include the liberal arts, ethics, natural law theory, Thomas Aquinas, the Catholic intellectual tradition, and the work of Bernard Lonergan, SJ. ...

Adam J. MacLeod (64)

Adam J. MacLeod is Professor of Law at Faulkner University, Thomas Goode Jones School of Law and Research Fellow of the Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy. He has been a research fellow at George Mason University and a visiting fellow at Princeton University.

Ryan T. Anderson (74)

Ryan T. Anderson is Founding Editor of Public Discourse. He is also President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. He is the author of When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment and Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Freedom. He is the co-author of 

Nathaniel Peters (43)

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

Anthony Esolen (41)

Anthony Esolen is a professor and writer-in-residence at Magdalen College of the Liberal Arts in Warner, New Hampshire. He is the author or translator of twenty-five books on culture, religion, and education, including, most recently, The Hundredfold: Songs for the Lord, and Sex and the Unreal City: The Demolition of the Western Mind (both from Ignatius Press).    

Robert George (64)

Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. He has served as Chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and as a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. He also served as the U.S. member of UNESCO’s World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology. His honors include the U.S. Presidential Citizens Medal, the Honorific Medal ...

Michael Stokes Paulsen (39)

Michael Stokes Paulsen is Distinguished University Chair & Professor of Law, at the University of St. Thomas, in Minneapolis. He is co-author, with Luke Paulsen, of The Constitution: An Introduction, published by Basic Books.

Jennifer Bryson (39)

Jennifer S. Bryson, Ph.D., is a Fellow in the Catholic Women's Forum at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, DC. She is currently translating works by Ida Friederike Görres from German to English. She lives in Lincoln, NE.

Mark Regnerus (36)

Mark Regnerus is Contributing Editor of Public Discourse, Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, and a senior fellow at the Austin Institute for the Study of Family and Culture. His research is in the areas of sexual behavior, family, marriage, and religion. Mark is the author of more than forty published articles and book chapters, and three books. His most recent book is entitled Cheap Sex and the Transformation of Men, Marriage, and Monogamy (Oxford, 2017,) in which he describes the world that has come to be due to the influence of technology ...

Nathanael Blake (33)

Nathanael Blake, Ph.D. is a Fellow in the Life and Family Initiative at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. His research interests include American political theory, Christian political thought, and the intersection of natural law and philosophical hermeneutics. His published scholarship has included work on Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Alasdair MacIntyre, Russell Kirk and J.R.R. Tolkien.

S. Adam Seagrave (32)

S. Adam Seagrave is Associate Director and Associate Professor in the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University. He is the author of The Foundations of Natural Morality: On the Compatibility of Natural Rights and the Natural Law.

Gerard Bradley (34)

Gerard V. Bradley teaches constitutional law at Notre Dame, where (with John Finnis) he directs the Natural Law Institute. His most recent books include Catholic Social Teaching: A Volume of Scholarly Essays (edited with Christian Brugger, published by Cambridge University Press) and Unquiet Americans: United States Catholics and the Common Good (Saint Augustine's Press).

William Carroll (28)

William E. Carroll is Distinguished Visiting Professor, School of Philosophy Zhongnan University of Economics and Law (Wuhan, China) and Visiting Professor of Philosophy Hongyi Honor College, Wuhan University.

Robert T. Miller (28)

Robert T. Miller is the F. Arnold Daum Chair in Corporate Finance and Law and a Professor of Law at the University of Iowa College of Law, a Research Fellow at the Law & Economics Center at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, and a Fellow and Co-Director of the Program on Organizations, Business and Markets at the Classical Liberal Institute at New York University Law School.

John Doherty (23)

John Doherty is Director of Finance of The Witherspoon Institute.

Justin Dyer (23)

Justin Dyer is director of the Civitas Institute, professor of government, and Jack G. Taylor Regents Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author, with Kody Cooper, of The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics: Political Theology, Natural Law, and the American Founding (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

Melissa Moschella (25)

Melissa Moschella is Professor of the Practice of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame's McGrath Institute for Church Life. Her newest book is Ethics, Politics, and Natural Law: Principles for Human Flourishing (University of Notre Dame Press, 2025).

Charles Chaput (21)

Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., is the archbishop emeritus of Philadelphia.

Helen Alvaré (21)

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

Randall Smith (21)

Randall Smith is a Full Professor in the Department of Theology at the University of St. Thomas in Houston. He is the author of over thirty scholarly articles and six books.  His most recent book, Bonaventure's Journey of the Mind Into God: Context and Commentary will be released this month by Cambridge University Press.

Serena Sigillito (26)

Serena Sigillito is Editor of Fairer Disputations. She recently completed a Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship focusing on contemporary American women’s experiences of work and motherhood. Follow her on Twitter: @SerenaSigillito

Sherif Girgis (25)

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

Andrew T. Walker (27)

Andrew T. Walker is associate professor of Christian Ethics at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and a Fellow with The Ethics and Public Policy Center. He is the author of the forthcoming Faithful Reason: Natural Law Ethics for God’s Glory and Our Good.

Christopher Kaczor (20)

Christopher Kaczor is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University and the author of many books, including Jordan Peterson, God, and Christianity: The Search for a Meaningful Life.

Hadley Arkes (20)

Hadley Arkes is the Founder/Director of the James Wilson Institute on Natural Rights & the American Founding, and the Ney Professor Emeritus of Jurisprudence at Amherst College. He is the author of Mere Natural Law: Originalism and the Anchoring Truths of the Constitution (Regnery 2023).

Daniel Ross Goodman (19)

Daniel Ross Goodman is a writer, rabbi, and scholar from western Massachusetts. He is a faculty member in the theology and religious studies department at St. John's University, a former postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Divinity School, and a contributing writer for the Washington Examiner. He is the author of three books: Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Wonder and Religion in American Cinema; the novel A Single Life; and, most recently, Soloveitchik's Children: Irving Greenberg, David Hartman, Jonathan Sacks, and the Future of Jewish Theology in America (University of Alabama ...

James E. Hartley (19)

James E Hartley is Professor and Chair of Economics at Mount Holyoke College. You can follow him at https://jamesehartley.com or on Twitter @JamesEHartley.

Nathan Schlueter (20)

Nathan Schlueter is Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Hillsdale College. He is the author of several books and articles, as well as the popular online course “Introduction to Western Philosophy.”

Michael New (18)

Michael J. New, Ph.D., is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Busch School of Business at The Catholic University of America and an Associate Scholar at the Charlotte Lozier Institute. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate from Dartmouth College, Dr. New received a doctorate in political science from Stanford University.

Patrick T. Brown (19)

Patrick T. Brown is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where he writes on family policy. He is a former senior policy advisor to Congress' Joint Economic Committee, and lives in Columbia, S.C.

Jordan J. Ballor (17)

Jordan J. Ballor (Dr. theol., Ph.D.) is director of research at the Center for Religion, Culture & Democracy at First Liberty Institute and also serves as associate director at the Junius Institute for Digital Reformation Research at Calvin Theological Seminary and the Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity & Politics at Calvin University.

Richard M. Doerflinger (16)

Richard M. Doerflinger is a Fellow with the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, University of Notre Dame, and Adjunct Fellow in Bioethics and Public Policy with the National Catholic Bioethics Center. He is the former Associate Director of the Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. He lives in Washington state.

Walt Heyer (16)

Walt Heyer is an accomplished author and public speaker. Through his website, SexChangeRegret.com, and his blog, WaltHeyer.com, Heyer raises public awareness about the incidence of regret and the tragic consequences suffered as a result of unnecessary sex change surgery.

Casey Chalk (15)

Casey Chalk is a senior editor at New Oxford Review. He received a B.A. in history and a masters in teaching from the University of Virginia, and a masters in theology from Christendom College.

Doug Mainwaring (15)

Doug Mainwaring is a marriage and children’s rights activist.

Edward Feser (15)

Edward Feser is professor of philosophy at Pasadena City College, and the author of Immortal Souls: A Treatise on Human Nature.  

Jennifer Lahl (15)

Jennifer Lahl is the Founder and President of the Center for Bioethics and Culture and producer of the documentary films, Eggsploitation, Anonymous Father’s Day, Breeders: A Subclass of Women?, and Maggie’s Story. In 2018 she released #BigFertility which is an official selection in the Silicon Valley International Film Festival.

Michael A. Fragoso (15)

Michael A. Fragoso is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a partner at Torridon Law PLLC. He was chief counsel for nominations on the Senate Judiciary Committee during Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court confirmation process. He also served as chief counsel to then-Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell.

Micah Watson (17)

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

Rachel Lu (15)

Rachel Lu is a writer based in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her work has appeared in The Week, America Magazine, National Review, The American Conservative, and other publications. She has a PhD in philosophy from Cornell University, and is a Robert Novak Journalism Fellow.

Robert Carle (14)

Robert Carle (bcarle@tkc.edu) is a Professor of Theology at The King’s College in Manhattan. Dr. Carle has contributed to The Wall Street Journal, The American Interest, Religion Unplugged, Newsday, Society, Human Rights Review, Public Discourse, Academic Questions, and Reason.

Scott Yenor (14)

Scott Yenor is Professor of Political Science at Boise State University and author of Family Politics: The Idea of Marriage in Modern Political Thought and David Hume’s Humanity: The Philosophy of Common Life and Its Limits.

Stephen J. Heaney (14)

Stephen J. Heaney is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Saint Thomas in Saint Paul, MN. He has published in The Thomist, The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, The Human Life Review, Nova et Vetera, Crisis, Homiletic and Pastoral Review, Touchstone Magazine, Twin Cities newspapers and, of course, Public Discourse on topics in ethics and political philosophy such as abortion, marriage, sexuality, and voting ethics.

Ashleen Menchaca-Bagnulo (13)

Ashleen Menchaca-Bagnulo is a native of south central Texas and Assistant Professor of Political Science at Texas State University.

Devorah Goldman (14)

Devorah Goldman is a contributing editor at Public Discourse, a senior editor at Mosaic magazine, and the Tikvah Visiting Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Her writings on culture, bioethics and medical policy have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg BNA, The Weekly Standard, National Affairs, The New Atlantis, and other outlets. A licensed social worker, Devorah previously worked as a legislative staffer in the Senate and an editor at National Affairs. She is also runs the

Jean C. Lloyd (13)

Jean C. Lloyd, PhD, is a teacher, a writer, and a happily married mother of two school-age children. She is currently writing a book entitled Love would not allow what Love could not restore.

Joshua Pauling (13)

Joshua Pauling is vicar at All Saints Lutheran Church (LCMS) in Charlotte, NC. He is author of the book Education's End: Its Undoing Explained, Its Hope Reclaimed and co-author with Robin Phillips of the book Are We All Cyborgs Now? Reclaiming Our Humanity from the Machine. He is contributing editor at Salvo, columnist at Modern Reformation, and has written for a variety of other publications including CiRCE, Forma Journal, Front Porch Republic, Logia, The Lutheran Witness, Mere Orthodoxy, Merion ...

Robert Oscar Lopez (13)

Robert Oscar Lopez is author of Colorful Conservative: American Conversations with the Ancients from Wheatley to Whitman and editor of 

Carl R. Trueman (12)

Carl R. Trueman (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is professor of biblical and religious studies at Grove City College. He is an esteemed church historian and previously served as the William E. Simon Fellow in Religion and Public Life at Princeton University. Trueman is a member of The Orthodox Presbyterian Church.

James Stoner (12)

James R. Stoner, Jr., is Hermann Moyse, Jr., Professor and Director of the Eric Voegelin Institute at Louisiana State University. Author of Common Law & Liberal Theory and Common-Law Liberty, he co-edited Political Thought of the Civil War and three volumes for the Witherspoon Institute, where he is senior fellow.

Patrick Lee (12)

Patrick Lee holds the John N. and Jamie D. McAleer Chair of Bioethics, and is the Director of the Center for Bioethics, at Franciscan University of Steubenville. He is the author of three books (Body-Self Dualism in Contemporary Ethics and Politics, with Robert P. George, 2008) Abortion and Unborn Human Life, 2010), Conjugal Union: What Marriage Is and Why It Matters, with Robert P. George, 2014), and of numerous scholarly and popular articles. He has testified to the US House of Representatives, addressed the Workshop for United States Catholic Bishops, and has spoken and debated on various topics at Universities such as Boston ...

Stefano Gennarini (12)

Stefano Gennarini is the Vice President for Legal Studies at the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam) in New York. He tweets as @prolifeadvocate. The views expressed here are solely his own.

Alexandra Davis (11)

Alexandra Davis is the managing editor of Public Discourse.

Allen C. Guelzo (12)

Dr. Allen C. Guelzo is the Thomas W. Smith Distinguished Research Scholar in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University, where he also directs the Madison Program’s Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship. His newest book is Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy and the American Experiment (Knopf, 2024), to be followed by Voices from Gettysburg: Letters, Papers, and Memoirs from the Greatest Battle of the Civil War, which will be released by Kensington Press in May 2024.

Arthur Goldberg (12)

Arthur Goldberg is Co-Director of the American based Jewish Institute for Global Awareness (JIFGA), former Co-Director of JONAH, Inc. JIFGA sponsors www.fundingmorality.com, a crowd-funding site for those committed to Biblical values. He has authored Light in the Closet: Torah, Homosexuality, and the Power to Change. You can contact him at Arthur@jifga.org

Daniel Burns (14)

Daniel E. Burns is associate professor of politics at the University of Dallas. He is president of the Dallas Forum on Law, Politics, and Culture and a fellow at the Catholic University of America's Institute for Human Ecology. He is currently a visiting fellow at the Civitas Institute of the University of Texas at Austin.

Elayne Allen (18)

Elayne Allen is a PhD student in political theory at the University of Notre Dame. She previously worked as a research assistant in the American Enterprise Institute's Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies department. Her writings have appeared in Public Discourse, Time, City Journal, American Purpose, Law & Liberty, The American Interest, and Breaking Ground. Elayne received her BA in Great Texts and Political Philosophy from Baylor University’s Honors College. She is an alumna of the John Jay Fellowship, Hudson Institute Political Studies Program, ...

Greg Forster (11)

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

Jane Robbins (11)

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

Matthew J. Milliner (11)

Matthew J. Milliner is Assistant Professor of art history at Wheaton College and serves on the Curatorial Advisory Board of the United States Senate. He blogs at millinerd.com.

Margarita Mooney Clayton (12)

Margarita Mooney Clayton is an Associate Professor of Practical Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary, where she teaches classes such as philosophy of social science; aesthetics and education; Christianity and the liberal arts tradition, and resilience, vulnerability and suffering. She is the Founder and Executive Director of Scala Foundation, a nonprofit organization in Princeton, New Jersey, that works to offer meaning and purpose in education by restoring beauty and classical liberal arts education. Professor Mooney received her B.A. in Psychology from Yale University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton ...

Charles C. Camosy (11)

Charles C. Camosy is Professor of Medical Humanities at the Creighton University School of Medicine and holds the Monsignor Curran Fellowship in Moral Theology at St. Joseph Seminary in New York. He writes a monthly “Purple Catholicism” column for RNS and is the author of seven books. ...

Glenn Moots (10)

Glenn Moots is a Professor at Northwood University and fellow at the McNair Center there. He is author of Politics Reformed: The Anglo-American Legacy of Covenant Theology and co-editor of Justifying Revolution: Law, Virtue, and Violence in the American War of Independence. He was a fellow in the James Madison Program at Princeton University in 2013-14.

Russell Nieli (10)

Russell K. Nieli is a lecturer in the Department of Politics and the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University.

Alexander Riley (10)

Alexander Riley is professor of sociology at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania and a senior fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization. His Substack newsletter can be found here. All views expressed are his and do not represent the views of his employer.

Chen Guangcheng (9)

Chen Guangcheng is a Distinguished Fellow at The Catholic University of America’s Center for Human Rights. He is also the host of The Barefoot Lawyer Reports, a podcast in which he discusses human rights abuses in Communist China. His work can be found at https://catholic.edu/chr, and he can be reached at cfhr-humanrights@cua.edu.

Daniel Philpott (10)

Daniel Philpott is Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. He earned his Ph.D. in 1996 from Harvard University and specializes in religion and politics, focusing on religious freedom, reconciliation, the political behavior of religious actors, and Christian political theology. He is currently writing a Christian account of justice. His books include ...

Christian Brugger (9)

E. Christian Brugger is Senior Research Fellow of Ethics at the Culture of Life Foundation, Washington, DC.

Erika Bachiochi (12)

Erika Bachiochi is a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a Senior Fellow at the Abigail Adams Institute where she founded and directs the Wollstonecraft Project. Her latest book, The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision, was published in 2021 and was a finalist for ISI's Conservative Book of the Year Award. A 2018 Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School, Erika  co-founded St. Benedict Classical Academy and is the proud mom of seven children.

Gregory J. Sullivan (9)

Gregory J. Sullivan is a lawyer in New Jersey.

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde (10)

Professor Fernandez-Villaverde has been a visiting Professor at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Oxford, and Cambridge and a visiting scholar at several Federal Reserve Banks, the European Central Bank, and the Bank of Spain. He is a member of NBER and CEPR, and a fellow of the Econometric Society. He is also a member of the editorial board of leading economic journals such as Econometrica, International Economic Review, and NBER Macroeconomics Annual. He has authored several books and over 60 scientific articles, with nearly 10,000 citations. For more information on him, visit his 

Jennifer Morse (9)

Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D., is the founder and president of the Ruth Institute, which equips people to defend traditional Christian sexual morality. She is the author of The Sexual State: How Elite Ideologies Are Destroying Lives and Why the Church Was Right All Along.

Mark Bauerlein (9)

Mark Bauerlein is Emeritus Professor of English at Emory University and an editor at First Things. He earned his doctorate at UCLA in 1988. He also served as Director of the Office of Research and Analysis at the National Endowment for the Arts from 2003 to 2005. His books include Literary Criticism: An Autopsy (1997) and The Dumbest Generation Grows Up: From Stupefied Youth to Dangerous Adults (2022). He is a trustee of New College of Florida.

Nathan Pinkoski (9)

Nathan Pinkoski is an Assistant Professor of the Humanities at the Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education at the University of Florida. He has translated Alasdair MacIntyre: An Intellectual Biography (Alasdair MacIntyre: une biographie intellectuelle) by Émile Perreau-Saussine, with University of Notre Dame Press.

Paul R. DeHart (9)

Paul R. DeHart is Professor of Political Science of Texas State University in San Marcos. He is author of The Social Contract in the Ruins (University of Missouri Press, 2024) Uncovering the Constitution’s Moral Design (also with the University of Missouri Press, 2007; 2017) and editor (with Carson Holloway) of Reason, Revelation, and the Civic Order: Political Philosophy and the Claims of Faith (Northern Illinois University Press, 2014). He has published articles in journals such as Polity, Critical Review, Locke Studies, Perspectives on Political Science, the Catholic Social ...

Richard Garnett (9)

Richard W. Garnett is the Paul J. Schierl / Fort Howard Corporation Professor of Law, Concurrent Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Program on Church, State, and Society at the University of Notre Dame. He lives in South Bend, Indiana with his wife, Professor Nicole Stelle Garnett, and their four children.

Robert Lowry Clinton (9)

Robert Lowry Clinton is Professor Emeritus at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He is the author of Marbury v. Madison and Judicial Review, God and Man in the Law: The Foundations of Anglo-American Constitutionalism, and numerous articles in academic and popular publications.

Steven D. Smith (9)

Steven D. Smith is a Warren Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of San Diego. His recent publications include Pagans and Christians in the City (Eerdmans 2018) and The Rise and Decline of American Religious Freedom (Harvard 2014).

Alexandra DeSanctis (10)

Alexandra DeSanctis is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and co-author of Tearing Us Apart: How Abortion Harms Everything and Solves Nothing.

Gerard T. Mundy (8)

Gerard T. Mundy teaches philosophy, as a political philosophy/political theory specialist, at a private liberal arts college in New York.

John Londregan (9)

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

Mark Signorelli (8)

Mark Anthony Signorelli is a poet and essayist whose work has appeared in the New English Review, the Front Porch Republic, the University Bookman, Arion, and the Evansville Review.

Mark W. Leach (8)

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

Matthew O'Brien (8)

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

Terence Sweeney (8)

Terence Sweeney is an assistant teaching professor in the Honors Program and the Humanities Department at Villanova University. He has written for America Magazine, First Things, Plough Magazine, Church Life Journal, National Catholic Register and other publications.

Vincent Phillip Muñoz (8)

Vincent Phillip Muñoz is Tocqueville Associate Professor of Political Science, Concurrent Associate Professor of Law, and the founding director of the Center for Citizenship & Constitutional Government at the University of Notre Dame.

Alana S. Newman (7)

Alana Newman is the founder of AnonymousUs.org, an online story-collective regarding reproductive technologies. She is the co-author of Happy Couple Creed and regularly writes on matters of family and bioethics at AlanaNewman.com. Follow her on Twitter at 

Ben Peterson (7)

Ben Peterson is an assistant professor of political science at Abilene Christian University. He has published essays in a number of outlets, drawing from resources in Christian social and political theory, the broader Western tradition of political thought, and contemporary social science to address questions relevant to public policy.

Christopher White (7)

Christopher White is the Director of Education and Programs at the Center for Bioethics and Culture and a 2013-2014 Robert Novak Fellow.

Dominic Burbidge (7)

Dr Dominic Burbidge is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Oxford and Director of the Canterbury Institute.

Dylan Pahman (8)

Dylan Pahman is a research fellow at the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion & Liberty, where he serves as executive editor of the Journal of Markets & Morality. He is author of the book Foundations of a Free & Virtuous Society (2017).

Edward R. Dougherty (7)

Edward Dougherty is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, where he holds the Robert M. Kennedy '26 Chair.

Glenn Stanton (8)

Glenn T. Stanton is the director of global family formation studies at Focus on the Family, the author of nine books on family, sex and gender. His latest is The Myth of the Dying Church: How Christianity is Actually Thriving in America and the World (Worthy, 2019).

Howard L. Muncy (8)

Howard L. Muncy is the Director of Operations for the Academic Freedom Alliance (AFA). Howard held the position of Lecturer for the Politics Department at Princeton University and taught introductory American history courses for Eastern Kentucky University. Prior to these positions, Howard was an Advanced Placement United States history teacher and chair for over fifteen years at the secondary level. Howard was awarded the James Madison Memorial Fellowship in 2016 and served as President for the Kentucky Association of the Teachers of History (KATH) in 2017. He holds a Bachelor’s in ...

Hunter Baker (7)

Hunter Baker, J.D., Ph.D. serves as provost and dean of faculty at North Greenville University. He is the author of The End of Secularism, Political Thought: A Student's Guide, and The System Has a Soul. Dr. Baker is affiliated with Braver Angels, Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity, The Journal of Markets and Morality, The Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy, and The Land Center of Southwestern Seminary. He also writes frequently for World Opinions.

Jamie Boulding (10)

Jamie Boulding is Assistant Professor of Theology and Science at Seton Hall University. He is the author of The Multiverse and Participatory Metaphysics: A Theological Exploration (Routledge, 2022).

John Finnis (8)

John Finnis is Professor of Law and Legal Philosophy Emeritus in the University of Oxford and the Biolchini Family Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame. From 1986 to 1991 ...

Jorge Jraissati (7)

Jorge Jraissati is the Director of Alumni of Students For Liberty, an NGO with over 2,800 freedom activists in 117 countries. His work is focused on establishing alumni initiatives aimed at advancing liberal democracy and economic development. Jorge is also an economist and a researcher at IESE Business School.

Kelly Hanlon (9)

Kelly Hanlon is Contributing Editor of Public Discourse and Director of Operations at the Witherspoon Institute. Over the past fifteen years, Kelly Hanlon has directed programming and operations for non-profits and for-profits in industries as diverse as education, economics and finance, music, community organizations, and the environment. At the University of Louisville, Hanlon earned her undergraduate degree in politics and psychology as a McConnell Scholar before pursuing graduate work in economics at the University of Delaware, where she wrote extensively about fiscal and monetary policy in the aftermath of the Great Depression. She currently serves on ...

Kevin T. Jackson (7)

Kevin T. Jackson, J.D., Ph.D., is Professor of Business Ethics and Law at Fordham University, in New York City. Professor Jackson has served on the faculties of Georgetown University, Princeton University, École des Ponts (Paris), Universite Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) and Peking University (China). Dr. Jackson is a Senior Fellow at The Witherspoon Institute (Princeton) and a Fellow at European SPES Institute (Leuven). He has authored several books, including Building Reputational Capital (Oxford University Press), Virtuosity in Business (University of Pennsylvania Press), Charting Global Responsibilities: Legal Philosophy ...

L. Joseph Hebert (7)

L. Joseph Hebert is Professor of Political Science and Leadership Studies at St. Ambrose University. He is co-editor of The Soul of Statesmanship: Shakespeare on Nature, Virtue, and Political Wisdom.

Luma Simms (7)

Luma Simms, a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, studies the life and thought of immigrants. Her essays, articles, and book reviews have appeared in a variety of publications including National Affairs, Law and Liberty, The Wall Street Journal, National Review, the Institute for Family Studies, and others.

Lyman Stone (7)

Lyman Stone is Chief Information Officer at the population consulting firm Demographic Intelligence, a Research Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies, and an Adjunct Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He, his wife, and their baby daughter live in Hong Kong.

Mary Rose Somarriba (7)

Mary Rose Somarriba, who completed a 2012 Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship on the connections between pornography and sex trafficking, is editor of Natural Womanhood and an associate editor for Verily Magazine. Find her at maryrosesomarriba.com.

Maggie Gallagher (7)

Maggie Gallagher is the Executive Director of BenedictInstitute.org

Michael Bradley (7)

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

Urban Hannon (7)

Urban Hannon’s writing has appeared in The Lamp, First Things, and other publications. He currently studies theology in Rome.

Stefan McDaniel (7)

Stefan McDaniel is a graduate student in political science at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Aaron Rothstein, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at the hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a fellow in bioethics and American democracy at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and he hosts the podcast Searching for Medicine's Soul.

Ana Maria Dumitru (6)

Ana Maria Dumitru, MD PhD is a resident physician in General Surgery at the University of California in San Diego. She obtained her PhD in Biochemistry from Dartmouth in 2017 and her MD from Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine in 2019.

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Ana Samuel, PhD, is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Notre Dame. She was the first executive director of the Witherspoon Institute in 2003. After getting involved in the promotion of the New Family Structures Study, she edited No Differences? How Children in Same-Sex Households Fare  and helped launch the pro-marriage organization CanaVox, where she continues to serve as Academic Director. Every summer, ...

Brandon McGinley (7)

Brandon McGinley is a writer based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Post, First Things, and The Lamp, among other venues. His first book, The Prodigal Church: Restoring Catholic Tradition in an Age of Deception, was released in June 2020.

Daniel Kuebler (6)

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

David Azerrad (6)

David Azerrad is the Director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for Principles and Politics and the AWC Family Foundation Fellow at The Heritage Foundation.

Deirdre Cooper (6)

Deirdre M. Cooper is the Public Policy Analyst for Texas Alliance for Life. Kody W. Cooper is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Service at the University of Tennessee at ...

Francis J. Beckwith (6)

Francis Joseph Beckwith is Professor of Philosophy & Church Studies at Baylor University, where he also serves as Affiliate Professor of Political Science and Associate Director of the Graduate Program in Philosophy. His books include Never Doubt Thomas: The Catholic Aquinas as Evangelical and Protestant (Baylor University Press, 2019) and Taking Rites Seriously: Law, Politics, and the Reasonableness of Faith (Cambridge University Press, 2015). His website is

Francis X. Maier (6)

Francis X. Maier is a senior fellow in Catholic studies at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and senior research fellow at the Notre Dame Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government.

Gerald R. McDermott (6)

Gerald McDermott teaches at Jerusalem Seminary and Reformed Episcopal Seminary. He has written and edited books on Jonathan Edwards, theology of religions, and theology of Israel. His newest book is A New History of Redemption: The Work of Jesus the Messiah Through the Millennia (Baker Academic). He and his wife live in Charlottesville, Virginia, with their three sons and daughters-in-law and twelve grandchildren.

J. Daryl Charles (7)

J. Daryl Charles is a senior fellow of the Center for Religion, Culture & Democracy and a contributing editor of Providence: A Journal of Christianity and American Foreign Policy. He is co-editor (with Eric Patterson) of Just War and Christian Traditions (University of Notre Dame Press, 2022), author of The Russian Invasion of Ukraine and the Ethics of War (Stone Tower Press, 2024), and most recently,

James Matthew Wilson (6)

James Matthew Wilson is the Cullen Foundation Chair in English Literature and the founding director of the MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Saint Thomas. The author of eleven books, his most recent collection of poems, The Strangeness of the Good (2020), won the poetry book of the year award from the Catholic Media Awards. The Dallas Institute of Humanities awarded him the Hiett Prize in 2017; Memoria College gave him the Parnassus Prize, in 2022; and the Conference on Christianity and Literature twice gave him the Lionel Basney Award. He serves as poet-in-residence of the Benedict XVI ...

Jason Morgan (6)

Jason Morgan, PhD (Japanese history) studies legal and political history and philosophy. He recently completed an MA in Philosophy (Christian Wisdom) at Holy Apostles College and Seminary. He has translated work by Hata Ikuhiko, Mizoguchi Yuzo, and Tanizaki Jun'ichiro, among many other Japanese scholars and authors. Morgan has published several books and numerous essays in Japanese. His English-language works have appeared in JAPAN Forward, Japan Review, the Journal of American-East Asian Relations, Scientia et Fides, Philosophy Now, The Remnant, Dao, New Oxford ...

Joseph Bottum (6)

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Patrick Deneen (6)

Patrick Deneen is Professor of Political Science and holds the David A. Potenziani Memorial College Chair of Constitutional Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

Philip Hawley, Jr. (6)

Philip Hawley, Jr., MD, is a hospice physician and former Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine. His novel, STIGMA, was published by HarperCollins.

Susan Hanssen (6)

Susan Hanssen is Associate Professor of History at the University of Dallas.

William Jeynes (6)

William Jeynes is Professor of Education at California State University, Long Beach. He graduated first in his class from Harvard University. He has served as a speaker and advisor for three presidential administrations, as well as for several G20 foreign governments and the European Union. Bill has 165+ academic publications, including 14 books.

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Aaron J. Walayat is an attorney based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He received his B.A. from Washington & Jefferson College and his J.D. from Emory University. His scholarly interests include philosophy of law, legal history, and law and religion and his publications have appeared in the Australian International Law Journal, the Pace Law Review, and the Journal of Chinese Humanities.

Angela Franks (6)

Angela Franks is a professor of theology at St. John's Seminary in Boston with specialties in the thought of John Paul II and Hans Urs von Balthasar. She has a doctorate in systematic theology at Boston College and an M.A. in philosophy from the Catholic University of America.

Christopher Wolfe (5)

Christopher Wolfe is Distinguished Research Scholar at the University of Dallas and Emeritus Professor at Marquette University. He is the author of The Rise of Modern Judicial Review, Judicial Activism, and Natural Law Liberalism.

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Collin Slowey is a writer living and working in Washington, DC. He hails from Bryan, TX and holds a degree from Baylor University, where he studied Political Science, Great Texts, and Film.

David A. Rahimi (5)

David A. Rahimi is a PhD student in Middle Eastern history at the University of Texas-Austin. He has an MA in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

David Andreas (5)

David Andreas was formerly assistant editor of Public Discourse.

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Edward Whelan is a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and holds EPPC’s Antonin Scalia Chair in Constitutional Studies.

Elizabeth Corey (6)

Elizabeth Corey is an associate professor of Political Science and Director of the Honors Program at Baylor University, in Waco, Texas. Her writing has appeared in a variety of popular and scholarly journals, including First Things, National Affairs and The Wall Street Journal, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. She received a bachelor’s in Classics from Oberlin College, and master’s and doctoral degrees in Art History and Political Science from Louisiana State University. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Institute on Religion and Public Life, publisher of First ...

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Gregory Brown is a research associate at the Witherspoon Institute.

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Howard Slugh is the General Counsel of the Jewish Coalition for Religious Liberty.

Jessica Hooten Wilson (5)

Jessica Hooten Wilson is the Fletcher Jones Chair of Great Books at Pepperdine University and the author of several books, most recently, Flannery O'Connor's Why Do the Heathen Rage?: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Work in Progress. She is also a Senior Fellow of the Trinity Forum.

John D. Wilsey (5)

John D. Wilsey is Associate Professor Church History and Philosophy at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and Research Fellow at the Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy.

Josh Craddock (7)

Josh Craddock is an affiliated scholar with the James Wilson Institute and the former editor-in-chief of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy. Prior to law school, he managed advocacy teams for several non-profit organizations at the United Nations and participated in negotiations on the Sustainable Development Goals.

Josh Herring (5)

Josh Herring is an Assistant Administrator for Thales Academy, and doctoral student at Faulkner University, and the host of The Optimistic Curmudgeon podcast. He tweets at @optimisticC3.  

Joshua Katz (5)

Joshua T. Katz is a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

Katy Faust (6)

Katy Faust is founder and president of the children's rights nonprofit Them Before Us. She helped pioneer CanaVox JV's natural law study groups for teens. Her third book, Pro-Child Politics, will be out September 2024.

Kody Wayne Cooper (6)

Kody W. Cooper is UC Foundation Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and 2023-2024 Visiting Fellow with the Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the coauthor of The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics: Political Theology, Natural Law, and the American Founding (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

Lee Trepanier (5)

Lee Trepanier is a Professor of Political Science at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. He is also editor of Lexington book series Politics, Literature, and Film.

Leonard Sax (5)

Leonard Sax MD PhD is a practicing family physician and the author of four books for parents: Why Gender Matters, Boys Adrift, Girls on the Edge, and The Collapse of Parenting. He lives with his wife and daughter in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Over the past 20 years, he has visited more than 420 schools worldwide. More information is online at 

Ligia Castaldi (5)

Ligia Castaldi is Professor of Law at Ave Maria School of Law. Her scholarship focuses on prenatal rights in international human rights law. Among others, she authored Abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Legal Impact of the American Convention on Human Rights, a book published by Notre Dame University Press in 2020. She teaches courses in International Law, Family Law, and Protection of Human Life in Law and Public Policy, among others. Professor Castaldi received LL.M. degrees from the University of ...

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Margaret Harper McCarthy is an Associate Professor of Theological Anthropology at the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family at The Catholic University of America, in Washington, D.C. She is the Editor of Humanum Review.

Matthew X. Wilson (5)

Matthew X. Wilson is deputy editor of Public Discourse. He graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University in 2024.

Micah Mattix (5)

Micah Mattix is chair of English at Regent University and a contributing editor at The Weekly Standard.

Matthew Schmitz (6)

Matthew Schmitz is senior editor of First Things. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Spectator, the Catholic Herald, and other publications. He holds an A.B. in English from Princeton University.

Paul Carrese (5)

Paul Carreseis director of the School of Civic & Economic Thought and Leadershipat Arizona State University; his most recent book is Democracy in Moderation: Montesquieu, Tocqueville, and Sustainable Liberalism (2016, paperback 2018).

Mark Gottlieb (5)

Rabbi Mark Gottlieb is Senior Director of the Tikvah Fund, Founding Dean of the Tikvah and Maimonides Scholars at Yale University, and a Trustee of the Hildebrand Project.

Rachel Sheffield (5)

Rachel Sheffield is a policy analyst in the DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society at The Heritage Foundation and co-author, with Robert Rector, of “Understanding Poverty in the United States.”

Robert L. McFarland (5)

Robert L. McFarland is an associate professor and associate dean at Faulkner University’s Thomas Goode Jones School of Law and co-editor with Adam J. MacLeod of Foundations of Law.

Scott Beauchamp (5)

Scott Beauchamp is a writer who lives in Maine. His work has appeared in The American Conservative, the Dublin Review, and The Paris Review, among other venues.

The CanaVox State and International Leaders (5)

CanaVox is an interfaith marriage and sexual-integrity movement founded by modern moms who haven’t forgotten timeless principles. Our monthly reading and discussion groups around the world inform discerning women and men with up-to-date research drawn from the social sciences, natural-law reasoning, and real-life personal accounts. Our group members practice the art of conversation to discover anew why marriage is such a masterpiece of society and sexual integrity so enriching for all.

Thomas F. Farr (5)

Thomas Farr is President of the Religious Freedom Institute. A leading authority on international religious freedom, Dr. Farr served for 28 years in the U.S. Army and the U.S. Foreign Service. In 1999 he became the founding director of the State Department's Office of International Religious Freedom (IRF). He subsequently directed the Witherspoon Institute's IRF Task Force, was a member of the Chicago World Affairs Council’s Task Force on Religion and Foreign Policy, taught at the National Defense University, and served on the Secretary of State’s IRF working group. From 2007 – 2018, Dr. Farr was Associate Professor of the Practice ...

Timothy P. O'Malley (5)

Timothy P. O'Malley is a faculty member at the University of Notre Dame in the McGrath Institute for Church Life. He is the recent author of Off the Hook: God, Love, Dating, and Marriage in a Hookup World.

William Doino Jr. (5)

William Doino Jr. is a researcher and writer specializing in religion, history, and politics. He is the lead contributor to The Pius War: Responses to the Critics of Pius XII; and is currently working on a book on the importance of inter-faith relations.

William J. Haun (5)

William J. Haun is a lawyer in Washington, D.C.

Adam M. Carrington (4)

Adam M. Carrington is an Assistant Professor of Politics at Hillsdale College. At Hillsdale, he teaches courses on Constitutional law, Politics & Literature, and American political institutions.

Adeline A. Allen (4)

Adeline A. Allen is a contributing writer for Public Discourse, Professor of Law at Trinity Law School, and Associate Fellow at The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity. Her scholarship focuses on the natural law foundations of contract law and the family, the view of the human person in bioethics, and the nature of contracting. She was a 2017–18 Visiting Fellow at the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. Some of her scholarship and writings have been published on Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, Public Discourse, First Things, Church Life Journal, ...

Andy Smarick (4)

Andy Smarick is Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Previously he was a Morgridge Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and served as president of the Maryland State Board of Education. He has worked at the White House as an aide in the Domestic Policy Counsel and was a deputy assistant secretary at the US Department of Education. Additionally, he was the deputy commissioner of education in New Jersey and a legislative assistant at the US House of Representatives. Andy has authored or edited four books. He earned ...

Ben R. Crenshaw (4)

Ben R. Crenshaw is a graduate of Taylor University (2011) and Denver Seminary (2017, 2018), where he earned a double masters. He will be pursuing a PhD in Politics at the Van Andel Graduate School of Statesmanship at Hillsdale College starting August 2019. He writes at benrcrenshaw.com.

Bradford Littlejohn (7)

Brad Littlejohn is a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where he researches and writes on how Christian and modern notions of liberty intersect. He also serves as President of the Davenant Institute.

Brian Bird (4)

Brian Bird is a lecturer at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia. He is also a research fellow with the North America Action Team at the Religious Freedom Institute (Washington, D.C.). Before joining Allard Law, Brian was a 2019-2020 John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. He also previously clerked for judges of the Supreme Court of British Columbia and for Justice Andromache Karakatsanis at the Supreme Court of Canada. Brian completed his doctorate in law at McGill University ...

Brian Jones (4)

Brian Jones is the Coordinator of Liturgy at St. Anthony of Padua in the Woodlands, Texas. He is a philosophy PhD student at the University of St. Thomas in Houston. His works have been published in New Blackfriars, The Federalist, The American Conservative, and Strong Towns.

Byron Johnson (5)

Byron Johnson is Distinguished Professor of the Social Sciences at Baylor University. He is the founding director of the Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion (ISR) as well as director of the Program on Prosocial Behavior. He is a leading authority on the scientific study of religion, the efficacy of faith-based organizations, and criminal justice. He has been the principal investigator on grants from private foundations as well as the Department of Justice, Department of Labor, Department of Defense, National Institutes of Health, and the United States Institute for Peace. He is the author of more than 250 articles and a ...

Charles K. Bellinger (4)

Charles K. Bellinger is an associate professor of Theology and Ethics at the Brite Divinity School at Texas Christian University. He received his PhD in Theology, Ethics, and Culture from the University of Virginia. He is the author of Jesus ...

Chris R. Armstrong (4)

Chris R. Armstrong was Professor of Church History at Bethel Seminary (MN) from 2005-2013 and the Founding Director of Opus: The Art of Work at Wheaton College (IL) from 2014-2018. He is the Senior editor ...

Clara Piano (4)

Clara received her Ph.D. from George Mason University in 2021 and is currently an Assistant Professor of Economics at Austin Peay State University. Her primary areas of research are family economics, law and economics, and public choice. Beyond economics, Clara enjoys reading and discussing Catholic social thought.

Cole Aronson (4)

Cole S. Aronson writes from Jerusalem.

Cory D. Higdon (4)

Cory Higdon is a Ph.D. student at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and serves as the Director of Theological Research in the Office of the President.

Daniel J. Mahoney (4)

Daniel J. Mahoney is professor emeritus at Assumption University and Senior Writer at Law and Liberty. His latest book, The Statesman as Thinker: Portraits of Greatness, Courage, and Moderation, will be published by Encounter Books in May 2022. He is presently completing a book entitled

Daniel Mark (4)

Daniel Mark is an assistant professor of political science at Villanova University. He served for four years on the nine-member, bipartisan US Commission on International Religious Freedom, most recently as chairman. He was appointed to the commission by then-Speaker of the House John Boehner in May, 2014, and reappointed in May, 2016, by Speaker Paul Ryan. At Villanova, Dr. Mark is a faculty associate of the Ryan Center for the Study of Free Institutions and the Public Good, and he holds the rank of battalion professor in Villanova’s Navy Reserve Officers’ Training Corps unit. Dr. Mark is a fellow of the ...

Dixie Lane (4)

Dixie Dillon Lane is an American historian, an associate editor at Hearth & Field, a contributing editor at Front Porch Republic, and a mother of four. Her book, Skipping School: Finding the Roots of Modern Homeschooling in the American Past, is under contract with Eerdmans. You can follow her work through her newsletter, The Hollow, or on X @DixieDillonLane.

Dwight Lindley (4)

Dwight Lindley is an associate professor of English at Hillsdale College in Michigan. He has published articles on George Eliot, Jane Austen, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Virginia Woolf, John Henry Newman, and others. He lives in Hillsdale with his wife, Emily, and their nine children.

Elise Italiano (4)

Elise Italiano teaches bioethics in Washington, DC, and is a contributor to Breaking Through: Catholic Women Speak for Themselves, edited by Helen Alvaré.

Elizabeth Kirk (4)

Elizabeth Kirk serves as Director of the Center for Law & the Human Person at the Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law, where she also teaches in the area of law & the family. She also serves as an associate scholar for the Charlotte Lozier Institute, with a special interest in adoption law and policy.

Frank DeVito (4)

Frank DeVito is an attorney currently serving as Counsel at the Napa Legal Institute. His work has previously been published in several publications, including The American Conservative, the Federalist, and First Things Online. He lives in eastern Pennsylvania with his wife and children. The views expressed in this article are those of the author and not necessarily his employer.

Greg Pfundstein (6)

Greg Pfundstein is President of the Chiaroscuro Foundation and a Board Member of the National Abstinence Education Association.

Harold Cassidy (4)

Harold Cassidy is the founding partner of The Cassidy Law Firm and a former member of the New Jersey Bioethics Commission.

Harold James (5)

Harold James is Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He is a Senior Fellow of the Witherspoon Institute, ...

John Haldane (4)

John Haldane is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs in the University of St. Andrews, and a Senior Fellow of the Witherspoon Institute. His latest books ...

John Thomas (4)

John Thomas is a freelance writer. His writing has appeared at Mere Orthodoxy, Christianity Today, and Desiring God. He writes regularly at medium.com/soli-deo-gloria.

Joseph G. Trabbic (4)

Joseph G. Trabbic is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Ave Maria University. His interests include Aquinas, continental philosophy, philosophy of religion, metaphysics, and political philosophy. He has published on these topics in various scholarly journals. He is also a regular contributor to Thomistica, a site for the academic study of Aquinas.

Jon Shields (4)

Jon A. Shields is an associate professor of government at Claremont McKenna College.

Julian Vigo (4)

Julian Vigo is an independent scholar and filmmaker who specializes in ethnography, political philosophy and postcolonial theory. Her latest book is "Earthquake in Haiti: The Pornography of Poverty and the Politics of Development" (2015). You can follow her on Twitter at @lubelluledotcom

Karen Swallow Prior (4)

Karen Swallow Prior, Ph. D., is a reader, writer, and professor. She is the author of The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis (Brazos, 2023); On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books (Brazos 2018); Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist (Thomas Nelson, 2014); and Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me (T. S. Poetry Press, 2012). She is co-editor of Cultural Engagement: A Crash Course in Contemporary Issues (Zondervan 2019) ...

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Kim R. Holmes (4)

Kim R. Holmes is the executive vice president at The Heritage Foundation. Previously Heritage's vice president for foreign and defense policy studies, he also served as assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs from 2002-2005. His most recent book is The Closing of the Liberal Mind.

Mark Dooley (4)

Dr Mark Dooley is an Irish philosopher, journalist, and widely published author. He is the former John Henry Newman Scholar in Theology at University College Dublin, where he also taught philosophy for ten years. From 2003-2018, he was a columnist with the Sunday Independent and Irish Daily Mail. His books include The Politics of Exodus, The Philosophy of Derrida, Roger Scruton: The Philosopher on Dover Beach,

Mathew Lu (4)

Mathew Lu is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN.

Matthew A. Shadle (4)

Matthew A. Shadle is Associate Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia. His book Interrupting Capitalism: Catholic Social Thought and the Economy was published by Oxford University Press in 2018.

Matthew Kuchem (4)

Matthew Kuchem is a former political science professor working in Washington, D.C. He taught political philosophy and American politics at Bethel University (St. Paul), DePauw University, and Indiana University, Bloomington.

Maureen L. Condic (4)

Dr. Maureen L. Condic is an Associate Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy at the University of Utah, currently conducting research on human stem cells.

Michael Hayes (4)

Michael Hayes is a lawyer in Kansas City. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy and J.D. from the University of Kansas, where he taught philosophy and western civilization. He occasionally writes on morality, law, politics, and religion.

Michael Lucchese (4)

Michael Lucchese is the founder of Pipe Creek Consulting, an associate editor of Law & Liberty, and a contributing editor to Providence.

Marianna Orlandi (4)

Marianna Orlandi received her Ph.D. in Law from the University of Padua, Italy, and from the University of Innsbruck, Austria. Prior to moving to Texas, she was a 2019-2020 James Madison Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. She was admitted to the Italian bar in 2015 after graduating magna cum laude from the University of Padua. She practiced as a criminal lawyer in Milan and worked in the United States as a policy research analyst. ​ Since 2020, she directs the academic programming of the Austin Institute, where she contributes both as a ...

Rev. Nicanor Pier Giorgio Austriaco, O.P. (4)

Rev. Nicanor Pier Giorgio Austriaco, O.P., currently serves as Professor of Biology and of Theology at Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island. He is also a research fellow at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, Philippines, and founding director of ThomisticEvolution.org. His NIH-funded laboratory at Providence College uses yeast as a model organism to interrogate human disease. Fr. Austriaco is a bioethics consultant for the Catholic bishops’ conferences of the United States and of the Philippines. Fr. Austriaco completed his Bachelor ...

O. Carter Snead (5)

Professor Carter Snead is the William P. and Hazel B. White Director of the Center for Ethics and Culture, Professor of Law in the Law School, and Concurrent Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. Professor Snead is one of the world’s leading experts on public bioethics – the governance of science, medicine, and technology in the name of ethical goods. He is the editor of two book series with the University of Notre Dame Press, including “Catholic Ideas for a Secular World.” He has advised officials in all three branches of the federal government on matters ...

Paul Coleman (5)

Paul Coleman serves as Executive Director of ADF International from its headquarters in Vienna, Austria. ADF International is a legal advocacy organization that protects fundamental freedoms and promotes the inherent dignity of all people. Follow Paul on Twitter at @Paul_ADFIntl.  

Paul Sullins (4)

The Rev. D. Paul Sullins, Ph.D., is Research Professor of Sociology at the Catholic University of America and Senior Research Associate of the Ruth Institute. Formerly Episcopalian, Fr. Sullins is a married Catholic priest with an inter-racial family of three children, two adopted.

Peter Meilaender (4)

Peter C. Meilaender is Professor of Political Science and Dean of Religion, Humanities, and Global Studies at Houghton University, where he also directs the Kingdom Initiative and Center for Global Humanities. He teaches widely in politics and the humanities. Meilaender has been a Visiting Research Fellow at Biola University's Center for Christian Thought and a Visiting Professor at AEI's Initiative on Faith & Public Life. His research interests include immigration and citizenship; loyalty and patriotism; and politics and literature, with a special focus on the literature of Switzerland and Austria. ...

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Rebekah Curtis (4)

Rebekah Curtis is coauthor of LadyLike: Living Biblically (Concordia 2015) and has written for a number of magazines, websites, and books.

Robert C. Koons (4)

Robert C. Koons is professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of The Atlas of Reality (with Tim Pickavance), and co-editor of Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science (with Simpson and Teh).

Stephen Bainbridge (4)

Stephen Bainbridge writes and teaches about corporate law and governance, Catholic Social Thought and the law, and law and finance.

Thomas Hibbs (4)

Thomas Hibbs is the J. Newton Rayzor Sr. Professor of Philosophy and Dean Emeritus at Baylor University. His writing can be found here.

Thomas Joseph White, O.P. (4)

Thomas Joseph White, O.P., grew up in southeast Georgia, and grew up in an inter-religious household. He studied at Brown University and Oxford university, and entered the Order of Preachers in 2003. He is the director of the Thomistic Institute at the Angelicum in Rome and a professor of theology. Among his books are included Wisdom in the Face of Modernity: A Study in Thomistic Natural Theology, The Incarnate Lord: A Thomistic Study in Christology, and The Light of Christ: An Introduction to Catholicism. In 2011 he was appointed an ordinary member of the Pontifical ...

Tim Bradley (4)

Tim Bradley is a research associate at the Charlotte Lozier Institute.

Timothy Hsiao (4)

Timothy Hsiao is Instructor of Philosophy at Grantham University and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Park University and Johnson County Community College. His website is http://timhsiao.org.

Timothy Shah (4)

Timothy Samuel Shah is Visiting Assistant Professor of Government at Georgetown University, and Associate Director of the Religious Freedom Projectat Georgetown’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs.

Trey Dimsdale (4)

Trey Dimsdale holds degrees in law, theology, and ethics. He is the executive director of the Center for Religion, Culture & Democracy, an initiative of First Liberty Institute, and is an associate fellow with the Centre for Enterprise, Markets, and Ethics in Oxford, U.K.

Valerie Huber (4)

Valerie Huber is the President and CEO of Ascend (formerly known as the National Abstinence Education Association).

Wilfred M. McClay (4)

Wilfred McClay is the Victor Davis Hanson Chair of Classical History and Western Civilization, and Professor of History at Hillsdale College. He is the author of The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America and Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story.

Xavier Symons (4)

Xavier is a bioethicist and Director of the Plunkett Centre for Ethics at the Australian Catholic University. His research interests include ethical issues at the beginning and end of life, conscientious objection, ethical issues in aged care, and the philosophy of well-being. He has been a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard and holds degrees from the University of Sydney, the University of Oxford, and the Australian Catholic University.

Yuval Levin (5)

Yuval Levin is director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute and the editor of National Affairs.    

Abdullah Saeed (3)

Abdullah Saeed is the Sultan of Oman Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia, where he is also Director of the National Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies and Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Law. He holds a Ph.D. in Islamic Studies and an M.A. in Applied Linguistics from the University of Melbourne, Australia. His publications include Freedom of Religion, Apostasy, and Islam, co-authored with Hassan Saeed, and Interpreting the Qur'an: Towards a Contemporary Approach.

Abigail Favale (4)

Abigail Favale, Ph.D., is a writer and professor in the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame. A Catholic convert with an academic background in gender studies, Abigail writes and speaks regularly on topics related to women and gender from a Catholic perspective. Abigail's memoir, Into the Deep: An Unlikely Catholic Conversion, traces her journey from evangelicalism to postmodern feminism to Catholicism. Her latest book is ...

Andre Van Mol (3)

André Van Mol, MD is a board-certified family physician in private practice. He is the co-chair of the American College of Pediatricians' Committee on Adolescent Sexuality, and a blogger and media spokesperson for the Christian Medical & Dental Associations. He and his wife Evelyn are foster and adoptive parents.

Andrew Koppelman (3)

Andrew Koppelman is John Paul Stevens Professor of Law, Professor (by courtesy) of Political Science, and Philosophy Department Affiliated Faculty at Northwestern University. He received the Walder Award for Research Excellence from Northwestern, the Hart-Dworkin award in legal philosophy from the Association of American Law Schools, and the Edward S. Corwin Prize from the American Political Science Association. His scholarship focuses on issues at the intersection of law and political philosophy. He has written more than 100 scholarly articles and seven books, most recently Gay Rights ...

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Dr. Anthony McCarthy is the author of Ethical Sex: Sexual Choices and Their Nature and Meaning (Fidelity Press, 2016). He lives in London and lectures on moral philosophy and bioethics both in and outside the United Kingdom.

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Antony Davies is the Milton Friedman Distinguished Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education, and professor of economics at Duquesne University. He is author of Understanding Statistics (Cato Institute), and co-author of Principles of Microeconomics (Cognella), and Cooperation & Coercion (ISI Books). He is also co-host of the weekly podcast Words & Numbers. Davies has authored hundreds of op-eds appearing in, among others, the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, New York Post, and Washington Post. In addition to his academic work, Dr. Davies was Associate Producer at the Moving Pictures Institute, Chief Financial Officer at Parabon Computation, ...

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Brad Vermurlen is a research associate in the sociology department at the University of Texas at Austin and a generations in dialogue fellow at the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at the University of Southern California. His website is www.bradvermurlen.com.

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Bradley W. Miller is an associate professor of law at the University of Western Ontario and a 2012-2013 Visiting Fellow in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. He is a co-editor of The Challenge of Originalism: Theories of Constitutional Interpretation (Cambridge University Press, 2011). He holds a D.Phil. in law from Oxford University, an LL.M. from the University of Edinburgh, and an LL.B. and B.Com. from the University of British Columbia.

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Brandon James Smith is a lawyer in Washington, DC, and an adjunct professor at American University. 

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Catherine Ruth Pakaluk is an American economist and associate professor at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Mrs. Pakaluk is author of the acclaimed ethnography Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defining the Birth Dearth (Regnery, 2024), a multidisciplinary account of American women choosing to have large families against the global trend to sub-replacement fertility. Her work has been featured in Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, Slate, and more. She holds a doctorate in economics from Harvard University. The mother of eight children, she is married to American philosopher Michael Pakaluk. They split their ...

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Caitlin La Ruffa served as Executive Director of the Love and Fidelity Network from 2011 to 2016. She is a frequent speaker, commentator and writer on marriage and sexual integrity. She has been published in The Public Discourse, Mercatornet, AltCatholicah, and Verily Magazine. She has also been featured in The New York Times, National Review Online, the Christian Broadcast Network, the National Catholic Register, and WORLD Magazine. Caitlin graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with a B.A. in Politics.

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Carlos Flores is Senior Social Policy Editor of The Millennial Review. He studied philosophy at UC Santa Barbara, where he graduated with honors.

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Cole S. Aronson writes from Jerusalem.

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Christian Sahner, a Rhodes Scholar, is presently a doctoral candidate in History at Princeton University. In May 2009, he worked with Tariq Ramadan on a symposium on religion and politics at the University of Oxford.

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Daniel Lipinski represented the Third District of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2005 to 2021. He was known as a highly knowledgeable and effective lawmaker who worked to bring people together across the aisle to solve problems, enabling him to author 20 laws in a wide variety of issue areas. Lipinski served on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee as well as the Science, Space, and Technology Committee. He was previously an assistant professor of Political Science (University of Notre Dame; University of Tennessee) after earning his Ph.D. in American Politics from Duke University. He is currently president of ...

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Daniel K. Williams is a professor of history at the University of West Georgia. He is the author of God’s Own ...

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Daniel Moody is a philosopher specializing in the relationships between bodies, minds, words, and laws. He is the author of The Flesh Made Word (No Ordinary Lie). He lives in Dorset, England. Follow him on Twitter @DanielMoodyFMW.

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Darren Geist is a Visiting Lecturer at Princeton University and a practicing attorney. He is a happily married father of four children.

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David L. Tubbs is a Fellow of the Witherspoon Institute and Associate Professor of Politics at The King’s College in New York City. 

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Daniel Patrick Moloney, Ph.D., a former post-doctoral fellow at the Witherspoon Institute, was until recently Senior Policy Analyst in Religion and Civil Society at the Heritage Foundation.

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Elizabeth Regnerus is a doctoral student in Philosophy at Baylor University and an alumna of the University of Dallas. She works on virtue theory, moral psychology, and bioethics.

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Felix James Miller is co-host of the podcast Truth, Beauty, Comics and Contributing Editor at The European Conservative. He lives with his wife and two sons in the shadows of the Adirondack mountains. Twitter: @FelixJMiller    

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Frank Schubert is the founder and Chief Strategist of Inspiration Strategies. He has twice been named America's top public affairs professional. Schubert has managed over 50 statewide campaigns in over a dozen states, winning over 80% of the time. These include campaigns in support of traditional marriage, life, and religious liberty issues.

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Gabrielle Speach is a 2012 graduate of Notre Dame’s Program of Liberal Studies, Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude. A former ISI Fellow and a recipient of the Sycamore Trust Leadership Award, she was previously editor-in-chief of The Irish Rover. Speach also received a University Summer Research Grant for the study of life issues, and was awarded the Brother John LaVelle, C.S.C. Scholarship for chairing Notre Dame Right to Life’s Intercollegiate Conference and Spring Lecture Series.

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George Yancey is professor of sociology at Baylor University. He has written over 30 peer review articles and over a dozen books on topics such as interracial romance, multiracial congregations, racial identity, atheists, cultural progressives, anti-Christian hostility, academic bias and media bias.

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Grace Emily Stark is the Editor of Natural Womanhood, and a freelance writer and speaker with published work and media appearances in multiple outlets. She is a current Ramsey Institute Fellow at the Center for Bioethics & Culture, and a former Novak Alumni Fund Journalism fellowship recipient. Mrs. Stark holds a M.A. in Bioethics & Health Policy from Loyola University Chicago, and is certified to teach the Sympto-Thermal Method of Natural Family Planning via the Couple to Couple League. She resides in Texas with her husband and their three small children.

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Graham Dennis is the Dean of Students at Veritas Academy, in Leola Pennsylvania. He graduated with a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of South Carolina, and an M.A. in Philosophy from Boston College.

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Gabriel Schoenfeld, a senior fellow at the Niskanen Center, is the author of Necessary Secrets: National Security, the Media, and the Rule of Law.

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Haley Stewart is the Editor of Word on Fire Spark, an imprint for young readers, and the author of The Grace of Enough, Jane Austen's Genius Guide to Life, and The Sister Seraphina Mysteries. In her spare time, she maintains a popular Substack and occasionally leads pilgrimages. Haley and her husband have four children ages 5-14.

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James Hankins is Professor of History at Harvard University. He is the founder and General Editor of the I Tatti Renaissance Library. His Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy has just been published by the Belknap Press of Harvard University.

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Ismail Royer is an American convert to Islam and Research and Program Associate at the Religious Freedom Institute (RFI), a non-profit organization based in Washington, DC. His writing has appeared in publications such as the Washington Post, Journal of Religion and Society, Public Discourse, Detroit Free Press, and Muslim Matters.

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Ivana Greco is an attorney, homemaker, and homeschooling mother. You can read more of her work at her newsletter, The Home Front, and follow her on Twitter @IvanaDGreco.         

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Jakub Grygiel is a professor of politics at The Catholic University of America (Washington, DC), a senior advisor at The Marathon Initiative, and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution. In 2017-2018 he was a Senior Advisor in the Office of Policy Planning at the Department of State. Previously, he was an associate professor at SAIS-Johns Hopkins University in Washington DC. He is the author of Return of the Barbarians (Cambridge University Press, 2018),

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James M. Patterson is an Associate Professor of Politics at Ave Maria University, where he is also Chair of the Politics Department. He is a research fellow at the Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy, and he is president of the Ciceronian Society.

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Jameson W. Doig is Professor of Politics and Public Affairs Emeritus at Princeton University and author of “Same-sex Marriage” in American Governance, ed. Stephen L Schechter (Macmillan, 2014).

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Jay W. Richards, Ph.D., O.P., is an Assistant Research Professor in the Busch School of Business at The Catholic University of America, Executive Editor of The Stream, and a Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute. He is author or editor of a dozen books including the New York Times bestsellers.

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Justin D. Barnard is associate professor of philosophy and associate dean for Intellectual Discipleship at Union University.

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Jeremy Neill is an assistant professor of philosophy at Houston Baptist University.

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Jesse Smith is a professor of sociology at Benedictine College. His research is focused on topics such as transmission of faith in families and the role of religion in American political polarization.

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A graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School, Joel Alicea practices law in Washington, DC.

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John G. Grove is the managing editor of Law & Liberty.

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John M. Smoot served as a trial court judge of Boston’s Probate and Family Court from 1990 to 2012. He currently serves as a mediator at Boston Area Mediation and blogs at Peter’s Bench.

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Jonathan Den Hartog is an American historian, with a focus on the American Revolution and New Nation. He is the author of Patriotism and Piety: Federalist Politics and Religious Struggle in the New American Nation and co-editor of the volume Disestablishment and Religious Dissent: Church-State Relations in the American States, 1776-1833 He is currently professor of history and Chair ...

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Josh Hawley (R) is a United States Senator from Missouri.

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Joshua Hren, novelist and critic, is founder of Wiseblood Books and co-founder of the MFA at the University of St. Thomas. He regularly publishes essays and poems in such journals as The Los Angeles Review of Books and First Things, America, National Review, Public Discourse, and The Hedgehog Review. Joshua is the author of ten books, including the novels Infinite Regress and Blue Walls Falling Down; the short story collections This Our Exile and In the Wine Press; the book of poems Last Things, First Things, & Other Lost Causes; ...

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Julia D. Hejduk is the Reverend Jacob Beverly Stiteler Professor of Classics and Associate Dean of the Honors College at Baylor University. Her most recent book is The God of Rome: Jupiter in Augustan Poetry (Oxford 2020).

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Kai Weiss is the Research Coordinator of the Austrian Economics Center, a board member at the Friedrich A. v. Hayek Institute, and a graduate student in politics at Hillsdale College.

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Korey D. Maas is an associate professor of history at Hillsdale College.

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Louis Brown is the Executive Director of the Christ Medicus Foundation, a Catholic health care nonprofit dedicated to sharing the love of God in health care. An attorney, he formerly served at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and on Capitol Hill as a Congressional staffer to a Member of Congress.

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Luis Tellez is President of the Witherspoon Institute. He is the author of Integrating God, Love, and Law Into Your Life.

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Matthew D. Wright, Ph.D., is an associate professor of government in the Torrey Honors College at Biola University. He is the author of A Vindication of Politics: On the Common Good and Human Flourishing (UP Kansas).

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Mary Graw Leary is an associate professor in the Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America.

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Nathan J. Beacom is a writer living in Des Moines, Iowa.

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Nathan Smith, PhD economist, is a writer living in Little Rock, Arkansas. He is the author of several books, including Principles of a Free Society, Complexity, Competition and Growth, and Schiller: The Monks' Goat, and many articles.

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Nathaniel Bruno is senior counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom.

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Oren Cass is the executive director of American Compass and author of The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America (2018). He is a contributing opinion writer for the Financial Times and his work also appears regularly in publications including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.

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Patrick Garry is a professor of law at the University of South Dakota and is the author of numerous books, including The False Promise of Big Government: How Washington Helps the Rich and Hurts the Poor (ISI Books), Conservatism Redefined: A Creed for the Poor and Disadvantaged (Encounter Books), Limited Government and the Bill of Rights (University of Missouri Press), and Wrestling With God: The Courts' Tortuous Treatment of Religion (Catholic University of America Press).

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Paul Benjamin Linton is an attorney in private practice who specializes in state and federal constitutional law, legislative consulting and scholarly writing. He has published twenty law review articles and several articles in journals of opinion, as well as a treatise on abortion under state constitutions.

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Paul Rowan Brian is a freelance journalist who writes on culture, religion and politics. You can find him on Twitter@paulrbrian or visit his website at www.paulrbrian.com.

Philip Bess (3)

Philip Bess is a professor of architecture at The University of Notre Dame.

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Philip Jeffery is deputy opinion editor at Newsweek. His writing has also appeared in the Washington Free Beacon, American Compass, the Lamp, the Catholic Herald, First Things, the Weekly Standard, and elsewhere. Follow him on Twitter @philipljeffery.

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Phillip Dolitsky is a Strategic Advisor at The Philos Project where he works on issues related to foreign policy, Israel advocacy and combatting antisemitism. He is also a writer on military strategy, ethics and geopolitics. You can find him on Twitter @phillyd97 or email him at pdolitsky@gmail.com.

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Dr. R. Albert Mohler Jr. serves as president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary  Dr. Mohler has been recognized by such influential publications as Time and Christianity Today as a leader among American evangelicals. In fact, Time.com called him the “reigning intellectual of the evangelical movement in the U.S.” In addition to his presidential duties, Dr. Mohler hosts two programs: “The Briefing,” a daily analysis ...

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Rachel Roth Aldhizer is a 2024 Robert Novak Journalism Fellow. Her reporting has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, National Review, First Things Magazine, and other publications.

Ralph Hancock (3)

Ralph Hancock is Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University, where he teaches the tradition of political philosophy as well as contemporary political theory. He is the author of Calvin and the Foundations of Modern Politics (Saint Augustine’s Press, 2011) as well as The Responsibility of Reason: Theory and Practice in a Liberal-Democratic Age (Rowman & Littlefield, 2011). He is also the editor of America, the West, and Liberal Education (Rowman & Littlefield, 1999) and (with Gary Lambert) of The Legacy of ...

Raymond Hain (3)

Raymond Hain is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Associate Director of the Humanities Program at Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island. He writes and teaches on topics connected to ethics and culture, and is the editor most recently of Beyond the Self: Virtue Ethics and the Problem of Culture.

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Rich Danker is Economics Director at American Principles Project, a Washington policy organization.

Richard Stith (3)

Richard Stith, who was for forty-one years a member of the teaching faculty at Valparaiso University Law School, received both his law degree and a doctorate in ethics from Yale University. Professor Stith has served as director of the Program in Biomedical Ethics at St. Louis University School of Medicine and has taught and published on comparative law and legal philosophy in Spain, Germany, India, China, Ukraine, Chile and Mexico. In 2001, he became the first U.S. professor to be designated by the European Commission as teacher of a “Jean Monnet Module” on the law of the European Union.

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Robert Bellafiore is Research Manager at the Foundation for American Innovation. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the American Conservative, City Journal, and elsewhere.

Russ White (3)

Russ White is a well-known voice in computer networking, where he advocates for simplicity, privacy, and the decentralized Internet. He co-hosts the Hedge and the History of Networking podcasts, serves on the Internet Architecture Board and in a leadership role in the FR Routing open-source community. Russ has co-authored many software patents, books, and hours of video training in computer networks. He holds a Ph.D. in apologetics and culture from Southeast Baptist Theological Seminary, an MACM from Shepherds Theological Seminary, and an MSIT from Capella University. Russ recently finished Unintended Dystopia, a book about social media’s ...

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Ryan Shinkel is a historical researcher and a graduate student at St. John's College in Annapolis, MD.

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Samantha Schroeder is the Director of Communications at the Future Symphony Institute, a new and entirely independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit think tank dedicated to classical music.

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Tal Fortgang is a lawyer in Washington, D.C.

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Teresa Collett is Professor of Law at University of St. Thomas School of Law.

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Thomas Haine, a graduate of Princeton University and Washington University School of Law, is a lawyer.

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Todd Hartch is the author of The Rebirth of Latin American Christianity and other books on religion in Latin America. He teaches History and World Christianity at Eastern Kentucky University.

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William Gonch is Assistant Professor and Director of Literature at Ave Maria University. He earned his Ph.D. in English from the University of Maryland, College Park, and his M.A. in Creative Writing from Temple University, and has been the Cornerstone Fellow in English at The Catholic University of America. His research explores twentieth-century fiction that sits between religious and secular discourses.

Yoram Hazony (3)

Yoram Hazony is Chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation and author of Conservatism: A Rediscovery (Regnery, 2022).

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A. M. Juster is the author of eleven books of original and translated poetry. Next year he will publish his first children's book, Girlatee, with Paul Dry Books, and W. W. Norton will publish his translation of Petrarch's Canzoniere.

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Aaron Alexander Zubia is Assistant Professor of Humanities at the Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education at the University of Florida. He is the author of The Political Thought of David Hume: The Origins of Liberalism and the Modern Political Imagination. His writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Law & Liberty, First Things, National Review, Washington Examiner, Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy, and Hume Studies. In 2019-20, he was the Thomas W. Smith Research Associate in the James Madison Program ...

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Aaron Kheriaty is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where he directs EPPC’s program in Bioethics and American Democracy. He is currently Chief of Psychiatry & Ethics at Doc1 Health and Chief of Medical Ethics at The Unity Project, and a Senior Fellow and Director of the Health and Human Flourishing Program at the Zephyr Institute. Dr. Kheriaty ...

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Abigail Wilkinson Miller writes from northern New York state, where she lives with her husband and son. She holds degrees from the University of Notre Dame, the Catholic University of America, and Christendom College.

Anne Hendershott (2)

Anne Hendershott is Professor of Urban Studies at The King's College. Her articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal and National Review. In addition, she has written several books, including The Politics of Abortion, Moving for Work, and The Reluctant Caregivers. Currently she is co-authoring a book entitled Beyond the Catholic Culture Wars with TKC alum Christopher White. Dr. Hendershott received her B.A. and M.S. degrees from Central Connecticut State University and her Ph.D. in Sociology from Kent State University.

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Alan J. Hawkins, PhD, is a professor in the School of Family Life at  Brigham University in Provo, Utah. He earned a PhD in Human Development and Family Studies at Pennsylvania State University in 1990. Professor Hawkins’ scholarship and outreach efforts focus on educational interventions and policies to help couples form and sustain healthy marriages and relationships and to help fathers be more involved in the lives of their children. He has consulted with state and federal policy efforts to strengthen couple relationships. In 2002-2003, he was a visiting scholar with the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE), Administration for ...

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Alexandra Hudson is a writer, speaker, and the founder and curator of Civic Renaissance. She was named the 2020 Novak Journalism Fellow, and contributes to Fox News, CBS News, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, TIME Magazine, POLITICO Magazine, and Newsweek. She earned a master's degree in public policy at the London School of Economics as a Rotary Scholar. An adjunct professor at the Indiana University Lilly School of Philanthropy, she lives in Indianapolis with her husband and children.

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Alexis Carré is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard University. His work deals with war and liberal democracy. He was awarded the 2021 Raymond Aron Prize for research for his dissertation, completed at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, entitled War and Law: The Refounding of Liberalism Against the Conservative Revolution in Leo Strauss and Raymond Aron.

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Alfred Kentigern Siewers is Associate Professor of English at Bucknell University and William E. Simon Visiting Fellow in Religion and Public Life in the James Madison Program, Princeton University. He is a member of the lesser clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia. His views are his own.

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Alicja A. Gescinska, PhD was the 2013-2014 William E. Simon Postdoctoral Research Associate in Religion and Public Life at the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University and ...

Allen Porter (2)

Allen Porter is a philosopher with wide-ranging interests. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Florida’s Hamilton Center, and he will assume the position of Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Center for Arts and Letters at the University of Austin in July 2025. His research focuses on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, phenomenology, and the history of philosophy, as well as contemporary politics, bioethics, and issues of transhumanism and posthumanism. He is currently editing a volume on Phenomenology and Posthumanisms for Springer Nature’s Philosophical Studies ...

Andrew Busch (2)

Andrew E. Busch is Crown Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College, where he teaches courses on American politics and government. He has authored, co-authored, or edited nearly two dozen books, most recently The Elephant in the Room: Donald J. Trump and the Future of the Republican Party edited with William G. Mayer (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022). He received his B.A. from the University of Colorado-Boulder and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Government from the University of Virginia. Busch lives with his wife, Melinda, in Rialto, California, and has three grown ...

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Andrew Haines is a doctoral candidate in the School of Philosophy at The Catholic University of America. His research interests include Scotistic metaphysics, logic, and semantics, and he is currently focusing on Scotus's account of nature and the thought of Walter Burley. He is president and founder of the Center for Morality in Public Life and is the editor of Ethika Politika, the Center's journal.

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Andrew M. Yuengert is the Blanche Seaver Chair of Social Science, and Professor of Economics at Pepperdine University. His research investigates the intersection of economics, virtue ethics, and Catholic social thought. His most recent book is Approximating Prudence: Aristotelian Practical Wisdom and Economic Models of Choice (Palgrave Macmillan).

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Andrew Salzone is a graduate of Liberty University, where he majored in government, with an emphasis on politics and policy. His primary area of interest is the intersection of political and moral philosophy. 

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

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Arthur Milikh is the Associate Director and Research Fellow, B. Kenneth Simon Center for Principles and Politics, The Heritage Foundation.

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Arthur Waldron is Lauder Professor of International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Beatrice Scudeler writes on literature, religion, the arts, and motherhood. Her work can be found in publications like The Critic, Public Discourse, Fairer Disputations, and Current. She lives in Oxford with her husband and children.

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Beverly Willett is a writer, lawyer, and co-founder of the Coalition for Divorce Reform. She has written for USA Today, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and is the author of the forthcoming Disassembly Required: A Memoir of Mid-Life Resurrection.

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Bradley C. S. Watson is Professor of Politics and Philip M. McKenna Chair in American and Western Political Thought at Saint Vincent College. He has authored or edited many books, covering the fields of higher education, political philosophy, and constitutional law, including Living Constitution, Dying Faith: Progressivism and the New Science of Jurisprudence. He is currently finishing a volume dealing with twentieth-century historians, and their treatment of the phenomenon of progressivism, tentatively entitled Progressivism: The Strange History of an Idea.

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Brendan Foht is assistant editor of The New Atlantis. He has bachelor’s degrees in political science from the University of Calgary and in biology from the University of Alberta. He has written a number of articles on bioethics for the National Review Online, including "The Bioethics of Womb Transplants" (September 21, 2012) and "Update on the Stem-Cell Lawsuit" (September 17, 2012).

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

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Brian S. Brown is President of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) and the International Organization for the Family (IOF). He is on the board of, or an advisor to, numerous pro-life, pro-family organizations in America and abroad.

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Brian Domitrovic is the Richard S. Strong Scholar at the Laffer Center and co-author, with Arthur Laffer and Jeanne Sinquefield, of Taxes Have Consequences.

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Brock Dahl is an associate at the Palo Alto office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C. He previously worked for the U.S. Department of the Treasury in Baghdad, Iraq and on the Afghanistan Interagency Operations Group, and he has published in Current Issues, Military Review, and The Colloquium. He holds a J.D. from The George Washington University Law School, an MPhil. in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from St. Antony's College at the University of Oxford, and a B.A. in Accountancy from The George Washington University.

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Bruce Hausknecht is the judicial analyst for CitizenLink, the policy arm of Focus on the Family. Hausknecht regularly provides legal analysis and commentary for the nation’s top media outlets such as the Washington Post, the Associated Press, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Boston Globe. He earned his J.D. from Northwestern University Law School.

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Bryan T. McGraw is Dean of Social Sciences and Education and an Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations at Wheaton College in Wheaton, IL. He earned his Ph.D. in political science at Harvard University and has a range of research interests, mostly focused on the intersection of religion and liberal political thought. His first book, Faith in Politics: Religion and Liberal Democracy, was published in 2010 by Cambridge University Press. He is the co-editor of Natural Law and Evangelical Political Thought

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Casey Shutt is the assistant headmaster of the Academy of Classical Christian Studies in Oklahoma City. He owns Mindhenge Artifacts, a company supporting education that stands the test of time.

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Cassandra Hough is founder and executive director of the Love and Fidelity Network. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree with concentrations in Religion and East Asian Studies from Princeton University and was a founder of Princeton’s Anscombe Society.

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Chad Felix Greene is the author of the Reasonably Gay: Essays and Arguments series and is a social writer focusing on truth in media, conservative ideas and goals, and true equality under the law. You can ...

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Charles T. Rubin is Professor of Political Science at Duquesne University and a two-time alumnus of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University.

Christopher Scalia (2)

Christopher J. Scalia is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

Christopher M. Reilly (2)

Christopher M. Reilly is a candidate for Doctor of Theology at Pontifex University and holds graduate degrees in philosophy, theology, and public affairs. He resides in the greater Washington, D.C. region. Mr. Reilly writes frequently on philosophy, moral theology, and bioethics.

Clara E. Piano (2)

Clara is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics, Finance, and Quantitative Analysis at Samford University. She holds a PhD in Economics from George Mason University. Her primary areas of research are family economics, the economics of religion, and political economy. Beyond economics, Clara enjoys reading and discussing Catholic Social Thought.

Clare Morell (2)

Clare Morell is the Director of the Technology and Human Flourishing Project at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Her forthcoming book, The Tech Exit: A Manifesto for Freeing Our Kids, will be published by Penguin Random House.

Colin J. Smothers (2)

Colin J. Smothers serves as Executive Director of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood and Associate Pastor of Kenwood Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky. He has taught adjunctly at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, where he earned his MDiv and PhD.

Daniel DiSalvo (2)

DANIEL DISALVO is professor and chair of political science in the Colin Powell School at the City College of New York–CUNY and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. His scholarship focuses on American political parties, elections, labor unions, state government, and public policy. He is the author of Engines of Change: Party Factions in American Politics, 1868–2010 (Oxford, 2012) and Government Against Itself: Public Union Power and Its Consequences (Oxford, 2015). His articles have appeared in Political Science Quarterly, Policy Studies Journal, and American Political Thought among others. DiSalvo also writes frequently for popular publications, including The New York Times, Wall ...

Daniel E. Ritchie (2)

Daniel Ritchie is the founder of the Humanities Program at Bethel University, where he teaches English literature.

Daniel Frost (2)

Daniel Frost (PhD, Princeton University) is the Director of Public Scholarship in the School of Family Life at Brigham Young University. His writing focuses on marriage, sexual morality, moral reasoning, and religious liberty.

Daniel Kane (2)

Daniel Kane is the associate director of curriculum development at the Lobel Center for Jewish Classical Education. 

Darius Lee (2)

Darius Lee was called to the Singapore Bar and practices law as an Associate Director at Characterist LLC, a Singapore law firm. He holds a Masters of International Law and Human Rights from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a Bachelor of Laws from the National University of Singapore. He has published a range of peer-reviewed academic articles on topics including constitutional law, international law and human rights.

David Cloutier (2)

David Cloutier is an associate professor of moral theology at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. His recent books include The Vice of Luxury (Georgetown University Press) and Naming Our Sins (CUA Press, co-edited with Jana Bennett).

David F. Forte (2)

David F. Forte is Professor of Law at Cleveland State University. He was formerly a Visiting Scholar at the ...

David McPherson (2)

David McPherson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, and he is the author of The Virtues of Limits (Oxford University Press, 2022) and Virtue and ...

David R. Upham (4)

David R. Upham, Ph.D., J.D., is an attorney and Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Dallas. He regularly teaches in the areas of American politics, constitutional law, and political philosophy. His research and writing focuses on American constitutional history, and in particular, the history of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Deion Kathawa (2)

Deion A. Kathawa is an attorney who hails from America’s heartland and a 2021 alumnus of the Claremont Institute’s John Marshall Fellowship. He writes at his substack, "Sed Kontra."

Dennis L. Weisman (2)

Dr. Weisman is Emeritus Professor of Economics at Kansas State University and a former Director of Strategic Marketing for SBC Communications, Inc. (now AT&T). His primary research interests are in the fields of economic regulation, industrial organization and public policy. He is the author or co-author of more than 150 articles, books and book chapters and has written extensively on the economics and public policy of diversity and racial preferences. Dr. Weisman's work has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals ...

Denny Burk (3)

Denny Burk serves as President of the Council on Biblical Manhood & Womanhood and as professor of biblical studies at Boyce College. He is the author of What is the Meaning of Sex (Crossway, 2013) and Transforming Homosexuality (P&R, 2015). He writes on theology, politics, and culture at www.DennyBurk.com.

Derek Ross (2)

Derek Ross is the Executive Director and General Counsel for the Christian Legal Fellowship, Canada’s national association of Christian lawyers.

David Lapp (2)

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

David Novak (2)

David Novak is the J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Chair of Jewish Studies as Professor of the Study of Religion and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto.

Donna Harrison, M.D. (2)

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

Dov Lerner (2)

Dov Lerner serves both as the Rabbi of the Young Israel of Jamaica Estates and as Clinical Assistant Professor at Yeshiva University's Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought.

Earl Grinols (2)

Earl L. Grinols is a former Senior Economist for the President’s Council of Economic Advisors. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Economics at Baylor University. His most recent book is 

Elyssa Koren (3)

Elyssa Koren serves as director of United Nations advocacy in New York City, where she oversees ADF International’s UN Headquarters and Geneva legal teams. Koren’s expertise is in international human rights law, with a focus on issues pertaining to the protection of life, parental rights, and freedom of conscience as they relate to state sovereignty and the multilateral system. Koren provides legal support to UN member state representatives to shape UN documents. She participates annually in the work of the Second and Third committees of the General ...

Emilie Kao (2)

Emilie Kao is senior counsel and vice president of advocacy strategy with Alliance Defending Freedom (@ADFLegal).

Eric Teetsel (2)

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

Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. (2)

Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. serves as Assistant Director for Campus Outreach at the Thomistic Institute. He served previously as an associate pastor at St. Louis Bertrand Church in Louisville, KY where he also taught as an adjunct professor at Bellarmine University. Born and raised near Philadelphia, PA, he attended the Franciscan University of Steubenville, studying mathematics and humanities. Upon graduating, he entered the Order of Preachers in 2010. He was ordained a priest in 2016 and holds an STL from the Dominican House of Studies.

Francesca Aran Murphy (2)

Francesca Murphy is a Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. She has written and edited many books including God Is Not A Story (OUP) and the forthcoming Gnosis and the Theocrats from Mars (Bloomsbury).

Gary Powell (2)

Gary Powell is the European Special Consultant to the Center for Bioethics and Culture, California. He is a UK conservative political activist and longstanding advocate for gay and lesbian equality, and he opposes the modern western LGBT+ movement for its adoption of extreme gender ideology, its failure to represent the mainstream LGB community, and for its lack of respect for the rights of women, children, people of religious faith, and dissenting LGB people. For several years he ran a national campaign to improve public administration complaints procedures. Gary graduated ...

Gary Morson (2)

Gary Saul Morson is the Lawrence B. Dumas Professor of the Arts and Humanities and Professor of Slavic Languages at Northwestern University.  He has written or edited 21 books on Russian literature, the nature of time, the role of quotations in culture, the aphorism as a literary genre and other topics.  His most recent book is Wonder Confronts Certainty:  Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter (Harvard University Press, 2023).

Geoffrey Vaughan (2)

Geoffrey M. Vaughan teaches Political Science at Assumption College in Worcester, MA. His most recent book is an edited volume on Leo Strauss and His Catholic Readers. He is completing a book on the meaning of American citizenship.

Gerard Migeon (3)

Gerard Migeon is the CEO and co-founder of Natural Womanhood, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting the benefits of natural alternatives to contraception and increasing awareness about the science of women’s fertility.

Hope Leman (3)

Hope J. Leman is a grants researcher in the biomedical sciences. She is interested in such topics as natural law, history and the liberal arts and the social sciences in general. Hope conducts audio interviews on those subjects as a volunteer for the New Books Network.

Ian Speir (2)

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

J. Budziszewski (2)

J. Budziszewski (Ph.D. Yale, 1981) is professor of government and philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. The author of a number of Thomistic commentaries, most recently Commentary on Thomas Aquinas’s Treatise on Happiness and Ultimate Purpose (Cambridge, 2020) and Commentary on Thomas Aquinas’s Treatise on Divine ...

Jacqueline Harvey (2)

Jacqueline C. Harvey, PhD, a bioethicist whose research focuses primarily on end-of-life legislation, is an Associate Scholar at the Charlotte Lozier Institute.

James B. LaGrand (2)

James B. LaGrand is Director of the College Honors Program and Professor of American History at Messiah College in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.

James Conley (2)

James Conley is the Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska.

Janna Darnelle (2)

Janna Darnelle is a mother, writer, and an advocate for upholding marriage between one man and one woman. She also advocates for children's rights to know and be known by their biological mother and father.

James C. Capretta (2)

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

Jenet Jacob Erickson (3)

Jenet Erickson is an Associate Professor of Religious Education at Brigham Young University and a Research Fellow of both the Wheatley Institution and Institute for Family Studies.

Jennifer Gruenke (2)

Jennifer Gruenke is professor of biology and director of the Hammons Center for Scientific Studies at Union University.

Jeremy Adams (2)

Jeremy S. Adams is the author of the forthcoming book Hollowed Out: A Warning About America’s Next Generation. He has been a high school and college civics teacher for over two decades in Bakersfield, California and was the 2014 DAR California Teacher of the Year. Mr. Adams is the first public school teacher ever inducted into the California State University, Bakersfield Hall of Fame.

Jesse Russell (2)

Jesse Russell writes for a number of publications, including Front Porch Republic, Catholic World Report, and Law and Liberty.

Jessica Schurz (2)

Jessica Schurz lives and works in Washington, D.C. and is an alumna of Baylor University's Honors College, the John Jay Institute, and Brazos Fellows.

Jill Burcham (2)

Jill Burcham is a research director for a nonprofit organization and taught English while completing her master’s degree.

Joel Pidel (2)

Joel Pidel is a native of Augusta, Georgia, and practices traditional and classical architecture in New Canaan, Connecticut, residing nearby with his wife and children. He attended the University of Notre Dame where he studied architecture and philosophy, graduating in 2005. His work has been the recipient of architectural design awards and has been published in various books and magazines.

John C. Eastman (2)

John C. Eastman is the Henry Salvatori Professor of Law & ...

John Skalko (2)

John Skalko is an adjunct professor at St. John’s Seminary and a PhD Candidate in Philosophy at the University of St. Thomas, Houston.

Jon Schaff (3)

Jon D. Schaff is Professor of Political Science at Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota. He teaches courses on American Political Thought, the Presidency, Politics and Film, and Philosophy of Religion. He is author of Abraham Lincoln’s Statesmanship and the Limits of Liberal Democracy, available now. He is co-author of Age of Anxiety: Meaning, Identity, and Politics in 21st Century Film and Literature, available from Lexington Books. You can follow him on Twitter @JonDSchaff.

Jose A. Bufill (2)

Dr. Bufill is a medical oncologist with 30 years of experience caring for cancer patients and educating medical professionals at the graduate and postgraduate levels. His research interest is in clinical cancer genetics. He has cultivated a lifelong interest in bioethics and his opinion articles have appeared in national and international media outlets including USA Today, the Chicago Tribune, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and others. Recently, he taught seminars in bioethics at Strathmore University in Nairobi, Kenya. Dr. Bufill is the founder and President of the ...

Joseph M. Bessette (2)

Joseph M. Bessette is Alice Tweed Tuohy Professor Emeritus of Government and Ethics at Claremont McKenna College, where he taught courses on American institutions, ethics, and criminal justice. Among numerous other works on government and criminal justice, he is coauthor (with Edward Feser) of By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed: A Catholic Defense of Capital Punishment (Ignatius Press, 2017). He previously served in the Cook County (IL) State’s Attorney’s Office and was Deputy Director and Acting Director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics in the U.S. Department of Justice.

Joseph E. Capizzi (2)

Joseph Capizzi is Ordinary Professor of Moral Theology, and Executive Director of the Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America. He is the author of Politics, Justice, and War: Christian Governance and the Ethics of Warfare (Oxford University, 2015).

Joseph Prud'homme (2)

Joseph Prud'homme is the Burton Family Chair in Religion, Politics, and Culture and director of the Institute for Religion, Politics, and Culture, at Washington College in Chestertown, MD.

Josh Hammer (3)

Josh Hammer is Newsweek opinion editor, a research fellow at the Edmund Burke Foundation, a syndicated columnist, and a 2018 John Marshall Fellow with the Claremont Institute.

Joshua Hochschild (2)

Joshua P. Hochschild is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Mount St. Mary’s University. With Christopher O. Blum, he co-authored A Mind at Peace: Reclaiming an Ordered Soul in the Age of Distraction.  He can be found on Twitter @JoshHochschild.

Julia Shaw (2)

Julia Shaw is a writer in Washington, DC.

Justin Shubow (2)

Justin Shubow is president of the National Civic Art Society.

Katherine Cave (2)

Katherine Cave is a member of the Kelsey Coalition, a national group of parents whose transgender-identifying children have been harmed by physicians, therapists, and clinics throughout the US. Gender clinicians convinced her to support her daughter’s transition until she realized the dangers of identity-based medicine and gender identity ideology. Katherine Cave is a pseudonym to protect her daughter’s privacy.

Kelly Scott Franklin (2)

Kelly Scott Franklin is a writer and Associate Professor of English at Hillsdale College.

Kenneth W. Kemp (2)

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

Kevin E. Stuart (2)

Kevin E. Stuart is the executive director of the Austin Institute for the Study of Family & Culture. He is also the editor of the Catholicism & Society book series for the Society for Catholic Social Scientists (Franciscan University Press). Stuart received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin where he studied public law and political philosophy, and was a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge. He earned a Master of Sciences from the London School of Economics and Political Science after receiving undergraduate ...

Kevin Kosar (3)

Kevin R. Kosar (@kevinrkosar) is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He is the co-editor of Congress Overwhelmed: Congressional Capacity and Prospects for Reform (University of Chicago Press, 2020). He hosts the Understanding Congress  podcast.  

Kevin Schmiesing (2)

Kevin Schmiesing is research director at the Freedom and Virtue Institute and has published widely in the fields of religious and economic history and Christian social thought.

Kian Hudson (2)

Kian Hudson is a native Hoosier and currently serves as a deputy attorney general for the State of Indiana. He is a former law clerk for Seventh Circuit Judge Diane Sykes and is an alumnus of Northwestern University and Yale Law School.

Kishore Jayabalan (2)

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

Kristin Collier (2)

Kristin Collier, MD, FACP is an associate professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor Michigan where she serves as the director of the University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality, and Religion. She received her medical degree from the University of Michigan Medical School and completed her internship, residency, and chief residency at The University of Michigan Hospitals. Her academic interests are in the overlap of spirituality, religion, and medicine, and her peer-reviewed work has been published in JAMA Internal Medicine, ...

Laura J. Lederer (2)

Laura Lederer is President of Global Centurion Foundation, an NGO that combats human trafficking by focusing on the demand-side economics of trafficking. She is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law Center in Washington, D.C.

Lee J. Strang (3)

Professor Strang joined the University of Toledo faculty in 2008 and was named John W. Stoepler Professor of Law & Values in 2015. A graduate of the University of Iowa, Professor Strang also holds an LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School. During the fall, 2015, Professor Strang was a visiting scholar at the Georgetown Center for the Constitution. The University of Toledo awarded Professor Strang its Outstanding Faculty Research and Scholarship Award in 2017. During the 2018-2019 academic year, Professor Strang was a visiting fellow at the James Madison Program at Princeton University. Prior to teaching, Professor Strang served as a judicial clerk ...

Luca Volontè (2)

Luca Volontè is the CEO of the Novae Terrae Foundation, Chair of Dignitatis Humanae Institute, and member of the Board of Trustees of CitizenGo, ICLN, and Political ...

Luis Parrales (2)

Luis Parrales is assistant editor of The Dispatch. He is also a contributing editor of American Purpose, and an MA in Liberal Arts candidate in the Graduate Institute at St. John’s College in Annapolis. Twitter: @LuisParrales_

Madeline Schultz (2)

Madeline Fry Schultz is the contributors editor at the Washington Examiner. She previously worked at the Philanthropy Roundtable and was the culture commentary writer at the Washington Examiner. She studied French and journalism at Hillsdale College.

Marc O. DeGirolami (2)

Marc O. DeGirolami is the St. John Henry Newman Professor of Law and the Co-Director of the Center for Law and the Human Person at The Catholic University, Columbus School of Law. His publications include The Tragedy of Religious Freedom (Harvard University Press) and past and future articles in the Yale Law Journal Forum, Notre Dame Law Review, Washington University Law Review, and The American Journal of Jurisprudence, among others. He has written for The New York Times, The New Republic, The Weekly Standard, First Things, Commonweal, and The Library of Law and Liberty. He is a Contributing Writer at

Marcus Gibson (2)

Marcus Gibson is the Director of the Princeton Initiative in Catholic Thought and a lecturer at Princeton University, where he has taught courses in Greek philosophy and the Catholic intellectual tradition. Previously, he held a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship with the James Madison Program. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. from the Classical Philosophy Program in the Philosophy Department at Princeton University. His research interests include Greek philosophy, Thomas Aquinas, and the ...

Margaret Brady (2)

Margaret Brady is associate editor of Verily magazine. A graduate of the Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University, she writes from the Cleveland, Ohio area.

Margaret S. Chisolm (2)

Dr. Chisolm is Professor, Vice Chair for Education, and Director of the Paul McHugh Program for Human Flourishing in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Board-certified in both general psychiatry and addiction medicine, Dr. Chisolm has over 3 decades of clinical experience in these fields. In addition, she has served as PI or co-investigator on multiple nationally funded research projects, and has published over 80 scientific, clinical, and medical education papers on psychiatric disorders and humanistic medical practice, as well as articles (and one book) on the use of social media in medicine ...

Mark Hoipkemier (2)

Mark Hoipkemier is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. His current book project is called "Beyond Price: The Market, the Corporation, and the Common Good." You can find more of his work online at https://markhoipkemier.wordpress.com.

Mark K. Spencer (2)

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

Mark Movsesian (2)

Professor Movsesian is the Frederick A. Whitney Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Law and Religion at St. John's Law School.

Mark Perkins (2)

Mark Perkins is Curate at St. Alban’s Anglican Cathedral in Oviedo, Florida and Executive Editor of Earth & Altar.

Mark Rienzi (2)

Mark L. Rienzi is an Associate Professor of Law at the Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law. He is also Senior Counsel at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, ...

Mark S. Latkovic (2)

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

Mark Shiffman (3)

Mark Shiffman is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute for Philosophy, Technology, and Politics at Saint Patrick’s Seminary of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. His scholarly studies span the fields of ancient philosophy, political theory, and the Catholic tradition, and his writings have appeared in Communio, Commonweal, First Things, Public Discourse, New Polity, and Front Porch Republic.

Mary Harrington (2)

Mary Harrington is a contributing editor at UnHerd, where she writes a weekly column. Her forthcoming book, Feminism Against Progress, will be published in March 2023 by Forum Press. She tweets as @moveincircles.

Mary Rice Hasson (2)

Mary Rice Hasson, JD, is the Kate O'Beirne Fellow and the Director of the Catholic Women's Forum at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

Matthew Brach (2)

Matthew Brach has executed over $1B in private equity deals in the lower middle market. He currently works as an independent board member and investor pursuing growth in the lower middle market sized organizations. He also works with Catholic high schools developing experiential entrepreneurship programs. He holds a BS in accounting from Villanova University, an MBA in Entrepreneurship from the University of Maryland where he held the distinguished Dingman Entrepreneur scholarship, and a DBA from Temple University where his researched focused on private equity fund manager performance. He has selectively taught at The Catholic University of America, Loyola of Maryland, ...

Matthew Kacsmaryk (2)

Matthew Kacsmaryk is Deputy General Counsel for First Liberty Institute in Dallas, Texas. He previously served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas and was awarded the Attorney General’s Award for Excellence ...

Matthew Lee Anderson (2)

Matthew Lee Anderson is an Assistant Research Professor of Ethics and Theology at Baylor University’s Institute for Studies of Religion and the founder of Mere Orthodoxy. You may read more at matthewleeanderson.com.

Matthew S. Holland (2)

Matthew S. Holland is President of Utah Valley University and author of Bonds of Affection: Civic Charity and the Making of America.

Matthew Stewart (2)

In addition to scholarly work, Matthew Stewart has published in such venues as City Journal, Law & Liberty, Quillette, and Minding the Campus. He is the author of Modernism and Tradition in Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time.

Matthew Tuininga (2)

Matthew J. Tuininga is Assistant Professor of Moral Theology at Calvin Theological Seminary and an adjunct professor of politics and core studies at Oglethorpe University. He blogs at www.matthewtuininga.wordpress.com.

Mehmet Ciftci (3)

Dr. M. Y. Ciftci is the Public Bioethics Fellow at the Anscombe Bioethics Centre and a research assistant at the McDonald Centre in the University of Oxford's Faculty of Theology & Religion. He has recently published his first monograph with Palgrave on Vatican II and church-state relations. Follow him on Twitter/X @mehmet_y_c.

Michael K. Laidlaw (3)

Michael K. Laidlaw, MD is a board-certified physician in Rocklin, California specializing in Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism.

Michael Moreland (2)

Michael P. Moreland is University Professor of Law and Religion and Director of the Eleanor H. McCullen Center for Law, Religion and Public Policy at Villanova University.

Michael Novak (2)

Michael Novak is an American author, philosopher, and theologian who serves as a visiting professor and trustee at Ave Maria University. He has written eight books on Catholic social thought and received the Templeton Prize for founding the discipline of ...

Michael Gonzalez (2)

Michael R. Gonzalez is a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. His research interests include classical Roman, medieval Christian, and early modern political thought. He received his doctorate in political science from Baylor University after undergraduate studies at the Thomas More College of Liberal Arts.

Michael Wee (2)

Michael Wee is the Education and Research Officer at the Anscombe Bioethics Centre, a Catholic academic institute in Oxford. He is also Associate Lecturer in bioethics at St Mary's seminary in Birmingham and has written for The Catholic Herald and Church Life Journal.

Mike Sabo (2)

Mike Sabo is the editor of RealClear’s American Civics portal.

Miles Smith (2)

Miles Smith, PhD, is assistant professor in the Department of Government, History, and Criminal Justice at Regent University.

Mitchell Rocklin (2)

Rabbi Mitchell Rocklin, Ph.D. is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University's James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. He is also the President of the Jewish Coalition for Religious Liberty and a Chaplain with the rank of Captain in the New Jersey Army National Guard.

Morgan Bennett (2)

Morgan Bennett is a JD candidate at Pepperdine University School of Law.

Mark Stricherz (2)

Mark Stricherz, a reporter in Washington, is the author of Why the Democrats Are Blue: Secular Liberalism and the Decline of the People’s Party (Encounter Books).

Myles McKnight (2)

Myles McKnight is a Public Discourse Fellow at the Witherspoon Institute.

Nancy Valko (2)

Nancy Valko, RN, ALNC, is a longtime writer and speaker on medical ethics issues who recently retired from critical care nursing to devote more time to consulting and volunteer work. She is also a spokesperson for the

Nathan Berkeley (2)

Nathan A. Berkeley is Associate Vice President for U.S. Strategies and Communications with the Religious Freedom Institute.

Nathan Gill (2)

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

Nikolai Wenzel (2)

Nikolai Wenzel is Wallace and Marion Reemelin Chair in Free-Market Economics at Hillsdale College; for academic year 2011–2012, he was Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics in the Lutgert College of Business at Florida Gulf Coast University.

Owen Strachan (2)

Owen Strachan is a professor of systematic theology, Director of the Center for Public Theology, and Director of the Residency PhD program at Midwestern Seminary. He is the author of several books, including "Reenchanting Humanity: A Theology of Mankind" (Mentor, forthcoming). He is married and the father of three children.

Patrick Fagan (2)

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

Patrick Tomassi (2)

Patrick Tomassi is a teacher and writer in Portland, Oregon. He helps organize the annual New York Encounter and is a contributing editor at Veritas Journal.

Paul D. Miller (2)

Dr. Paul D. Miller is Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. He is a research fellow with the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, a senior non-resident fellow with the Atlantic Council, and a visiting professor with AEI's Initiative on Faith and Public Life. He previously served in the US Army, the CIA, and the National Security Council staff. He is the author, most recently, of Just War and Ordered Liberty, ...

Paul Diamond (2)

Paul Diamond is a barrister specializing in the Law of Religious Liberty and Free Speech; in England and in Europe. He has appeared before the House of Lords, European Courts in Strasbourg and Luxembourg in some of the most important cases.

Paul Dirks (2)

Paul Dirks has appeared before the Canadian Senate on Bill C-16 and regularly trains on the topics of sex & gender in faith and non-faith settings. He is also the Lead Pastor of New West Community Church.

Paul Krause (2)

Paul Krause is the editor-in-chief of VoegelinView and the author of Finding Arcadia: Wisdom, Truth, and Love in the Classics and The Odyssey of Love: A Christian Guide to the Great Books.

Paul McHugh (4)

Paul McHugh, MD, is University Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Medical School and the former psychiatrist in chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is the author of The Mind Has Mountains: Reflections on Society and Psychiatry.

Peter Augustine Lawler (2)

Peter Augustine Lawler was the Dana Professor of Government at Berry College. His most recent book is American Heresies and Higher Education.

Peter Blair (2)

Peter serves as the Program Manager for the Augustine Collective at the Veritas Forum. Previously, he served first as a writer and then as an editor at The American Interest and as Campus Program Coordinator for the Thomistic Institute. Peter was also a co-founder and the founding editor-in-chief of Fare Forward.

Peter Wood (2)

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

Philip Reed (2)

Philip Reed is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York. His research interests are in ethics and moral psychology.

Phillip Wozniak (2)

Dr. Wozniak is a resident physician in the combined Internal Medicine & Pediatrics residency at the University of Missouri Kansas City School of Medicine and Children's Mercy Hospital. He graduated Alpha Omega Alpha from The Ohio State University College of Medicine and was a 2017 Fulbright Research Scholar in Madrid, Spain. He is also a proud alumnus of the University of Dallas.

Patrick Hough (2)

Patrick Langdale Hough is the Executive Director of the Witherspoon Institute, the publisher of Public Discourse.

Pierre Manent (3)

Pierre Manent was director of studies at L’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, until his retirement in 2014. He is the author of numerous books, including The City of Man, Democracy without Nations?, Metamorphoses of the City, and most recently, Natural Law and Human Rights: Toward a Recovery of Practical Reason. (Photo © La ...

Ramesh Ponnuru (2)

Ramesh Ponnuru is the editor of National Review.

Randall Otto (2)

Randall Otto is Affiliate Faculty in religion for Southwestern College in Wichita, Kansas, a Mentor in Humanities for Thomas Edison State University in Trenton, New Jersey, and Visiting Professor in Critical Reasoning for Chamberlain School of Nursing, global campus. He has also served for nearly thirty years as a Presbyterian pastor.

Richard G. Evans (2)

Richard G. Evans lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and he returned to the Roman Catholic Church in 2005 after being away thirty-five years. Now a celibate Catholic Christian, he considers himself same-sex attracted, but that does not define him. He works as a patient-care representative for the clinic division of HealthEast, one of the premier healthcare systems in the Twin Cities area. His hobbies include collecting vintage records, especially classic jazz and blues.

Richard Reinsch (2)

Richard M. Reinsch II is a Senior Fellow at the Heritage Foundation and Columnist for The Daily Signal. He is coauthor with Peter A. Lawler of A Constitution in Full (Kansas Press, 2019).

Richard A. Spinello (2)

Richard A. Spinello is a Professor at Boston College and the author of Four Catholic Philosophers: Rejoicing in the Truth (Jacques Maritain, Edith Stein, Dietrich von Hildebrand, Karol Wojtyła).

Rickard Newman (2)

Rickard Newman is Secretary of Christian Formation and the Director of Family Life and Pro-Life in the Diocese of Lake Charles. He is also the Campaign Manager of The Anonymous Us Project.

Robert Vischer (2)

Robert K. Vischer is Professor of Law at the University of St. Thomas Law School in Minneapolis. He is the author of Conscience and the Common Good: Reclaiming the Space Between Person and State (Cambridge University Press 2010).

Robert R. Reilly (2)

Robert R. Reilly is the author of In Defense of the American Founding, forthcoming from Ignatius Press in 2018. He also has written Surprised by Beauty: A Listener’s Guide to the Recovery of Modern Music and The Closing of the Muslim Mind.

Ron Belgau (2)

Ron Belgauis the cofounder, with Wesley Hill, of the Spiritual Friendshipblog (spiritualfriendship.org). He studied philosophy at St. Louis University, where he also taught ethics, medical ethics, and philosophy of religion. He was invited to speak at the 2015 World Meeting of Families during Pope Francis’s visit to Philadelphia, and has spoken throughout the United States, as well as in Canada and the Great Britain. In addition to Spiritual Friendship, he has been published in New Oxford Review, Notre Dame Magazine, First Things, and Ethika Politika, and he contributed a chapter to Venus and Virtue.

Ronald Rychlak (2)

Ronald J. Rychlak is Distinguished Professor and Jamie L. Whitten Chair in Law and Government at the University of Mississippi, where he has been on the law school faculty since 1987. In 2019, he received the university’s highest research and publication recognition, the “Distinguished Research and Creative Achievement Award.” In 2020, he was named the law school’s first ever Distinguished Professor. He earned his J.D. from Vanderbilt University and his B.A. from Wabash College. Ron served for 13 years as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and currently serves as Faculty Athletics Representative, chair of the Intercollegiate Athletics Committee, and secretary ...

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Ross Douthat is an opinion columnist for the New York Times. He is the author, most recently, of The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery. He lives with his wife and four children in New Haven, CT.

Steven F. McGuire (3)

Steven McGuire is the Paul and Karen Levy Fellow in Campus Freedom at the American Council of Trustees and Alumni. He holds a Ph.D. in Politics from the Catholic University of America, an M.A. from the University of Saskatchewan, and a B.A. from the University of Lethbridge. He is co-editor of Eric Voegelin and the Continental Tradition: Explorations in Modern Political Thought (Missouri, 2011), Subjectivity: Ancient ...

Samantha Stephenson (2)

Samantha Stephenson holds master’s degrees in theology and bioethics and is a Paul Ramsey Fellow at the Center for Bioethics and Culture. She is the author of Reclaiming Motherhood from a Culture Gone Mad and host of the podcast Mama Prays. You can find her at www.snstephenson.com.

Sarah B. Horgan (2)

Sarah Horgan, MA, is a writer, a lover of Victorian literature, and an ardent supporter of children's rights. She lives in the Northwest with her husband.

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Shilo Brooks is Assistant Director of the James Madison Program at Princeton and Lecturer in the Department of Politics. He was previously Associate Teaching Professor at the University of Colorado, where he was Faculty Director of the Engineering Leadership Program and Associate Faculty Director of the Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization. He is author of Nietzsche’s Culture War, in addition to scholarly and journalistic articles on a variety of topics in politics, history, and culture.

Seth Higgins (2)

Seth Higgins, a native of Saint Marys, Pennsylvania, is a former Krauthammer Fellow with The Tikvah Fund.

Siobhan Heekin-Canedy (2)

Siobhan Heekin-Canedy is a freelance writer on topics including international affairs, religion, sports, and feminism. She holds a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University, as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts from Thomas Aquinas College. From 2008-2014, Siobhan represented Ukraine as an elite-level ice dancer, ultimately competing in the 2014 Winter Olympics. She and her husband Michael are the proud parents of two daughters, Maris Stella and Olympia. You can follow Siobhan's work on X (Twitter) @SiobhanHC_OLY and on Substack at 

Stella Morabito (2)

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

Stephanie Barclay (2)

Professor Stephanie Barclay is a First Amendment scholar who researches and writes about the role our different democratic institutions play in protecting minority rights, particularly at the intersection of free speech and religious exercise issues. Professor Barclay’s academic writing has been published or is forthcoming in journals such as the Washington University Law Review, the Boston College Law Review, the Indiana Law Journal, and the Arizona Law Review. Professor Barclay has frequently appeared in the national media to discuss First Amendment issues, including appearances on BBC World News, Wall Street Journal Live, and Fox News. And her work has ...

Steven Smith (2)

Steven B. Smith is the Alfred Cowles Professor of Political Science at Yale. He is the author of several books, most recently Reclaiming Patriotism in an Age of Extremes.

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Sukhayl Niyazov is an independent writer. His work has appeared in The National Interest, The American Conservative, The Federalist, Foundation for Economic Education, City Journal, Law and Liberty, and other publications. He has also worked on the issues of political polarization and social media at Braver Angels, a nonprofit dedicated to bridging the divide between Democrats and Republicans.

Susan Martin (2)

Susan Martin writes about gender, fertility and memory from the perspective of a non-Jewish person walking on the soil where the killing of millions of Jewish people took place. She studies the boundaries between historical record and the recording of memory in the body as it influences current cultural issues of gender identity. She grew up in North Carolina where she experienced the benefits of Quaker community and thought.

Susan T. Muskett (2)

Susan T. Muskett is a veteran pro-life activist and attorney. Ms. Muskett graduated with honors from Georgetown University and received her law degree from the University of Notre Dame Law School.

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Thomas Anthony Cavanaugh is Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Francisco where he regularly teaches medical ethics. Hippocrates' Oath and Asclepius' Snake: The Birth of the Medical Profession (Oxford University Press, 2018) is his most recent book.

Ted McAllister (2)

Ted McAllister is an associate professor of public policy at Pepperdine University and was a 2012-2013 Visiting Fellow in the James Madison Program at Princeton University.

Theresa MacArt (2)

Theresa MacArt serves as an Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Service at Holy Cross College, Notre Dame, and in her spare time helps lead the new St. Thomas More Academy, South Bend. Her research focuses on the ethics of citizenship in St. Thomas Aquinas.

Thomas Howes (3)

Thomas Howes is the Editor-in-Chief of The Vital Center and the Director of the Reagan Caucus. He is also a research fellow of the Austrian Institute (Vienna), a member of the James Madison Society, and a lecturer in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. Right now he is finishing a book manuscript with the preliminary title

Thomas Pink (2)

Thomas Pink is Professor of Philosophy at King’s College, London. He writes on ethics, metaphysics, political and legal philosophy and on the history of these subjects.

Thomas Tacoma (2)

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

Timothy Burns (2)

Timothy W. Burns is Professor of Political Science at Baylor University. For the 2022-23 academic year he was a John and Daria Barry Visiting Research Scholar at Princeton University. His most recent book is *Leo Strauss on Democracy, Technology, and Liberal Education.* He is also the author of *Shakespeare’s Political Wisdom,* co-author (with Thomas L. Pangle) of *Key Texts of Political Philosophy,* and editor or co-editor of five volumes of essays. He co-edits Palgrave MacMillan’s “Recovering Political Philosophy” series, and he is Editor-in-Chief of *Interpretation: A Journal of ...

V. Bradley Lewis (3)

V. Bradley Lewis is Associate Dean and Associate Professor in the School of Philosophy of the Catholic University of America, where he teaches courses in political and legal philosophy. He is also a fellow in the Institute for Human Ecology.

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Veronica Roberts Ogle is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Assumption University, where she also directs the LEX Program. She is the author of Politics and the Earthly City in Augustine’s City of God (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

W. Bradford Wilcox (2)

William Bradford Wilcox is Director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies, and a Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.

William Dailey (2)

Fr. William R. Dailey, CSC is a priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross and Director of the Notre Dame-Newman Centre for Faith & Reason in Dublin, Ireland. Prior to his work in Dublin, he was a Lecturer in Law at the Notre Dame Law School, focussing on Jurisprudence and Legal Ethics.

William Saunders (3)

William Saunders is Fellow and Director of the Program in Human Rights at the IHE at CUA. He is also co-director of the Center for Religious Liberty at the Columbus School of Law at CUA. A graduate of the Harvard Law School, he been involved of public policy, law and ethics for twenty-five years. Mr. Saunders has written widely on these topics, as well as on Catholic social teaching. He has given lectures in law schools and colleges throughout the United States and the world. His recent co-edited volume, is Unborn Human Life and Fundamental Rights: Leading Constitutional Cases Under ...

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Aaron D. Cobb (1)

Aaron D. Cobb is an associate professor of philosophy at Auburn University at Montgomery. He is the author of Loving Samuel: Suffering, Dependence, and the Calling of Love.

Abigail Anthony (1)

Abigail Anthony graduated from Princeton University in 2023 and is currently a Barry Scholar at Oxford University. She is the current Collegiate Network Fellow at National Review.

Abigail Wilkinson (1)

Abigail Wilkinson is a graduate student in moral theology at the University of Notre Dame. Previously, she received an MA in human rights from The Catholic University of America and a BA in history from Christendom College. Her primary interests concern virtue, biomedical ethics, and political theology.

Abram Pafford (1)

Abram Pafford is a litigation partner in the Washington, DC office of a large international law firm. He focuses his practice on protecting the rights and interests of companies and individuals who face disputes or conflicts with the federal government in its role as purchaser, prosecutor, and chief regulator. The opinions expressed are entirely his own, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the firm, its lawyers, or its clients. This article is for general information purposes and is not intended to be and should not be taken as ...

Adam Kirsch (1)

Adam Kirsch is a poet, critic, and editor at the Wall Street Journal. He is the author of On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence and Justice (W.W. Norton).

Adam Kissel (1)

Adam Kissel was deputy assistant secretary for higher education programs at the U.S. Department of Education.

Adam Thomas (1)

Adam Thomas is Associate Director of the Lyceum Program at the Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism and teaches political theory at Clemson University.

Adam White (1)

Adam White is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and co-director of George Mason University’s C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State.

Adelaide Mena (2)

Adelaide Mena works as the DC Correspondent for Catholic News Agency and is a 2012 graduate of Princeton University. 

Adina Portaru (1)

Adina Portaru is Legal Counsel for ADF International in Belgium, advocating for religious freedom at the European Union. Adina earned her LLM in Law and Globalization from Maastricht University, and her doctorate in Law and religion from Karl Franzens University in Austria.

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Alan McLaughlin is an attorney and educator living in the American Southwest.

Alden McCray (1)

Alden C. McCray (PhD, University of St Andrews) is assistant professor of biblical and religious studies at Grove City College. He writes primarily on the doctrine of God, the theology of biblical interpretation, and the beatific vision. His work has appeared in publications including the Journal of Reformed Theology, Pro Ecclesia, the Reformed Theological Review, and the Global Anglican.

Alex Priou (1)

Alex Priou is Teaching Assistant Professor in the Herbst Program at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is the author of Becoming Socrates: Political Philosophy in Plato’s Parmenides from University of Rochester Press, as well as a number of articles and essays on the history of political philosophy. He has two books forthcoming this year, Defending Socrates: Political Philosophy Before the Tribunal of Science from Mercer University Press and Musings on Plato’s Symposium from Political Animal Press.

Alexander Zubatov (1)

Alexander Zubatov is a practicing attorney specializing in general commercial litigation. He is also a practicing writer specializing in general non-commercial poetry, fiction, essays and polemics. He makes occasional, unscheduled appearances on Twitter (@zoobahtov) and Medium.

Alicia Grimaldi (1)

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

Alise Alexander (1)

Alise Alexander is Campus Minister at an all-girls Catholic high school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. A former Teaching Fellow with the Alliance for Catholic Education, she earned a Master of Education from the University of Notre Dame after completing a Bachelor of Arts in French from Furman University. Ms. Alexander has taught French, theology, and history at the high school level.

Allen Mendenhall (1)

Allen Mendenhall is an associate dean at Faulkner University Thomas Goode Jones School of Law and executive director of the Blackstone & Burke Center for Law & Liberty. Visit his website at AllenMendenhall.com.

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Amanda Achtman (1)

Amanda Achtman holds graduate degrees in philosophy from the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin in Poland and in Judaic Studies & Jewish-Christian Relations from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. She works with Canadian Physicians for Life on Ethics Education and Cultural Engagement. Amanda is also a 2023-2024 NextGEN Fellow at Cardus and a 2023-2024 Krauthammer Fellow at the Tikvah Fund.

Amy Hamilton (1)

Amy E. Hamilton, PhD, is a research associate and a happily married mother of two school-age children.

Andrea Picciotti-Bayer (1)

Andrea Picciotti-Bayer is Director of the Conscience Project, a nonprofit organization advancing religious freedom and the rights of conscience through public education in the media and amicus support in key religious freedom cases. A Stanford-educated lawyer, Andrea has dedicated her legal career to civil rights and appellate advocacy. She got her start in the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice, specializing in institutional reform and police misconduct and also handling enforcement of constitutional and federal civil rights laws in the appellate section. Before leading the Conscience Project, Andrea served as legal advisor to the Catholic Association, ...

Andrew Abela (1)

Dr. Andrew Abela is the founding dean of the Busch School of Business at the Catholic University of America, and the university's former provost.

Andrew Bramsen (1)

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

Andrew D. Carico (1)

Andrew D. Carico is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at William Jessup University in Rocklin, CA. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Claremont Graduate University.

Andrew D. Graham (1)

Andrew D. Graham serves as the Executive Director for Policy and Education & Senior Fellow at First Liberty Institute, a national nonprofit law firm and think tank dedicated to defending religious freedom for people of all faith traditions. He is a regular speaker at conferences, universities, academic gatherings, and think tanks on law and religion. Before assuming his current role, Andrew was a partner with Jackson Walker LLP, a more than 130-year-old law firm with more than 400 lawyers across seven Texas-based offices. In private practice, he achieved an extensive record of success in high-stakes litigation in both trial and appellate ...

Andrew J. Zwerneman (1)

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

Andrew Latham (1)

Andrew Latham is a professor of political science at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He is the author, most recently, of Theorizing Medieval Geopolitics: War and World Order in the Age of the Crusades, and The Holy Lance, his first novel. In 2017 he received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities in support of his book project entitled Political Theology and Medieval Sovereignty, which will be published by ARC Humanities Press/...

Andrew Lewis (1)

Andrew Lewis is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Cincinnati.

Andrew R. DeLoach (1)

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

Andrew Kubick (1)

Dr. Kubick holds a Ph.D. in Bioethics from the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum and an M.A. in Theology from Holy Apostles College & Seminary. Aside from his work at the Religious Freedom Institute, he is Chair of the Bioethics Department at Saint John Paul the Great Catholic High School, Personal Consultations Ethicist Fellow at the National Catholic Bioethics Center, Research Associate and Project Manager for Fr. Nicanor Pier Giorgio Austriaco, O.P. at Providence College, and Adjunct Professor of Bioethics at University of Mary.

Angel Parham (1)

Angel Adams Parham is Associate Professor of Sociology and senior fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture (IASC) at the University of Virginia. Her research is in the historical and comparative-historical sociology of race. She is the author of American Routes: Racial Palimpsests and the Transformation of Race (Oxford, 2017) which examines changes in race and racialization in New Orleans under the French, Spanish and Anglo-American administrations. The book has won several awards. She is currently at work on a book manuscript tentatively entitled "Reckoning and Reconciliation: On Race and Memory in Civic Life" which compares and ...

Angela McKay Knobel (1)

Angela McKay Knobel is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Catholic University of America.

Angela Miceli (1)

Angela C. Miceli Stout, Ph.D. is a former research fellow at the Universidad de Navarra in Pamplona, Spain. She now serves as the Marriage and Family Life Coordinator at her parish in Springfield, Oregon where she resides with her family.

Anna Bonta Moreland (1)

Dr. Anna Bonta Moreland is an Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities at Villanova University. Her areas of research include faith and reason, medieval theology with an emphasis on Thomas Aquinas, the theology of religious pluralism, and comparative theology, especially between Christianity and Islam. She has written Known by Nature: Thomas Aquinas on Natural Knowledge of God (Herder & Herder, 2010), and edited New Voices in Catholic Theology (Herder & Herder, 2012). Her forthcoming book, Muhammad Reconsidered: A Christian Perspective on Islamic Prophecy (Notre Dame Press, 2020) is in press. Dr. Moreland completed this work as the Myser Fellow at the University ...

Anne Marie Williams (1)

Anne Marie Williams is the Managing Editor at Natural Womanhood and has ten years of nursing experience, primarily in the adult Intensive Care Unit (ICU) setting. She is a wife and mom to four children, ages one through eight, and hosts the Grit.Growth.Grace. podcast to help other mothers experience postpartum as a time of grit, growth, and grace.

Anne Mulrooney (1)

Anne Mulrooney works at a conservative publishing house. She lives in Washington, D.C.

Anne Snyder (1)

Anne Snyder is the Director of The Character Initiative at The Philanthropy Roundtable, where she is completing a book to help donors and institutional leaders cultivate thicker communities of character. She is also a Fellow at the Center for Opportunity Urbanism and a Senior Fellow at The Trinity Forum.

Anonymous Anonymous (1)

Anonymous is a mother of four children. She holds a Ph.D. in Classics.

Anthony Barr (1)

Anthony Barr is a graduate of the Templeton Honors College at Eastern University, and a recent Fellow with the Hertog Foundation in DC. He currently lives outside Philadelphia and works as an assistant teacher at Main Line Classical Academy.

Borys Gudziak (1)

Archbishop Borys Gudziak, (born 1960 in Syracuse, N.Y., PhD Harvard University 1992) is Metropolitan Archbishop of Philadelphia for the Ukrainian Catholics in the United States of America. He is Head of the Department of External Church Relations of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. He also serves as President (chair of the board of directors) of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine. Among Gudziak’s awards and distinctions are: the Cavalier of the Order of Legion of Honor (Chevalier de l’Ordre national de la Légion d’honneur) (2015), the Jan Nowak-Jeziorański Award in Wroclaw, Poland (2016), the Vasyl Stus literary ...

Arland K. Nichols (1)

Arland K. Nichols is the Director of Education and Evangelization at Human Life International. Mr. Nichols graduated from Texas A&M University with a B.A. in Philosophy, and he earned a Masters of Divinity from the University of St. Thomas Graduate School of Theology. Recent articles of his include "In vitro fertilization is dehumanizing" (Catholic Herald, September 2011) and "Betrayal or Integrity? The Choice is Yours” (New Oxford Review, December 2010).

Arshad Jilani (1)

Arshad Jilani is co-founder and Vice President of Swat Relief Initiative and the former Director of Advanced Programs for GE Licensing. He received his MBA in Marketing and Finance from Case Western Reserve University and his MS from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Aryeh Klapper (1)

Aryeh Klapper is Dean of the Center for Modern Torah Leadership, which brings rigorous traditional scholarship, interdisciplinary openness, and a deeply humanist understanding of halakhah to every aspect of Jewish and public life.

Anthony Jose Sirven (1)

Anthony Jose Sirven is a lawyer in South Florida, where he litigates at both the trial and appellate levels. Outside of his commercial practice, Anthony has written articles on constitutional law that have been published by the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, Florida Law Review, and Texas Review of Law & Politics (forthcoming), along with essays that have appeared on Public Discourse and First Things.

Austin R. Nimocks (1)

Austin R. Nimocks serves as senior legal counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom at its Washington, D.C. Regional Service Center, where he is a member of the marriage litigation team. Nimocks earned his J.D. from the Baylor University School of Law in Waco, Texas. He is admitted to the bars of the District of Columbia, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Arizona, the U.S. Supreme Court, and the U.S Courts of Appeal for the D.C., 1st, 4th, 5th, and 9th Circuits.

Austin Ruse (1)

Austin Ruse is president of C-FAM (Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute), a New York- and Washington, D.C.-based research institute that focuses exclusively on international legal and social policy.

Austin Walker (2)

Austin Walker is the Associate Director and a Scholar-in-Residence at the Lumen Christi Institute. He oversees the Institute's presentation of the Catholic intellectual tradition on the University of Chicago campus.  He also leads Great Books seminars for LCI and the University of Chicago's Graham School.  He received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago's Committee on Social Thought in 2022, where he wrote on the political philosophy of John Henry Newman. He holds a B.A. in Greek and Latin from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an M.A. from the University of Mississippi.

B. Klein (1)

B. Klein was raised in New York and has lived in Israel, where much of her family still resides. She received her ...

Babette Francis (1)

Babette Francis is founder and coordinator of Australia’s Endeavour Forum, Inc., an NGO having special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations.

Benjamin Bull (1)

Benjamin Bull is chief counsel and executive director of ADF International, an alliance-building legal organization that advocates the right of people to freely live out their faith.

Benjamin Lipscomb (1)

Benjamin J. B. Lipscomb is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Honors Program at Houghton College. He lives with his family in Fillmore, New York, when his teaching doesn't call him to London for a season.

Benjamin L. Smith (1)

Benjamin L. Smith is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Aquinas College in Nashville, Tennessee.

Benjamin Ogilvie (1)

Ben is a UChicago JD-MBA student with a background in microbiology, management consulting, and politics. He tweets at @gogglesmammoth.

Benjamin and Jenna Storey (1)

Benjamin Storey is Jane Gage Hipp Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Furman University. Jenna Silber Storey is Associate Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Furman University. Together, they direct Furman's Tocqueville Program. Their work can be found at www.jbstorey.com.

Benjamin Frush (1)

Ben Frush is a med-peds resident at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He received his MD from the University of North Carolina and was a fellow in the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Fellowship at the Duke Divinity School. He is interested in bioethics, specifically how both theology and moral philosophy can inform current conversations involving disability, moral formation in medicine, and end-of-life care.

Bernadette Ward (1)

Educated at Harvard and Stanford, Bernadette Waterman Ward is Associate Professor of English at the University of Dallas. She is the author of Eliot's Angels George Eliot, René Girard, and Mimetic Desire (forthcoming, University of Notre Dame Press) and World as Word: Philosophical Theology in Gerard Manley Hopkins. President of the St. John Henry Newman Association, and a board member for more than two decades, she has written numerous articles on Newman; on the board of scholars for the Hopkins Quarterly, she writes frequently on Hopkins. She is president of Phi Beta ...

Bethany Mandel (1)

Bethany Mandel is a homeschooling mother of five, an editor at the children's book company Heroes of Liberty, and a contributing writer for Deseret News. She is a widely published writer on politics and culture and often appears in the pages of the New York Post, Daily Mail and the Spectator. She has also appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, the Atlantic, and more.

Bethany Wall (1)

Bethany Wall graduated in May 2016 with her MTS from the John Paul II Institute for Marriage & Family Studies in Washington, DC.

Blake Robinson (1)

Blake Robinson is Vice President of Research and Portfolio Management at Stelac Advisory Services and a past Financial Advisor at Fulcrum Securities. He has written on the topic of ethical investing for the Witherspoon Institute's Public Discourse and for Mercatornet. A graduate of Princeton University and Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business, he employs conservative valuation techniques to implement the principles of value investing.

Brad Wilcox (1)

Brad Wilcox is Professor of Sociology and Director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, the Future of Freedom Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies, and a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. His most recent book is Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization (HarperCollins).

Brandon Joa (1)

Brandon Joa is a medical student at Thomas Jefferson University, where he studies the application of design principles to community health. He received his A.B. in religion from Princeton University.

Brandon Vaidyanathan (1)

Dr. Brandon Vaidyanathan is Chair and Associate Professor of Sociology at The Catholic University of America. He is author of Mercenaries and Missionaries: Capitalism and Catholicism in the Global South and co-author of Secularity and Science: What Scientists Around the World Think About Religion. His ongoing research examines well-being and mental health in scientific and religious communities.

Brandon Van Dyck (1)

Brandon Van Dyck is Associate Director of the Princeton Initiative in Catholic Thought at the Aquinas Institute.

Brenda Hafera (1)

Brenda Hafera is the Assistant Director and Senior Policy Analyst at The Heritage Foundation's Simon Center for American Studies. She previously served as the Director of International and Continuing Education at The Fund for American Studies and the Assistant Director of the Matthew J. Ryan Center for the Study of Free Institutions and the Public Good at Villanova University. Brenda holds a bachelor of arts in Political Science, a bachelor of science in Finance, and a master’s in political science from Villanova University. She was a Publius Fellow at the Claremont Institute and a James Madison Fellow at Hillsdale ...

Brian Miller (1)

Brian K. Miller is the Director of Legal and Public Affairs at the Center for Individual Rights and an Opinion Contributor to Forbes Magazine. He was named to Forbes 30 under 30 for his work in law and policy.

Brian Mogck (1)

Brian Mogck is an attorney in New Jersey.

Brian Murray (1)

Brian Murray is a lawyer in Pennsylvania.

Brian Simboli (1)

Brian Simboli has written for Lifenews, American Spectator, Crisis Magazine, First Things, and Washington Times, as well as scholarly journals. He graduated from Swarthmore ...

Brian Walsh (1)

Brian Walsh is the executive director of the Ethics and Public Policy Center's program on American Religious Freedom. Before joining EPPC, Mr. Walsh was Senior Legal Research Fellow in former Attorney General Edwin Meese's Center for Legal & Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Regent University School of Law and holds a bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Brittany Basile (1)

Brittany Basile is Director of Outreach and Communications at the Love and Fidelity Network.

Bruce Cole (1)

Bruce Cole is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, DC. Between 2001 and 2009, he was chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is a former Distinguished Professor ...

Bruce Ashford (1)

Bruce Riley Ashford is Senior Fellow in Public Theology at the Kirby Laing Centre for Public Theology (Cambridge, U.K.). He is the author of nine books, including Letters to an American Christian, The Gospel of Our King, and The Doctrine of Creation.

Bryan R. Cross (1)

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

C.J. Wolfe (1)

C.J. Wolfe will teach political science as an assistant professor at the University of St. Thomas in Houston this fall. He has previously taught at the University of Dallas, North Lake College, and Founders Classical Academy. 

Caleb Acker (1)

Caleb Acker received his JD from Notre Dame Law School. He is interested in religious freedom, election law, and keeping faith in politics.

Carl H. Esbeck (1)

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

Carrie Gress (1)

Carrie Gress, Ph.D., is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a scholar at the Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America. She is the founder and co-editor of the online women’s magazine Theology of Home and the author of ten books, including The End of Woman. She lives in Virginia with her husband and five children.

Cary Amiel G. Villanueva (1)

Cary Amiel G. Villanueva, MD is an internal medicine resident at the Philippine General Hospital. An alumnus of Witherspoon Institute's "Medical Ethics: A Natural Law Perspective" summer seminar, he is a Junior Associate and project manager of Universitas Foundation, Inc. (www.universitas.ph), which aims to form leaders who are competent, of stable moral character and have well-formed consciences. He enjoys learning evidence-based medicine and bioethics.

Cary Nederman (1)

Cary J. Nederman is professor of political science at Texas A&M University. He is the author or editor of over 25 volumes and has published in excess of 150 journal articles and book chapters. His latest books are Thomas Becket: An Intimate Portrait (Paulist Press) and The Bonds of Humanity: Cicero’s Legacies in European Social and Political Thought, c.1100-c.1550 (Pennsylvania State University Press).

Catherine Glenn Foster (1)

Catherine Glenn Foster, M.A., J.D., serves as President & CEO of Americans United for Life, America’s original national pro-life organization and the nation’s premier pro-life legal team. AUL’s legal strategists have been involved in every pro-life case before the U.S. Supreme Court since Roe v. Wade. AUL is the pioneer of the state-based model legislative strategy, which works to save lives today while undermining the so-called “reliance” interest adopted by the Supreme Court in Planned Parenthood v. Casey: the false idea that women “rely” on abortion to succeed in American society. Under Foster’s ...

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Charles F. Capps (1)

Charles F. Capps is a JD student and a PhD candidate in philosophy at the University of Chicago.

Charles L. Glenn (1)

Charles L. Glenn is Professor Emeritus of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Boston University.

Chaya Sara Oppenheim (1)

Chaya Sara Oppenheim studied English and history at Barnard College of Columbia University.

Chloe Folmar (1)

Chloe Folmar is a philosophy and psychology double major at the College of William & Mary graduating in December 2021. Apart from her academics, Chloe is founder and editor-in-chief of the Christopher Wren Journal, president of William & Mary's pro-life group, and chair of her school's chapter of the American Enterprise Institute's Executive Council. Through her upbringing in the United Arab Emirates, Chloe discovered the importance of American values such as free speech, freedom of the press and religious liberty, which she hopes to advance in her future career.

Chris Bullivant (1)

Chris Bullivant is the director of the Social Capital Campaign. Previously he helped to establish the London- based online commentary magazine UnHerd and two think tanks: U.K. 2020 focused on improving environmental policy and global food security, and the Centre for Social Justice developed a welfare policy platform implemented by the then incoming Prime Minister. His commentary has been published in USA Today, The Washington Examiner, The American Conservative and UnHerd. Chris earned an M....

Chris Smith (1)

Chris Smith has been the US Representative for New Jersey’s 4th congressional district since 1981.

Christen Price (1)

Christen Price is Legal Counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom, which is currently litigating against the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice over their attempt to redefine Title IX.

Christine Emba (1)

Christine Emba is an Opinion columnist and editor at the Washington Post, where she focuses on ideas and society. Her book Rethinking Sex: A Provocation, on the failures and potential of sexual ethics in a post- #MeToo world, was released by Penguin Random House in 2022. She is also a contributing editor at Comment Magazine and an Editor-at-Large of Wisdom of Crowds, which includes a newsletter and a podcast. Before coming to the Post in 2015, Christine was the Hilton Kramer Fellow in Criticism at the New Criterion and a deputy editor at the Economist Intelligence Unit, focusing on technology ...

Christopher Garbowski (1)

Christopher Garbowski is a professor emeritus at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland. He has been primarily interested in values and religion in literature and popular culture and is the author and co-editor of a number of books. His last book was Truth, Beauty and the Common Good: The Search for Meaning through Culture, Community and Life (2021). His forthcoming book, The Problem of Moral Rearmament: Poland, the European Union, and the War in Ukraine, will be published by Wipf and Stock.

Christopher R. Green (1)

Christopher Green is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Mississippi. He has degrees from Princeton and Yale Law and a philosophy PhD from Notre Dame. He writes chiefly on the Fourteenth Amendment (particularly equal citizenship, traditional judicial proceedings, and literal protection) and constitutional theory (particularly original meaning and the oath).

Christopher Goffos (1)

Christopher Lloyd Goffos is a Ph.D. candidate in politics at Hillsdale College. His dissertation is “The Good Constitution: A Moral Account of U.S. Constitutionalism in Clarence Thomas’s Political Thought.”

Christopher Spewock (1)

Christopher Spewock, MD, is a resident physician training in emergency medicine. He lives in Philadelphia.

Chuck Donovan (1)

Chuck Donovan is President of the Charlotte Lozier Institute.

Claire Swinarski (1)

Claire Swinarski writes The Catholic Feminist, a bestselling substack newsletter on women and the church. She's also the author of multiple books for both kids and adults. Her writing has been featured in The Washington Post, Vox, Seventeen, and many other publications. She lives in small town Wisconsin with her husband and three kids.

Clarke Forsythe (1)

Clarke D. Forsythe is Senior Counsel at Americans United for Life and author of Abuse of Discretion: The Inside Story of Roe v. Wade (Encounter Books 2013).

Christos Andreas Makridis (2)

Christos A. Makridis serves as a (Research) Assistant Professor at Arizona State University, a Digital Fellow at the MIT Sloan Initiative on the Digital Economy, a non-resident fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government Cyber Security Initiative, a non-resident fellow at the Baylor University Institute for Studies of Religion, and a senior adviser to Gallup. Christos earned his doctorates in economics and management science & engineering from Stanford University and his undergraduates in economics and mathematics from Arizona State University.

Constance T. Hull (1)

Constance T. Hull is a freelance writer, graduate student theologian, homeschooling mother, and contributor at Catholic Exchange and The Federalist.

Current and Former Chairs of the USCIRF (1)

The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) is an independent, bipartisan US federal government commission. USCIRF reviews the facts and circumstances of religious freedom violations and makes policy recommendations to the President, the Secretary of State, and Congress.

Serhiy Hovorun (1)

Archimandrite Cyril Hovorun is a professor of ecclesiology, international relations and ecumenism at Sankt Ignatios College, University College Stockholm, and a director of the Huffington Ecumenical Institute at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. A graduate of the Theological Academy in Kyiv and National University in Athens, he accomplished his doctoral studies at Durham University under the supervision of Fr Andrew Louth. He was a chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, first deputy chairman of the Educational Committee of the Russian Orthodox Church, ...

D.B. Holiday (1)

D.B. Holiday works in corporate America. He’d like to keep it that way.

Damian Bell (1)

Damian Bell is a writer living in the Midwest.

Daniel Addison (1)

Daniel Addison teaches philosophy at Mercy University. He completed his PhD on Hegel's critique of Kant's theoretical philosophy under John McDowell at the University of Pittsburgh before teaching at Hunter College/CUNY from 2013-2024. In recent years he has taught his students After Virtue.

Daniel Haqiqatjou (1)

Daniel Haqiqatjou was born and raised in Houston, Texas. He attended Harvard University where he majored in physics and minored in philosophy. He then completed a master’s degree ...

Daniel Dreisbach (1)

Daniel L. Dreisbach is a professor in the School of Public Affairs at American University in Washington, DC and the author of, among other books, Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers (Oxford, 2017) and Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation Between Church and State (NYU Press, 2002). You can follow him on Twitter @d3bach.

Daniel Payne (1)

Daniel Payne is an assistant editor at The College Fix, a daily higher education news website that trains young student reporters in the craft of ...

Daniel Sonnenfeld (1)

Daniel Sonnenfeld is a graduate student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Middle Eastern Studies department, where he researches the Jewish-Arab conflict and modern Islamic movements. He is also a researcher of Jihadi movements at the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) and an alum of the Tikvah Fund's Krauthammer Fellowship.

Darel Paul (1)

Darel E. Paul is the Willmott Family Third Century Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Political Economy Program at Williams College. He is the author of three books including From Tolerance to Equality: How Elites Brought America to Same-Sex Marriage (2018). He is also a regular columnist at Compact Magazine and his popular work has appeared at First Things, The American Conservative, Postliberal Order, and other outlets. His current scholarly projects are on contemporary nationalism in Western countries as well as on the ...

Darren Patrick Guerra (1)

Darren Patrick Guerra is an associate professor of political science at Biola University. 

Darrin Snyder Belousek (1)

Darrin W. Snyder Belousek is the author of Marriage, Scripture, and the Church: Theological Discernment on the Question of Same-Sex Union (Baker Academic, 2021).

David A. Eisenberg (1)

David A. Eisenberg is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Eureka College.

David Bonagura (1)

David G. Bonagura, Jr., is an adjunct professor at St. Joseph’s Seminary and Catholic Distance University. He serves as Religion Editor of The University Bookman. He is the author of Steadfast in Faith: Catholicism and the Challenges of Secularism and Staying with the Catholic Church, and the translator of Jerome’s Tears: Letters to Friends in Mourning.

David Burris (1)

David C. Burris is a full-time instructor of philosophy and religious studies at Arizona Western College in Yuma, AZ, as well as a faculty associate in the program of Organizational Leadership at Arizona State University.

David Carroll Cochran (1)

David Carroll Cochran teaches politics and directs the Archbishop Kucera Center for Catholic Intellectual and Spiritual Life at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa.

David Closson (1)

David Closson serves as the Director of Christian Ethics and Biblical Worldview at Family Research Council where he researches and writes on life, human sexuality, religious liberty, and related issues from a biblical worldview. His writing has appeared at Fox News, National Review, Real Clear Politics, The Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, The Gospel Coalition, and Townhall. David is a regular guest on Washington Watch, FRC's national radio program heard on 757 stations in forty-seven states. David is completing a Ph.D. in Christian Ethics at Southwestern Baptist ...

David Corey (1)

David Corey is a professor of political science in the Honors College at Baylor University. He is the author of The Sophists in Plato’s Dialogues and (with J. Daryl Charles) The Just War Tradition.

David Dollahite (1)

David C. Dollahite, PhD, is Camilla Eyring Kimball Professor of Family Life at Brigham Young University where he teaches classes and conducts research on the nexus of religion and family life. He is Co-Director (with Dr. Loren Marks) of the American Families of Faith Project (http://AmericanFamiliesofFaith.byu.edu), an ongoing national research endeavor on how religious beliefs, spiritual practices, and faith communities influence marriage and family life. He received the Eliza R. Snow Fellowship for his research on religion and family relationships. ...

David French (1)

David French is a New York Times columnist, a lawyer, and a veteran of the Iraq War.

David G. Dalin (1)

Dr. David Dalin, historian and rabbi, is the author, co-author, or editor of twelve books, most recently Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court, from Brandeis to Kagan. which was selected as a finalist for the 2017 National Jewish Book Award. He is currently a Senior Research Fellow at Brandeis University.

David Gordon (1)

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

David Henderson (1)

David Henderson is a contributor to Humanum and Ph.D. candidate at the John Paul II Institute for Studies in Marriage and Family in Washington, D.C.

David Hershenov (1)

David Hershenov is a professor of philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

David Kern (1)

David Kern is director of the Circe Institute’s multimedia initiatives (podcast host, web-content manager, magazine editor, etc). He often writes about film, television, books, and other culture-related topics, and has been published by Christ and Pop Culture, Think Christian, Relevant, and elsewhere.

David Schaefer (1)

David Lewis Schaefer is Professor of Political Science at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA, where he teaches courses on the history of political philosophy and American political thought. He received his B.A. with honors from Cornell University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago. A three-time recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, he has also been awarded research grants from numerous other foundations. Dr. Schaefer’s most important authored books are The Political Philosophy of Montaigne (Cornell University Press, 1990; reprinted 2019) and ...

David Phillips (1)

David Phillips is an appellate attorney in San Diego. A native Californian, David graduated from Pepperdine University (B.A., Philosophy; Political Science) and Westminster Seminary California (M.A., Theological Studies) before attending law school at Harvard. He served as President of the Harvard Federalist Society, Supreme Court Chair of the Harvard Law Review, and was awarded Best Oralist in the Ames Moot Court Competition. After law school, David clerked at the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and the D.C. Circuit, and then for Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. at the U.S. Supreme Court. David ...

David Talcott (1)

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

David VanDrunen (1)

David VanDrunen (JD, PhD) is the Robert B. Strimple Professor of Systematic Theology and Christian Ethics at Westminster Seminary California, where he has served since 2001. He is the author or editor of twelve books, most recently Politics after Christendom: Political Theology in a Fractured World (Zondervan Academic, 2020).

David Wu (1)

David Wu is the Operations Director for the C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State at the Scalia Law School, George Mason University. Previously he served as a high-level appointee for three governors in three states, policy director for a mayor, and as the acting Assistant Secretary at the United States Department of Agriculture. In addition, he has held many private sector roles in finance and for start-ups.

Dawn Stefanowicz (1)

Dawn Stefanowicz is an internationally recognized speaker and author. She is a member of the Testimonial Committee of the International Children’s Rights Institute. Her book, 

Daniel A. Drain (1)

Dr. Daniel A. Drain grew up in Toledo, OH and converted to Catholicism at age 17. After initial studies in Philosophy and Theology at DeSales University, he attended the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family, earning both an MTS and PhD. A scholar of Hans Urs von Balthasar's theology, the themes of his research and publication also include eschatology, the nature of Catholic education, sex and gender issues, and fundamental theology. His first book, “Saving Finite Freedom: Hope, Freedom, and Salvation in Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Theology of Redemption” is forthcoming from Wipf & Stock. ...

Deborah Savage (1)

Deborah Savage is a professor of philosophy and pastoral ministry in the St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity at the University of St. Thomas.

Denise Shick (1)

Denise Shick is author of My Daddy’s Secret, When Hope Seems Lost, and Understanding Gender Confusion. She also directs Help 4 Families Ministry.

Dennis Uhlman (1)

Dennis Uhlman lives in Columbia, South Carolina with his wife Stacey and his two children, Ruth and Parker. Dennis graduated from Worcester State University with a degree in History and received his master’s degree in Education from Lesley University. He is currently pursuing a Masters in Divinity from Columbia International University. Dennis currently teaches high school history and is active in his local church.

Derek Bekebrede (1)

Derek Bekebrede majored in economics at Harvard University.

Derek T. Muller (1)

Derek T. Muller is an associate professor of law at Pepperdine University School of Law. Professor Muller's research and writing focus on election law, particularly federalism and the role of states in the administration of elections. His work has appeared in the Arizona Law Review, Indiana Law Journal, the Arizona State Law Journal, the Florida State University Law Review, the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, Fordham Law Review, and the peer-reviewed Election Law Journal. His opinion pieces ...

Derryck Green (1)

Derryck Green received his M.A. in Theological Studies in Comparative Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary. He received his Doctor of Ministry from Azusa Pacific Seminary. He is currently enrolled at Liberty University pursuing his Master of Theology.

David Farias (1)

David Farias holds a graduate degree in Theology from Holy Apostles College & Seminary and is currently a doctoral student in Theology at Pontifex University. His research interests include apologetics, systematic theology, moral theology, Catholic sexual ethics, as well as the interplay between science and faith. Mr. Farias is also an avid Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner in which he holds a 3rd degree black belt.

Dhananjay Jagannathan (1)

Dhananjay Jagannathan teaches philosophy at Columbia. His essays on music, politics, religion, and literature have appeared in Plough, Comment, and Commonweal, and he co-writes the Substack newsletter The Line of Beauty with the novelist Tara Isabella Burton. His first book, Aristotle's Practical Epistemology, was published by Oxford University Press in 2024. His next book, Culture as Conversation, concerns cultural identity and cultural appropriation and will be published by Penguin Press in 2026.

Dietrich von Hildebrand (1)

Dietrich von Hildebrand (1889-1977), born in Florence, was the son of renowned German sculptor Adolf von Hildebrand. A leading student of the philosophers Edmund Husserl and Max Scheler, he took up the “great questions” – about truth, freedom, conscience, community, love, beauty – with a freshness that allowed him to break new ground, especially in ethics, but also in epistemology, social philosophy, and aesthetics.

Douglas Kmiec (1)

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

Dominican Nuns (1)

The Dominican Nuns of St. Dominic’s Monastery, Linden, VA.

Donald L. Drakeman (1)

Donald L. Drakeman is Distinguished Research Professor in the Program on Constitutional Studies at the University of Notre Dame, and the author of Why We Need the Humanities: Life Science, Law and the Common Good

Donald W. Landry (2)

Donald W. Landry, MD, PhD, is Hamilton Southworth Professor of Medicine, Chair Emeritus of the Department of Medicine, and Director of the Burch-Lodge Center for Human Longevity at Columbia University.

Douglas Johnson (1)

Douglas Johnson is the Federal Legislative Director of the National Right to Life Committee.

Dr. Jill Simons (1)

Dr. Jill Simons is executive director of the American College of Pediatricians.

Paul Siewers (1)

Priest Dr. Paul Siewers is Orthodox Christian chaplain at Bucknell University where he is a professor specializing in Christian literature, and pastor of an Orthodox mission in Pennsylvania. His views are his own.

Stephen Hildebrand (1)

Dr. Stephen Hildebrand received a B.A. in Philosophy and Mathematics in 1995 from the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. He did his Master’s and Doctoral work at Fordham University, graduating in 2002 with a degree in Historical Theology with an emphasis on the early Church. He has published several books and translations, mostly on St. Basil the Great. Since 2001 he has taught theology at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, serving as chair of the Department of Theology from 2015-2021, Dean of the School of Theology and Philosophy 2022-2023, and currently as Vice-President for Academic Affairs.

Daniel Robinson (1)

Professor Daniel N. Robinson (born March 9, 1937 and died September 17, 2019) was a member of the Philosophy Faculty, University of Oxford, and Visiting Senior Member of Linacre College.

Duncan Stroik (1)

Duncan G. Stroik is a practicing architect, author, and Professor of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame. His work includes Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity Chapel in Santa Paula, California, the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and Christ Chapel at Hillsdale College. Stroik is the founding editor of Sacred Architecture Journal and author of The Church Building as a Sacred Place: Beauty, Transcendence, and the Eternal.

Dwight G. Duncan (1)

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

E. Gregory Wallace (1)

E. Christian Brugger is Senior Research Fellow of Ethics and the Culture of Life Foundation in Washington, D.C.

Eric Hutchinson (1)

E.J. Hutchinson is an Associate Professor of Classics at Hillsdale College (Hillsdale, MI), where he also directs the Collegiate Scholars Program. His research focuses on Classical reception in Late Antiquity and Early Modernity, and he is the editor and translator of Niels Hemmingsen's On the Law of Nature: A Demonstrative Method (CLP Academic, 2018).

Edward A. Morse (1)

Edward A. Morse is a professor of law at Creighton University School of Law in Omaha, Nebraska, where he holds the McGrath North Endowed Chair in Business Law. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Thomas More Society, a national public interest law firm.

Edward J. Hamilton (1)

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

Eileen Reuter (1)

Eileen Reuter is a doctoral candidate in Philosophy and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research focuses on feminist theory, single-sex education for girls, and Catholic metaphysics.

Elizabeth Goyette (1)

Elizabeth Goyette is a PhD candidate in political science at Baylor University. Her major interest is political theory, especially the ancients. She also works in politics and literature, and American politics and constitutional law.

Elizabeth Lev (1)

Elizabeth Lev is an art historian who lives in Rome and teaches for the University of Mary Italian Campus. She is a licensed tour guide and author of four books, including How Catholic Art Saved the Faith. 

Elizabeth Schlueter (2)

Elizabeth Schlueter is a homemaker, homeschooler, mother of eight and a Michigan State Leader for CanaVox. 

Ellyn Arevalo (1)

Ellyn Arevalo is a research assistant associated with the University of Texas at Austin’s Population Research Center and a Lab Manager in the university’s human development and family sciences department.

Emily Carrington (1)

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

Emily DeArdo (1)

Emily M. DeArdo is the author of Living Memento Mori: My Journey Through the Stations of the Cross. A native of central Ohio, she is a graduate of Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, where she studied Political Science and English Literature. She writes at emilymdeardo.com.

Emily Zinos (1)

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

Emma Waters (1)

Emma Waters is a Senior Research Associate in the Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family at the Heritage Foundation.

Emmett McGroarty (3)

Emmett J. McGroarty is an attorney and Director of Research and Planning at The Institute for Human Ecology at The Catholic University of America.

Enoch Hill (1)

Enoch Hill is an Associate Professor of Economics at Wheaton College. He is interested in the intersection of faith and economics and is currently researching patterns in church attendance and giving surrounding the COVID pandemic.

Eric Patterson (1)

Eric Patterson, Ph.D. serves as Executive Vice President of the Religious Freedom Institute. Patterson is scholar-at-large and past Dean of the Robertson School of Government at Regent University and a Research Fellow at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs. Patterson’s interest in the intersection of religion, ethics, and foreign policy is informed by two stints at the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, work in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Congo, Angola, and elsewhere. His government service includes over twenty years as an officer and commander in the Air National Guard and ...

Eric R. Claeys (1)

Eric Claeys is Professor of Law at George Mason University.

Ethics and Public Policy Center (1)

Founded in 1976, the Ethics and Public Policy Center is Washington, D.C.’s premier institute working to apply the riches of the Judeo-Christian tradition to contemporary questions of law, culture, and politics, in pursuit of America’s continued civic and cultural renewal.

Eva Marie Haine (1)

Eva Marie Haine received her B.A. in Art History from Princeton University and an M.A. in Liberal Arts from St. John's College. She lives in Alton, IL with her husband and three children. She writes at www.outoflivingbooks.com.

Evelyn Behling (1)

Evelyn Behling is an events coordinator living in Princeton, New Jersey.

Farr Curlin (1)

Farr Curlin is Trent Professor of Medical Humanities, Medicine, and Divinity at Duke University. He practices palliative medicine, and he is working with colleagues to develop an interdisciplinary community of scholarship and training focused on the intersection of medicine, ethics, and theology.

Five Anonymous Moms (1)

Flagg Taylor (1)

Flagg Taylor is Associate Professor of Political Science at Skidmore College and Director of the Periclean Honors Forum. He's the host of the Enduring Interest podcast.

John Kartje (1)

Fr. Kartje is a priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago. Since 2015 he has served as Rector of Mundelein Seminary, where he also teaches sacred scripture. He holds doctorate degrees in Astrophysics (Univ. of Chicago) and Biblical Studies (Catholic Univ. of America).

Jose Lim (1)

Jose M. Lim received his STB from the Pontifical Gregorian University and an STL in moral theology from the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome. Prior to his theological studies, he received a BSN from Rutgers University and served as a registered nurse in the field of cardiology. His research interests include the history of moral theology, the development of bioethics, and the work of Elio Sgreccia. He serves as a Roman Catholic priest in the Diocese of Metuchen.

Frank Cannon (1)

Frank Cannon is the president of American Principles Project, a conservative organization that works to advance human dignity through public policy.

Gabriela García Escobar (1)

Gabriela García Escobar is a Professor of International Law at the Panamerican University of Mexico. She is a PhD candidate at the Law Faculty of the University of Geneva. She holds a Masters of International Law from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies of Geneva, and a Bachelor of Laws from the Panamerican University.

Gene Schaerr (1)

Gene Schaerr, a married father and grandfather, is a Washington, DC attorney specializing in Supreme Court, appellate and pre-appellate litigation. 

Gerhard Müller (1)

Gerhard Ludwig Cardinal Müller is former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (Photo Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA).

Gianna Garcia (1)

Gianna Garcia is currently a senior in high school; graduation anticipated for May 2024. Gianna has participated in the Austin Institute high school summer program (summer of 2021), is currently a participant in the John Witherspoon Fellowship (2022-present) and also attended the inaugural high school summer seminar for the Houston Institute (summer of 2023). She has mentored young girls through various volunteer opportunities throughout middle and high school. Gianna is the second of eight children and plans on following her older sister in pursuing a philosophy degree; however, Gianna hopes to attend her parents' alma mater, The University of Saint Thomas, in Houston, ...

Giovanni DelPiero (1)

Giovanni DelPiero is a Sophomore attending the University of Dallas. He’s a double major in Politics and Theology and a Concentration in Ethics. He’s written reviews for OnePeterFive and Areo Magazine, and is the co-host and co-founder of “The Weekly Papist” podcast. He can be reached by email at gdelpiero@udallas.edu.

Gladden Pappin (1)

Gladden Pappin is associate professor of politics at the University of Dallas. He is also deputy editor of American Affairs, which he cofounded in 2017.

Glenn Loury (1)

Glenn C. Loury is Merton P. Stoltz Professor of Economics at Brown University. He holds the B.A. in Mathematics (Northwestern) and the Ph.D. in Economics (M.I.T). As an economic theorist he has published widely and lectured throughout the world on his research. He is also among America’s leading critics writing on racial inequality. He has been elected as a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economics Association, as a Member of the American Philosophical Society and of the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations, and as a Fellow of the Econometric Society and of the American ...

Gloria Purvis (1)

Gloria Purvis is an author, commentator, and the host and executive producer of The Gloria Purvis Podcast in collaboration with America Media. Through her media presence, she has been a strong Catholic voice for life issues, religious liberty, and racial justice. She has appeared in numerous media outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, PBS Newshour, NPR, Newsweek, Deseret News, Fox News, Catholic Answers Live, The National Catholic Reporter, Our Sunday Visitor, The National Catholic Register, EWTN News Nightly and hosted Morning Glory, an international radio show. She is also a consultant ...

Grace Melton (1)

Grace Melton serves as Senior Associate for Social Issues at the United Nations in the DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society at The Heritage Foundation, where she covers religious liberty, life, marriage, and family issues.

Gracy Olmstead (1)

Grace Olmstead is a journalist who focuses on farming, localism, and family. Her writing has been published in The American Conservative, The Week, The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Review, and The Wall Street Journal, among others. A native of rural Idaho, she now lives outside Washington, DC, with her husband and three children.

Graham Walker (1)

Graham Walker is Executive Director of the Independent Institute. He was previously President of Patrick Henry College. He has been a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania and Catholic University of America, a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, and a visiting scholar at AEI in Washington.

Grattan Brown (1)

Grattan T. Brown is a Catholic theologian, educated in the liberal arts tradition, who researches morality and the humanities in order to write, teach, and consult about ethics issues, especially bioethics. ...

Grayson Walker (1)

Grayson P. Walker currently clerks on the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals. He previously served as Deputy General Counsel to Oklahoma Governor J. Kevin Stitt, to whom Grayson provided strategic counsel on legal, policy, and ethical matters. Before law school, Grayson worked as a middle school teacher, campus minister, and research assistant in the Texas House of Representatives. He holds degrees from Southern Methodist University's Dedman College, Knox Theological Seminary, and the University of Oklahoma College of Law.

Gregor Puppinck (1)

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

Gregory Roper (1)

Gregory Roper has taught English at the University of Dallas since August 2000. A scholar of Chaucer and the Gawain-poet, he is the author of The Writer's Workshop: Imitating Your Way to Better Writing, and the forthcoming Mastering the Four Arguments, both from ISI Books.

Guillaume de Thieulloy (1)

Guillaume de Thieulloy has a PhD in political science. Author of several books about the relationship between spiritual and temporal powers, he works as a staffer in the French Senate and runs a group of media outlets.

Gunnar B. Gundersen (1)

Gunnar Gundersen is an Affiliated Scholar and member of the Fellowship Faculty at the James Wilson Institute on Natural Rights and the American Founding. He is also Partner at Gundersen & Gundersen LLP, where he represents clients on intellectual property matters, including before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Gwyneth Spaeder (1)

Dr. Gwyneth A. Spaeder is a Pediatrician in Raleigh, NC. She attended the University of Dallas and graduated with a degree in Politics. She then received her medical degree from The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and remained there to complete her Pediatric Residency. She has a strong interest in bioethics, and has been a contributing author and guest editor for the National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly.

Hannah Howard (1)

Hannah Howard is a research associate with the Charlotte Lozier Institute. Prior to joining the CLI team, Hannah was a fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal where her latest research focused on the relationship between culture, technology, and end-of-life care. Additionally, Hannah interned and worked in the Center for Health Policy Studies at the Heritage Foundation; her research at Heritage focused on policy and ethics in end-of-life care. Hannah holds an MS in bioethics from the University of Mary, a graduate certificate in health care ethics from the National Catholic Bioethics Center, and a BA in liberal ...

Hannah Norman-Krause (1)

Hannah Norman-Krause is a Ph.D. candidate at Baylor University, studying American Political Thought and Constitutional Law. Her dissertation focuses on the Supreme Court's characterization of religion in its Establishment Clause jurisprudence.

Hans S. Roegele (1)

Hans S. Roegele practices high-end residential design in New York City. He has been involved in the design of urban infill projects, resorts, and churches.

Hans Zeiger (1)

Hans Zeiger is president of the Jack Miller Center, a nationwide network of historians, scholars of American political thought, and civics teachers who are committed to educating the next generation in the core texts and ideas of the American political tradition.

Haroon Moghul (1)

Haroon Moghul is a Senior Correspondent for Religion Dispatches and a Fellow at both the Center on National Security at Fordham Law and the Institute for ...

Harrison Garlick (1)

Deacon Harrison Garlick is a husband and father who serves as the Chancellor and general counsel for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tulsa. He is the host of Ascend: The Great Books Podcast and lives in rural Oklahoma.

Harrison Kleiner (2)

Harrison Kleiner is an Associate Vice Provost for General Education, Associate Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Liberal Arts Program at Utah State University. He has an M.A. in philosophy from Boston College and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Purdue University.

Harry D'Agostino (1)

Harry D'Agostino is a double bassist and principle songwriter for the band "Upstate", and a co-owner of Mercurial Coffee, a small coffee roastery in Highland, NY. He is currently pursuing a Masters in Theological Studies from St. Bernards School of Theology and Ministry in Rochester, NY.

Heather E. Heying (1)

Heather E. Heying was a professor of evolutionary biology at The Evergreen State College for 15 years, where she led undergraduates on adventures both metaphorical and literal; she resigned in 2017 in the wake of campus-wide protests. She writes and speaks on evolution, both human and not, philosophy of science, education, and ideology, among other topics.

Heather Smith (1)

Heather Smith is an undergraduate student at Brigham Young University studying family life with an emphasis on human development in the School of Family Life.

Helen Watt (1)

Dr Helen Watt is Senior Research Fellow at the Anscombe Bioethics Centre and a Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford. Her publications include The Ethics of Pregnancy, Abortion and Childbirth and the edited collection Cooperation, Complicity and Conscience.

Hesham A. Hassaballa (1)

Hesham Hassaballa is both a practicing pulmonary and critical care physician and a writer in Chicago. His latest book is Noble Brother: The Story of the Prophet Muhammad in Poetry (Faithful Word Press). ...

Hilary Towers (2)

Dr. Hilary Towers is a developmental psychologist and mother of five children. Her scholarly background is in behavioral genetic research on individual adjustment behaviors and in the area of marriage and parenting relationships. ...

Howe Whitman (1)

Howe D. Whitman III is an assistant editor of National Affairs and a Public Interest Fellow.

Humira Noorestani (1)

Humira Noorestani is a Washington-based corporate attorney, founder of DigiCounsel, and a member of the American Council on Women Peace and Security. She received US Congressional recognition in 2004 for her work related to social justice and women’s rights.

Iain Bernhoft (1)

Iain Bernhoft heads the Writing and Communication department at American Philanthropic, a firm which aims to strengthen civil society. He also teaches in the Humanities Program at Providence College.

Ian Marcus Corbin (1)

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

Ignatius Joseph III Younan (1)

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

Ilan Wurman (1)

Ilan Wurman is a student at Stanford Law School.

J. Daniel Hammond (1)

J. Daniel Hammond is a Hultquist Family Professor in the Department of Economics at Wake Forest University. He writes on the history of economics, particularly the history of Chicago School associated with Milton Friedman, George J. Stigler, and Gary S. Becker.

J. Walter Sterling (1)

J. Walter Sterling is a tutor and former Dean St. John’s College, Santa Fe, where he has been a member of the teaching faculty since 2003. He has focused on defending St. John’s classical and radical model of liberal education while helping to pilot the college through a successful tuition reset, financial restructuring, and a $325 million capital campaign. He holds a B.A. from St. John’s, Annapolis, an M.A. in Philosophy from Emory University, and an MBA from the University of Notre Dame. He has taught at Loyola University Maryland, Temple University, and Gwynedd Mercy University. He ...

Jack Butler (1)

Jack Butler is submissions editor at National Review Online, media fellow for the Institute for Human Ecology, and a 2022–2023 Robert Novak Journalism Fellow at the Fund for American Studies. From Cincinnati, Ohio, he is a graduate of Hillsdale College.

Jack Gerard (1)

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

Jacob Wolf (1)

Jacob Wolf is Assistant Professor of Government in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Honors College at Regent University in Virginia Beach, VA. Prior to this, he was the 2020-2021 John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Fellow in the James Madison Program at Princeton University. His expertise lies at the nexus of American politics and political philosophy, and his scholarly research investigates the theological origins of modern politics and the political origins of modern theology. He writes frequently on how democracy and individualism have changed the beliefs and practices of religion in modern America. He received his Ph.D. ...

Jacob Reses (1)

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

Jacob Wood (1)

Jacob W. Wood is an associate professor of theology at Franciscan University of Steubenville. He holds an M.Theol. (Hons) from the University of St. Andrews and a Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from the Catholic University of America. A specialist in the theological anthropology of Thomas Aquinas and the Augustinian-Thomistic tradition, he has published both scholarly and popular articles on a range of topics, including nature and grace, the analogy of being, and sacramental and political theology. His most recent book is To Stir a Restless Heart: Thomas Aquinas and Henri ...

Jacqueline C. Rivers (1)

Jacqueline C. Rivers is the Executive Director of the Seymour Institute for Black Church and Policy Studies. She holds a PhD from Harvard University.

Jacquelyn Lee (1)

Jacquelyn Lee is currently a Junior Fellow at First Things. She interned at the Abbey of Regina Laudis after graduating from the University of Dallas.

James Baresel (1)

James Baresel is a freelance writer. Publications for which he has written include Tudor Life, American History, Catholic World Report, Fine Art Connoisseur, Military History, Catholic Herald, Claremont Review of Books, New Eastern Europe, and America’s Civil War.

James Gottry (1)

James Gottry is an attorney and writer with Alliance Defending Freedom, an alliance-building legal organization that advocates for the right of people to freely live out their faith.

James Greenaway (1)

James Greenaway is professor of philosophy in St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas, where he also holds the San José-Lonergan Chair in Catholic Philosophy. He teaches medieval philosophy, philosophy of law, and political philosophy, as well as various other courses. He is the author of A Philosophy of Belonging: Persons, Politics, and Cosmos (The University of Notre Dame Press, 2023) and The Differentiation of Authority: The Medieval Turn Toward Existence (The Catholic University of America Press, 2012). He is the editor of, and contributor to Human Dignity, Education, and Political Society: A Philosophical Defense ...

James Lopez (1)

James Lopez is pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Political Science at Indiana University and a Masters Degree in Philosophy at Biola University. He is the president of Biola Anscombe Society and a research ...

James Orr (1)

Dr. James Orr is Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Religion in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge.

James P. McGlone (1)

James P. McGlone studied at Harvard College.

James Wood (1)

Rev. James R. Wood is a doctoral candidate in theology at Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary (ThM, 2018), and a pastor in the Presbyterian Church in America. His writings focus on political theology, ecclesiology, and sacramental theology and have appeared in the Journal of Reformed Theology, Pro Ecclesia: A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology, Logos: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies, Mere Orthodoxy, Theopolis, Covenant (weblog of Living Church), and Providence.

James Tillman (1)

James Tillman blogs at Seeking Omniscience.

Jason Richwine (1)

Jason Richwine is a public policy analyst in Washington, DC.

Jayd Henricks (1)

Jayd Henricks is the President of Catholic Laity and Clergy for Renewal. He served for eleven years at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, six as the executive director of government relations.

Jean Bethke Elshtain (1)

Jean Bethke Elshtain was the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago, a Senior Fellow of the Witherspoon Institute, and a founding editorial board member of Public Discourse.

Jeff Polet (1)

Jeff Polet is Director of the Ford Leadership Forum at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation. Previously he was a Professor of Political Science at Hope College, and before that at Malone College in Canton, OH. A native of West Michigan, he received his BA from Calvin College and his MA and Ph.D. from The Catholic University of America in Washington DC. In addition to his teaching, he has published on a wide range of scholarly and popular topics. These include Contemporary European Political Thought, American Political Thought, the American Founding, education theory and policy, constitutional law, religion and ...

Jeff Shafer (1)

Jeff Shafer is an attorney with Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF).

Jeffery J. Ventrella (1)

Jeffery J. Ventrella, J.D., Ph.D., is senior vice president of student training and development for Alliance Defending Freedom and author of The Cathedral Builder: Pursuing Cultural Beauty.

Jeffrey A. Hart (1)

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

Jeffrey Barrows (1)

Jeffrey J. Barrows, DO, MA (Ethics) serves as Senior Vice President of Bioethics and Public Policy for Christian Medical & Dental Associations. Dr. Barrows is an obstetrician/gynecologist, author, educator, medical ethicist and speaker. Dr. Barrows is the founder of Gracehaven, an organization that assists victims of domestic minor sex trafficking in Ohio. In 2014, he served as a member of the Technical Working Group on health and human trafficking under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families. In addition, he is a founding board member of HEALTrafficking. In 2020, Dr. Barrows published a novel ...

Jeffrey Bristol (1)

Jeffrey Bristol holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology, works as an independent scholar and practices law in Tampa, Florida. He also serves as an officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve.

Jeffry Morrison (1)

Dr. Jeffry Morrison is Professor of American Studies at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia, and Director of Academics at the federal government’s James Madison Foundation in Alexandria, Virginia. He earned the M.A. and Ph.D. (with distinction) in Government from Georgetown University. Morrison has also held faculty or administrative positions at Princeton University, Regent University, the U.S. Air Force Academy, and Georgetown University. He has published as author or editor six books on American political thought and culture, as well as chapters, articles, and reviews in scholarly publications in the fields of history, political science, ...

Jennifer Newsome Martin (1)

Dr. Jennifer Newsome Martin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Theology and the Program of Liberal Studies (Great Books) at the University of Notre Dame. Her first book, Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Critical Appropriation of Russian Religious Thought (University of Notre Dame Press, 2015), was one of ten winners internationally of the 2017 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise. She is co-editor of An Apocalypse of Love: Essays in Honor of Cyril O’ Regan (Herder & Herder, 2018) and the second edition of the forthcoming 

Jesse Covington (1)

Jesse Covington is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Augustinian Scholars honors program at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California.

Jody Benson (1)

Jody C. Benson is a freelance writer and editor with a master’s degree in bioethics and humanities from the Medical College of Wisconsin. She is the author of Behold: A Reflection Journal Where Wonder, Creation, and Stewardship Meet. She also writes monthly essays on Substack that ponder the creative life. Learn more at jodycbenson.com.

Joe Garecht (1)

Joe Garecht is the President of Garecht Fundraising Associates and a well-known speaker and author on non-profit development and political fundraising. He is the author of How to Raise More Money for Any Non-Profit (2013) and How to Win Any Election (2008). You can find him online at http://www.garecht.com.

John Singleton (1)

John Singleton is a technology entrepreneur. He is a graduate of Mount St. Mary's University with a BS in Business/Finance and an MBA. He also earned an MLA from St. John's College in Annapolis.

John Andrews (1)

John Andrews is a 2009-2010 National Review Institute Washington fellow and a nuclear analyst at the U.S. Air Force Headquarters.

John Nunes (1)

The Rev John Arthur Nunes, PhD, is a Lutheran pastor and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy. He has served as the President of Concordia College New York, as the President and CEO of Lutheran World Relief, and as a professor at Valparaiso University. Recent books are, with Alberto Garcia, Wittenberg Meets the World: Reimagining the Reformation from the Margins (2017) and Meant for More: In, With, and Under the Ordinary (2020). Born in Montego Bay, Jamaica, he is a graduate of Concordia College, Ann Arbor MI (BA), Concordia Seminary, St Catharines, ON, Canada (MDiv), and the ...

John B. Shannon (1)

John B. Shannon is an economics and Latin major at Hillsdale College and an intern and editorial assistant at the Journal of Markets & Morality at the ...

John Bruchalski (1)

John Bruchalski, M.D., earned his medical degree from the University of South Alabama College of Medicine in 1987. He completed his OB/GYN residency at Eastern Virginia Medical Center and the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1991. He received board certification in 1993. He is the founder and president of Divine Mercy Care and the founder of Tepeyac OB/GYN in Fairfax, Virginia.

John C. Pinheiro (1)

John C. Pinheiro is Director of Research at the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty. He is the author of books and articles on the early American republic, including the award-winning Missionaries of Republicanism: A Religious History of the Mexican-American War (Oxford, 2014). He is the author most recently of, The American Experiment in Ordered Liberty (Acton Institute, 2019).

John J. Dilulio, Jr. (1)

John J. Dilulio, Jr. taught American politics at the university level for thirty-five years and is a co-author of American Government: Institutions and Policies (Cengage), now in its 18th edition.

John Dinan (1)

John Dinan is Professor of Politics at Wake Forest University. His research focuses on state constitutionalism, federalism, and American political development. He is the author of several books, including State Constitutional Politics: Governing by Amendment in the American States and The American State Constitutional Tradition,

John Ehrett (1)

John Ehrett is editor-in-chief of Conciliar Post, an online publication dedicated to cultivating meaningful dialogue across Christian traditions. He has written for a wide variety of publications and websites, including The American Conservative, Washington Monthly, and the Claremont Review of Books. When not writing, he works as an attorney in Washington, D.C. He is a graduate of Patrick Henry College and Yale Law School, and is completing further graduate studies at the Institute of Lutheran Theology.

John F. Crosby (1)

John F. Crosby is Professor of Philosophy at Franciscan University of Steubenville and Senior Fellow at the Dietrich von Hildebrand Legacy Project.

John G. Brungardt (1)

John Brungardt is a postdoctoral fellow at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and he researches, writes, and lectures about the philosophy of cosmology. He and his wife live in Santiago, Chile.

John G. Crandall (1)

John Crandall, a supervisor for the US Postal Service, is currently pursuing a graduate degree at Biola University in La Mirada, California.

John Goerke (1)

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

John Jalsevac (1)

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

John Keown (1)

John Lee (1)

John Lee is an educator and a minister. He has taught at various institutions and currently serves as an administrator at the Geneva School of Manhattan, a Christian Classical school. He obtained his Ph.D. in history from Yale University. He lives in New York City and East Hampton with his wife and two children.

John Breen (1)

John M. Breen is the Georgia Reithal Professor of Law at Loyola University Chicago School of Law where he has taught since 1996. He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and Harvard Law School. His scholarly interests include statutory interpretation, abortion, law and religion, Catholic social thought, legal ethics, and legal education. He is currently working on a book with Lee Strang on the history of Catholic legal education in the United States.

John Mac Ghlionn (1)

John Mac Ghlionn is a researcher and essayist. His work has been published by outlets like the New York Post, South China Morning Post, The Sydney Morning Herald, and National Review. He is a regular contributor to The American Conservative.

John-Paul Heil (1)

John-Paul Heil studies at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies in Marriage and Family in Washington, DC. He received his PhD in history from the University of Chicago and was a 2021-22 Fulbright scholar to Italy. His essays and reviews have appeared in Time, Smithsonian, The Week, and Los Angeles Review of Books.

John Pitney (1)

John J. Pitney, Jr. is the Roy P. Crocker Professor of American Politics at Claremont McKenna College. He received a Ph.D. from Yale University and a B.A. in political science from Union College. He has authored or coauthored a number of books, including Is Congress Broken? The Virtues and Defects of Partisanship and Gridlock (Brookings, 2017).

John Sebastian Milbank (1)

Sebastian Milbank is Executive Editor of The Critic. He tweets at @JSMilbank.

John Sikorski (1)

John Sikorski is a moral theologian and an assistant teaching professor in the Business Ethics and Society Program at the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame.

John von Heyking (1)

John von Heyking is Professor of Political Science at the University of Lethbridge (Canada), where he teaches political philosophy. He is author of Comprehensive Judgment and Absolute Selflessness: Winston Churchill on Politics as Friendship (2018), The Form of Politics: Aristotle and Plato on Friendship (2016), and Augustine and Politics as Longing in the World (2001). He has coedited numerous volumes including two volumes of the

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Jon Fennell (1)

Jon Fennell, professor emeritus at Hillsdale College and author of essays ranging from Rousseau to Rorty, has, in recent years, written extensively on Michael Polanyi. He may be contacted at jfennell@hillsdale.edu.

Jonathan Ashbach (1)

Jonathan Ashbach is a Ph.D. student at Hillsdale College. He holds a M.A. in Politics from Hillsdale and an M.A. in Christian Apologetics from Biola University. His work has ...

Jonathan G. Lange (1)

Jonathan G. Lange is a pastor of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod. He has raised his family in Wyoming for two decades, serving parishes in Evanston and Kemmerer. He is active in the ...

Jonathan Newman (1)

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

Jonathan Hannah (1)

Jonathan Hannah is Program Director of the Program on Church, State & Society at the Notre Dame Law School. He also teaches an experiential learning course, Philanthropy and the Common Good, in the Department of Political Science. Hannah holds a B.A. from Saint Xavier University, an M.Sc. from Lewis University, a J.D. from the University of Detroit Mercy, and is completing an LL.M. at the University of Notre Dame.

Jonathan Yudelman (1)

Jonathan Yudelman serves as a teaching postdoctoral fellow in the Political Science department of Baylor University. His research interests include ancient, medieval and modern political theory, as well as Biblical political thought. He is currently preparing a book manuscript,  Hobbes and the Birth of Ideological Politics, that proposes a new reading of Thomas Hobbes to shed light on the character of modern political order and its present crises.

Jordan Lorence (1)

Jordan Lorence is Senior Counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom.

Jordan Wales (1)

Jordan Wales is an assistant professor of theology in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Hillsdale College. He received his PhD in historical theology from the University of Notre Dame.

Tomás Henríquez (1)

Tomás Henríquez is a senior counsel for ADF International. He holds a law degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and an LL.M. in international human rights law from Georgetown University.

Joseph Griffith (1)

Joseph Griffith is an assistant professor of politics at The King’s College in New York City.

Joseph Woodard (1)

Joe Woodard earned a PhD at Claremont, spent fifteen years as an academic (Brock, Bethany), fifteen as a journalist (Alberta Report, Calgary Herald), and eleven as a tribunal judge (Citizenship Canada). He helped his wife Kathy raise ten children in Calgary, Canada, where they now enjoy the grandchildren and care for his mother (aged 101). He was involved in several school start-ups, always taught adjunct, and now much enjoys moderating online Great Books seminars with Angelicum Academy.

Joseph Postell (1)

Joseph Postell is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He is the editor, with Bradley C.S. Watson, of Rediscovering Political Economy (Lexington Books, 2011).

Joseph Simmons (1)

Joseph Simmons is a doctoral candidate in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. His work focuses on British high modernist poetry, philosophical skepticism, and poetic communication and community.

Joseph W. Yockey (1)

Joseph W. Yockey is a Professor of Law and the Michael and Brenda Sandler Faculty Fellow in Corporate Law at the University of Iowa College of Law.

Joshua Bowman (1)

Joshua Bowman is a technology professional and contributor to CatholicVote.org, where he writes about the intersections of faith, politics, history, and technology. He has also been featured by the American Principles Project ...

Joshua Sohn (1)

Joshua L. Sohn is a Trial Attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice. He has published with the Institute for Family Studies and authored seven law review articles, which have been cited in Supreme Court briefs, Federal court opinions, and legal treatises. He graduated with distinction from Stanford University and magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. The views expressed herein are his own and should not be taken to represent those of the U.S. Department of Justice.

Joshua Schulz (1)

Joshua Schulz is an assistant professor of philosophy at DeSales University.

Joshua Wester (1)

Joshua B. Wester serves as Chair of Research in Christian Ethics at the ERLC. He is also pursuing a Th.M. in Public Theology at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Josh is married to McCaffity, and they have two children.

Josiah Peterson (1)

Josiah Peterson is a graduate student and assistant debate coach at St. John’s University in Queens, NY, writing his thesis on constitutional jurisprudence and abortion.

Jude Schwalbach (1)

Jude Schwalbach is a policy analyst at Reason Foundation, a non-profit think tank advancing free minds and free markets. Schwalbach previously worked at The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Education Policy where his research focused on expanding educational opportunities for K-12 students and reducing the federal footprint in education. He also taught high school in Phoenix, Arizona. Jude's writings have appeared in The Hill, Washington Times, redefinED, Orange County Register, and Real Clear Education.

Julia (1)

Julia writes this testimony to give hope to women facing similar struggles, and gratitude to those people who continue to love them, wounds and all.

Julia Mosby (1)

Julia Dunn Mosby serves as Program Officer of the Love and Fidelity Network. She graduated from Princeton University with a B.A. in English and a certificate in Theater.

Joseph Wright (1)

Joseph Wright is a visiting fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame and Assistant Professor of Political Science at Penn State University. ...

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Karen Taliaferro (1)

Karen Taliaferro is assistant professor in the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University.  Her forthcoming book is titled The Possibility of Religious Freedom: Early Natural Law and the Abrahamic Faiths.

Katerina Levinson (1)

Katerina is a DPhil Candidate in Medieval and Modern Languages (Spanish) at Wolfson College, Oxford as a Barry Scholar. She previously received her MSt in Spanish at The Queen's College, Oxford, and her BA in Great Texts and Spanish from the University Scholars Program at Baylor University. She is an alumna of the Fulbright Spain ETA Fellowship and the John Jay Fellows Program. Katerina has presented her research on English and Spanish literature in Spain, the United Kingdom, and the US.

Kathleen Curran Sweeney (1)

Kathleen Curran Sweeney holds a Master's degree in Theological Studies from the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family, an MA in History from the University of Washington, and a BA from Seattle University.

Kathleen Fenton (1)

Kathleen Fenton, MD, is a pediatric-certified thoracic and cardiac surgeon working with children and adults. She is a member of Women Speak for Themselves.

Katy Carl (1)

Katy Carl is the editor in chief of Dappled Things magazine and the author of As Earth Without Water, a novel (Wiseblood Books, 2021), Fragile Objects, short stories (Wiseblood, 2023), and Praying the Great O Antiphons: My Soul Magnifies the Lord (Catholic Truth Society, 2021). She is a senior affiliate fellow of Penn's Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society and holds an MFA in fiction from the University of St. Thomas—Houston.

Kevin J. Burns (1)

Kevin J. Burns is Associate Professor of Political Science at Benedictine College.

Kelly Bartlett (1)

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

Kelsey L. (1)

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

Kerri Christopher (1)

Kerri Christopher (MA, STL) has taught theology at universities in the US and UK. In 2018, she founded Clarity Life Consulting to help individuals learn to discern well, discover their priorities, and make better plans to move forward with purpose and peace. She writes regularly about these topics at Cultivating Clarity, where she also hosts “Life Outside the Box,” an interview series with women who are choosing to live ...

Kevin Burke (1)

Kevin Burke, LSW, is the co-founder of Rachel’s Vineyard and has worked in post-abortion ministry for more than two decades.

Kevin Roberts (1)

Kevin D. Roberts, Ph.D., is President of The Heritage Foundation. An American historian, he previously served as CEO of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, President of Wyoming Catholic College, and Founder and Headmaster of John Paul the Great Academy (Lafayette, La.).

Kevin Vallier (1)

Kevin Vallier is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University, where he directs their program in Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law. Vallier’s interests lie primarily in political philosophy, ethics, philosophy of religion, and philosophy, politics, and economics (PPE). His most recent book is All the Kingdoms of the World: On Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism (Oxford UP 2023). For more information, see kevinvallier.com or follow him @kvallier on Twitter.

Kathryn Francisco (1)

Katy Francisco is a woman born from donor conception who has done advocacy work sharing her story and supporting restorative reproductive medicine. She served six years as Operations Manager for CanaVox, the marriage and family project of the Witherspoon Institute, and three years for the International Institute for Restorative Reproductive Medicine as secretariat. She met her husband while living in NJ and now supports him full-time, as well as raising their son, a spunky toddler. They live in sunny Naples, FL.

Kim Colby (1)

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

Kirstin Carlson (1)

Kirstin Carlson teaches in the Department of Medical Humanities at Creighton University. She works in the areas of ethics, aesthetics, and philosophy of religion. She is also a watercolor painter (working under the name Kirstin McPherson).

Kyle Duncan (1)

Kyle Duncan is a lawyer in private practice in Washington, DC.

Lara Ryd (1)

Lara Ryd is a wife, mother, and writer living in Hillsdale, Michigan.

Laura Haynes (1)

Laura Haynes, Ph.D. is a California psychologist who is retired from clinical practice with more than 40 years experience. She reviews research, writes, and speaks internationally on sexual orientation, gender identity, and religious freedom. Dr. Haynes has testified at legislative committee hearings in several states representing the International Federation for Therapeutic and Counseling Choice, the National Task Force for Therapy Equality, and the California Counseling Coalition.

Laura van der Linden (1)

Laura is an Honors student in nineteenth-century literature at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia, where she received her BA in History and English in December 2023.

Laura Wolk (1)

Laura Wolk works for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty in Washington, D.C. She is the first blind woman to clerk at the Supreme Court of the United States and a proud alumna of Notre Dame Law School. All views are her own, and not those of her employer or clients.

Lawrence King (1)

Lawrence King completed his Ph.D. in systematic theology at the Catholic University of America in 2016. His dissertation focused on the authoritative weight of non-definitive magisterial teachings. He lives in Los Angeles.

Lawrence M. Mead (1)

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

Leah Libresco Sargeant (3)

Leah Libresco Sargeant is the author of Building the Benedict Option. She runs Other Feminisms, a substack community focused on the dignity of interdependence.

Lee Ward (1)

Lee Ward is a Professor of Political Science at Baylor University. 

Leslie Grimard (1)

Leslie Grimard is a writer in Washington, DC.

Logan Gage (1)

Logan Paul Gage is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Franciscan University of Steubenville. His research focuses primarily on epistemology and natural theology.

Lucas Morel (2)

Lucas E. Morel is the John K. Boardman, Jr. Professor of Politics and head of the Politics Department at Washington and Lee University. He currently serves on the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission, which will plan activities to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America. His most recent book is Lincoln and the American Founding (2020), and he has written for the Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, and Richmond Times-Dispatch.

Luis A. Silva (1)

Luis A. Silva was a 2013-2014 William E. Simon Visiting Fellow in Religion and Public Life at Princeton University and Professor of Constitutional Law at Universidad de los Andes Law ...

Lydia Dugdale (2)

Lydia S. Dugdale is a physician and ethicist. She directs the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at Columbia University. She edited the book Dying in the Twenty-First Century (MIT Press, 2015) and is author of The Lost Art of Dying: Reviving Forgotten Wisdom (HarperOne, 2020).

Lynn D. Wardle (1)

Lynn D. Wardle is the Bruce C. Hafen Professor of Law at the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University, managing editor of the International Journal of the Jurisprudence of the Family, and a member of the American Law Institute.

Lynn Keenan (1)

Dr Lynn Keenan, board certified in sleep and internal medicine, has been faculty for over 25 years, and has a passion for women's health.

M. Anthony Mills (1)

M. Anthony Mills is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a senior fellow at the Pepperdine School of Public Policy.

Manfred Svensson (1)

Manfred Svensson is Associate Researcher at the Instituto de Estudios de la Sociedad and Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Andes, Chile. He is co-editor with David VanDrunen of Aquinas Among the Protestants (Blackwell, 2017).

Margaret A. Hagen (1)

Margaret A. Hagen, JD, PhD, is Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University.

Margaux Killackey (1)

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

Marguerite Hattouni Spencer (1)

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

Mariana and Alfredo (1)

Mariana and Alfredo are adoptive parents living in South America who participate in CanaVox reading groups.

Marie Smith (1)

Marie Smith is the Director of the Parliamentary Network for Critical Issues (PNCI) and works with legislators around the world to advance respect for life in law and policy.

Marion D. Boteju (1)

Marion D. Boteju is Executive Director of the American Principles Project.

Mark Batey (1)

Mark Batey is a brand consultant with a background in advertising and marketing. He was educated at Oxford University and is the author of Brand Meaning: Meaning, Myth and Mystique in Today’s Brands, 2nd Edition (Routledge).

Mark Hall (1)

Mark David Hall is Herbert Hoover Distinguished Professor of Politics and Faculty Fellow in the Honors Program at George Fox University. He is also Associated Faculty at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University and a Senior Fellow at Baylor University’s Institute for Studies of Religion. In 2022-2023, he will be the Garwood Visiting Fellow at Princeton University’s James Madison Program and a Visiting Scholar at the Mercatus Center. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including Did America Have a Christian Founding?: Separating Modern Myth from Historical Truth

Mark Grannis (1)

Mark Grannis is a teacher of history and philosophy at The Heights School in Potomac, Maryland. He has practiced law for over thirty years, most of them at the Washington, DC firm he co-founded in 1998. He earned his bachelor's degree from Georgetown University and his law degree from the University of Michigan Law School. His work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Baltimore Sun, the Washington Times, and U.S. News & World Report, among other publications.

Mark Mitchell (1)

Mark T. Mitchell is Dean of Academic Affairs at Patrick Henry College and the author of several books including Plutocratic Socialism: The Future of Private Property and the Fate of the Middle Class; Power and Purity: The Unholy Marriage that Spawned America's Social Justice Warriors; and The Limits of Liberalism: Tradition, Individualism, and the Crisis of Freedom. He is the co-founder of Front Porch Republic.

Martin Rhonheimer (1)

Martin Rhonheimer was born in 1950 in Zürich, Switzerland. He studied History, Philosophy, Political Science, and Theology in Zürich and Rome. He holds a Doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Zürich. In 1983, he was ordained a Catholic priest incardinated in the Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei. From 1990 to 2020, he was Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome. He remains associated with the University as a visiting professor. In 2014, he co-founded in Vienna the Austrian ...

Mary Myler (1)

Mary Frances Myler is a postgraduate fellow with the Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government at the University of Notre Dame. Her writing has been published in the American Conservative, the National Catholic Register, Law and Liberty, the Federalist, and the American Spectator, among other publications. Follow her on Twitter @mfmyler.

Mary Lefkowitz (1)

Mary Lefkowitz, Professor of Classical Studies emerita at Wellesley College, is the author of Greek Gods, Human Lives and Euripides and the Gods.

Mary O’Callaghan (2)

Mary O'Callaghan, Ph.D., is a developmental psychologist and a Public Policy Fellow of the Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame.

Mary Tillotson (1)

Mary C. Tillotson is an MA Theology student at Sacred Heart Major Seminary, ESL instructor, and freelance writer.

Matt Bowman (1)

Matt Bowman is senior legal counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom.

Matthew Arbo (1)

Dr. Matthew Arbo serves as Associate Professor of Theological Studies and Director of the Center for Faith and Public Life at Oklahoma Baptist University.

Matthew Berry (1)

Matthew Berry is currently an Affiliate Assistant Professor of Politics at the University of Dallas.

Matthew Hoberg (1)

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

Matthew Hall (1)

Matthew J. Hall (Ph.D., University of Kentucky) is Provost and Senior Vice President of Academic Administration at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.

Matthew Loftus (1)

Matthew Loftus is a family doctor who teaches and practices in Baltimore and East Africa. He tweets @matthew_loftus and is a regular contributor at Mere Orthodoxy. He currently trains health professionals in Kenya; you can read more about his work and writing at MatthewAndMaggie.org.

Matthew McManus (1)

Matthew McManus recently acquired his PhD in Socio-Legal Studies from York University. After completing his postdoctoral research with the MITACS Centre, he worked as a human rights consultant. McManus his currently working on ...

Matthew Mehan (1)

Matthew Mehan is the Worsham Teaching Fellow at Hillsdale College’s Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship in DC, and Director of the Jackson Scholars Program at The Heights School. He’s the author of Mr. Mehan’s Mildly Amusing Mythical Mammals. He tweets peaceably from his perch, @MTMehan.

Matthew Ristuccia (1)

Matthew P. Ristuccia, D.Min, is an ordained reverend and has served as the Senior Pastor of Stone Hill Church (formerly Westerly Road Church), Princeton, NJ, since 1985. Most people know him as "Pastor Matt."

Matthew Schneider (1)

Fr. Mathew P. Schneider, LC, is a priest with the Legionaries of Christ. He is currently writing a doctoral thesis in moral theology via Regina Apostolorum in Rome while living in metro Philadelphia. He has written extensively on various Catholic topics and has an upcoming book on prayer with Pauline Press.

Matthew Rose (1)

Matthew Rose is Director and Senior Fellow of the Berkeley Institute.

Maura Shea (1)

Maura Shea taught English literature for eight years and is now Manager of Student and Alumni Affairs at The Witherspoon Institute. She writes about the intersection of literature, education and faith at mysteriesandmanners.wordpress.com.

Meg McDonnell (1)

Meg McDonnell is the communications director for the Chiaroscuro Foundation. McDonnell was a 2011 Robert Novak Journalism Fellow, during which she explored marriage among young adults in America.

Megan Brand (1)

Megan Brand is a Thomas W. Smith Postdoctoral Research Associate at the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University.

Megan M. Arago (1)

Megan M. Arago is a doctoral candidate in Politics at the University of Dallas.

Melanie Baker (1)

Melanie Baker is a contributing writer of HLI America, an educational initiative of Human Life International. She writes for the Truth and Charity Forum.

Mikael Good (1)

Mikael Rose Good is a research assistant for Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. She earned a BA in political philosophy from Patrick Henry College.

Michael Helfand (1)

Michael A. Helfand is the Brenden Mann Foundation Chair in Law and Religion, and the Co-Director of the Nootbaar Institute on Law, Religion and Ethics at Pepperdine Caruso School of Law; Florence Rogatz Visiting Professor at Yale Law School; Senior Legal Advisor for the Teach Coalition; and Senior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute.

Michael Maibach (1)

Michael C. Maibach is a Distinguished Fellow on American Federalism at Save Our States. He is also a Trustee & Managing Director of the James Wilson Institute.

Michael C. Munger (1)

Michael C. Munger is Director of the Program in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics and Professor of Economics, Political Science, and Public Policy at Duke University.

Michael D. Stark (1)

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

Michael F. Bird (1)

Rev. Dr. Michael Bird is an Academic Dean and Lecturer in Theology at Ridley College in Melbourne, Australia.

Michael Farris (1)

Michael P. Farris is president and CEO of Alliance Defending Freedom. He brings to the role a diverse background as an effective litigator, educator, public advocate, and communicator, and is widely recognized for his successful work on both the national and international stage. Farris was founding president of both the Home School Legal Defense Association and Patrick Henry College. He graduated from Western Washington State College magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in political science, followed by a Juris Doctor from Gonzaga University (with honors). He also earned an LL.M. in public international law (with honors) from ...

Michael Hallett (1)

Dr. Michael Hallett is Professor of Criminology & Criminal Justice at the University of North Florida. Dr. Hallett has written over $1 million in grants & contracts and published in numerous books and journals including Punishment & Society, Justice Quarterly, Critical Criminology, Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, The Prison Journal, and others. Dr. Hallett led a three-year study on site at America’s largest maximum-security prison, Angola (aka Louisiana State Penitentiary) exploring the religious lives of long-term inmates. His most recent book stemming from this research is titled

Michael I. Krauss (1)

Michael I. Krauss is Professor of Law at Scalia Law School, George Mason University.

Michael McHale (1)

Michael McHale is a Blackstone Legal Fellow with Alliance Defending Freedom. He is a graduate of the Nebraska College of Law and currently works in the Nebraska State Legislature.

Michael Krom (1)

Michael Pakaluk (1)

Michael Pakaluk is Professor of Ethics and Social Philosophy and Associate Dean of Faculty at the Busch School of Business in The Catholic University of America. He lives in Hyattsville, MD, with his wife, Catherine, also a professor at the university, and their eight children.

Michael Platt (1)

Michael Platt has taught Shakespeare and Nietzsche at Dartmouth, Heidelberg, and the University of Dallas. Contact him at drmichaelplatt1942@gmail.com.

Michael Robert Hepner (1)

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

Michael Scaperlanda (1)

Michael Scaperlanda holds the Gene and Elaine Edwards Family Chair in Law at the University of Oklahoma College of Law.

Michael McConnell (1)

Michael W. McConnell is the Richard and Frances Mallery Professor and Director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. From 2002 to 2009, he served as Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. His book, The President Who Would Not Be King: Executive Power Under the Constitution, was published by Princeton University Press in 2020.

Michelle Kirtley (1)

Michelle Kirtley, PhD, is a senior research analyst in the Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology at Duke University. Prior to joining Duke, Michelle was a consultant on bioethics and public policy at the Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity and a science and health policy advisor for two members of Congress.

Miriam Grossman (3)

Miriam Grossman, MD, is a medical doctor with training in pediatrics and child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry. She is the author of Unprotected and You’re Teaching My Child WHAT? Dr. Grossman can be followed on her website, 

Mike Johns (1)

Fr. Mike Johns is a priest for the Diocese of Little Rock, AR. He was ordained in 2018 after studies at the University of Dallas and Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology.

Molly Sheahan (1)

Molly C. Sheahan is a graduate student at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family. She previously worked for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Office of Life, Justice & Peace as well as on Capitol Hill. Molly received her B.A. in Communication Arts from the Franciscan University of Steubenville.

Monica Klem (1)

Monica Klem is an independent scholar whose research has focused on ordinary women’s negotiations of moral questions in private and civic life during the nineteenth century. She is a co-author of Pity For Evil: Suffrage, Abortion, and Women's Empowerment in Reconstruction America.

Monica Rafie (1)

Monica Rafie is a founding partner in the work of BeNotAfraidMinistry, an outreach to parents grappling with prenatal diagnosis. Monica is a contributing writer for HLI America, an educational initiative of Human Life International. Her recent ...

Monica Snyder (1)

Monica Snyder is the executive director of Secular Pro-Life, an atheist-led anti-abortion organization. Secular Pro-Life seeks to build coalitions of people of any faith and no faith who oppose abortion, and specifically, to create space for atheists, agnostics, and other "non-traditional" pro-life people to do anti-abortion work.

Monique Robles, MD (1)

Monique Robles, MD, is a board certified pediatric critical care physician. She received her bachelor of science degree in biology from Texas Woman’s University, where she participated in athletics and graduated Magna Cum Laude. She then earned her medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, TX. While there, she founded the organization, Physicians for Life. She completed her residency in pediatrics and fellowship in pediatric critical care at Children’s Medical Center of Dallas, TX. She received a certificate in Health Care Ethics from the National Catholic Bioethics Center and went on to complete ...

Mustafa Akyol (1)

Mustafa Akyol is a Turkish journalist, and the author of Islam without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty (W.W. Norton, 2011).

Nadya Williams (1)

Nadya Williams is a homeschooling mother and writer. She is the author of Cultural Christians in the Early Church and Mothers, Children and the Body Politic: Ancient Christianity and the Recovery of Human Dignity. She is Managing Editor for Current, where she also edits The Arena blog, and contributing editor for Providence Magazine and ...

Nasser Behnegar (1)

Nasser Behnegar is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Boston College and the author of Leo Strauss, Max Weber, and the Scientific Study of Politics published by the University of Chicago Press.

Nasser Hussain (1)

Dr. Nasser Hussain is the 2021-2022 Thomas W. Smith Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer in Politics in the James Madison Program at Princeton University.

Nathan Finn (1)

Nathan A. Finn is Provost and Dean of the University Faculty at North Greenville University in Tigerville, SC. He has published widely on Baptist history and theology. He also serves as a research fellow for the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission.

Nathan Swanson (1)

Nathan Swanson is a Minnesota attorney. The views expressed here are his own and do not necessarily reflect the views of his employer or of any organizations with which he is associated.

Nicholas Higgins (1)

Dr. Nicholas Higgins is married to Anita, is the father of five children, and holds a PhD from the University of North Texas and an MA from University of Dallas. He is ...

Nicholas Spencer (1)

Nicholas is a Family Pastor in Cincinnati, Ohio and a Ph.D. student at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary studying Ethics and Public Theology.

Nicole Penn (1)

Nicole Penn is the Program Manager for AEI's Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies division. Prior to this, she served as a research assistant for AEI Senior Fellow Lynne Cheney. Nicole also previously served as an Editorial Apprentice at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. She holds an M.A. in History from the College of William and Mary and a B.A. in History and Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia. Ms. Penn is a member of American Purpose's editorial board and her writings have appeared in American Purpose, Law & Liberty, The Bulwark, The American ...

Nicole Garnett (1)

Nicole Stelle Garnett is the John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame. Her teaching and research focus on education policy and topics related to property law, land use, and urban development. In addition to dozens of scholarly articles, she is the author of two books, Lost Classroom, Lost Community: Catholic Schools' Importance in Urban America (University of Chicago Press, 2014) and Ordering the City: Land Use, Policing and the Restoration ...

Nigel Biggar (1)

Nigel Biggar is Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology, and ...

Nikos Salingaros (1)

Nikos Salingaros is an architectural theorist, a long-time associate of Christopher Alexander, and a mathematical physicist by original profession.

Nathan Stone (1)

Nathan Stone is a storyteller who looks at culture, politics, religion and history from a different POV on his YouTube Channel, Nate on the Stone, and who exercises the moral imagination in his writing. A lover of books, music and the outdoors (especially with dogs) he earned a Masters in American History from Liberty University in 2016. Subscribe to his Channel and follow him on Twitter.

Nuriddeen Knight (1)

Nuriddeen Knight is an alumna of Teachers College, Columbia University, where she earned an MA in psychology with a focus on the child and the family.

O. Alan Noble (1)

Dr. O. Alan Noble is Associate Professor of English at Oklahoma Baptist University, Editor-in-Chief of Christ and Pop Culture, and author of Disruptive Witness: Speaking Truth in a Distracted Age, InterVarsity Press. Dr. Noble has published articles at The Atlantic, VOX, First Things, and Christianity Today. He lives with his wife and three children.

Oliver Olivarez (1)

Oliver Olivarez is a character in GK Chesteron’s The Surprise. The author using this pseudonym holds a PhD in political theory and yearns for the day when young academics may speak freely without ...

Olivia Glunz (1)

Olivia Glunz is an A.B. candidate in History at Harvard College.

Päivi Räsänen (1)

Dr. Päivi Räsänen has been a Member of the Finnish Parliament since 1995, having previously worked as a medical doctor. From 2004 to 2015, Räsänen was the chairwoman of the Finnish Christian Democrats and served for four years as the Minister of the Interior of Finland between 2011-2015. As the Minister of the Interior, Räsänen was responsible for internal security and migration, church affairs at the Ministry of Education and Culture, and matters relating to customs in the Ministry of Finance. Räsänen lives in Riihimäki with her husband, Niilo. They have five children ...

Patience Sunne (1)

Patience Sunne is the Engagement Director at Them Before Us, a nonprofit dedicated to defending children's rights. She lives in Iowa with her husband.

Patrick A. Trueman (1)

Patrick A. Trueman is President of Morality in Media. He served as chief of the United States Department of Justice, Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Criminal Division, Washington, D. C. from 1987 to 1993.

Patrick Gray (1)

Patrick Gray is a professor in the humanities program at Rhodes College and co-teaches a “Great Books” course at the West Tennessee Penitentiary for Women. He is the author of The Routledge Guidebook to the New Testament (2017).

Patrick Toner (1)

Patrick lives with his family on Dumb Ox Farm, and teaches philosophy at Wake Forest University. He teaches a wide array of classes and writes about St. Thomas Aquinas, contemporary analytic metaphysics, GK Chesterton and Distributism. He's also still hard at work on a book about the art of Norman Rockwell, written more or less from the standpoint of a Chestertonian. Patrick is a graduate of Mr. Jefferson's university (UVa PhD), where he was blessed to work with Trenton Merricks; and earned his BA and MA at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, where he wrote his master's thesis under the ...

Paul A. Rahe (1)

Paul A. Rahe is Professor of History at Hillsdale College. He is the author of Republics Ancient and Modern (1992), Against Throne and Altar (2008), Montesquieu and the Logic of Liberty (2009), Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift (2009), and a series of books on ancient Sparta.

Paul C. Vitz (1)

Emeritus Professor of Psychology at New York University; Senior Scholar, Institute for the Psychological Sciences.

Paul Moreno (1)

Paul Moreno is the William and Berniece Grewcock Chair in Constitutional Hisory at Hillsdale College.

Paul Oslington (1)

Paul Oslington is Professor of Economics and Theology at Alphacrucis College, the national college of the Pentecostal movement in Australia. Previously he was Professor of Economics at Australian Catholic University. In 2020 he is in Princeton as a resident member of the Center of Theological Inquiry. His PhD in Economics was completed at the University of Sydney, and Doctor of Theology through University of Divinity, Melbourne. Publications include the books The Theory of International Trade and Unemployment, Adam Smith as Theologian, Oxford Handbook of Economics and Christianity, Political Economy as Natural Theology: Smith Malthus and their Followers, and current projects include ...

Paul Seaton (1)

Paul Seaton is an independent scholar who specializes in political philosophy. He has written extensively on contemporary French thinkers Pierre Manent, Rèmi Brague, and Chantal Delsol, as well as translated many of their works.  His most recent book is Public Philosophy and Patriotism (St Augustine Press, 2024).  

Paul Sturdee (1)

Paul G. Sturdee is a retired teacher of philosophy. He entered academia after a varied career in manufacturing industry, health care, and medical/technical sales; he has also worked in financial services. During the 1990s he taught on undergraduate and graduate courses at the University of Warwick in the UK, and was the Reviews Editor of Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology. His current interests range from the relationship between the idea of a moral framework and that of the sovereign individual, to wider cultural concerns about the impact of political ideologies on the moral relationship between individual and community, ...

Pavlos Papadopoulos (1)

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

Peter Berkowitz (1)

Peter Berkowitz is the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. In 2019-2021, he served as the Director of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff, executive secretary of the department's Commission on Unalienable Rights, and senior adviser to the Secretary of State. A 2017 recipient of the Bradley Prize, he serves as director of studies for The Public Interest Fellowship and is a contributor at RealClearPolitics. He is the author of Constitutional Conservatism: Liberty, Self-Government, and Political Moderation (Hoover, 2013);

Peter Harrison (1)

Peter Harrison is Emeritus Professor of History and Philosophy at the University of Queensland and a Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Notre Dame, Australia.

Peter J. Smyczek (1)

Peter J. Smyczek is a First Lieutenant in the United States Air Force Reserves and is attached as an IMA to the 42ndABW Legal Office, Maxwell AFB, AL. As a civilian, he serves as a Prosecutor with the Attorney General’s Office for the State of Alabama.

Peter Jon Mitchell (1)

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

Peter Myers (1)

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

Peter Ramey (1)

Peter Ramey is Associate Professor of English at Northern State University. His publications are focused on the Old English Riddles and Beowulf. He is currently at work on The Word-Hoard Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary.

Philip A. Rolnick (1)

Philip Rolnick (PhD, Duke) is Professor of Theology at the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota), Adjunct at the Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity, and Director of the Science and Theology Network (STN). He has been a Member of Notre Dame’s Seminar on Human Distinctiveness and Princeton’s Center of Theological Inquiry. His books include: Analogical Possibilities: How Words Refer to God; Person, Grace, and God; and Origins: God, Evolution, and the Question of the Cosmos

Phillip Williamson (1)

Philip Williamson is a litigator based in Cincinnati, Ohio. He received his BA in Theology, Philosophy, and Political Science from Ouachita Baptist University, and his JD from the University of Virginia School of Law.

Philip Tartaglia (1)

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

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Ryan T. Anderson, Ph.D., President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center Father Nicanor Pier Giorgio Austriaco, O.P., Ph.D., S.T.D., Professor of Biology and of Theology, Providence College Maureen Condic, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Neurobiology, University of Utah Father Kevin Flannery, S.J., DPhil, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Pontifical Gregorian University Robert P. George, J.D., D.Phil, D.C.L., D.Litt., McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University O. Carter Snead, J.D., Professor of Law and Director of the de ...

Hershel Lutch (1)

Rabbi Hershel Lutch is the Chief Financial and Operating Officer of the Tikvah Fund, a New York- and Jerusalem-based think tank and educational institution.  He is a member of the executive committee of the Rabbinical Council of America, and his scholarly articles, opinion pieces, and interviews have appeared in a wide variety of publications.  A native Bostonian, he lives in Baltimore with his wife and children.

Rachana Chhin (1)

Rachana Chhin serves as Legal Counsel, UN, for ADF International in New York. In this role, he engages in written and oral advocacy, drafts interventions and submissions for the UN and related institutions, and provides counsel on issues related to life, family, religious liberty, free speech, and parental rights. Chhin is a graduate of the International Studies and Great Texts of the Western Tradition programs at Baylor University. He attained his J.D. and M.A. in Catholic Studies from the University of St. Thomas (MN) and his LL.M. ...

Rachel Cambre (1)

Rachel Alexander Cambre, Ph.D., is a visiting fellow in the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies and the Center for Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation.

Rachel Coleman (1)

Rachel M. Coleman is an assistant professor of theology at Assumption University in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Rafi Eis (1)

Rabbi Rafi Eis is the executive director of the Herzl Institute.

Ralph Wood (1)

Until his recent retirement, Ralph C. Wood had served as University Professor of Theology and Literature at Baylor since 1998. He holds the B.A. and M.A. from Texas A&M University-Commerce as well as the A.M. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He has also taught at Wake Forest University, Samford University, Providence College, and Regent College in Vancouver. His major books are devoted to Flannery O’Connor, J.R.R. Tolkien, and G.K Chesterton. For his 50 years in the classroom, he received the 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Conference on Christianity and Literature.

Reggie Littlejohn (1)

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

Renee Waller (1)

Renée Waller is a Southern California native living in Washington, D.C. She is currently studying the Humanities at the University of Dallas and is an alumna of Biola University and the Torrey Honors College.

Rev. Eugene F. Rivers (1)

Rev. Eugene F. Rivers is Director of the Seymour Institute for Black Church and Policy Studies.

Richard B. Corradi (1)

Richard B. Corradi, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio.

Richard J. Mouw (1)

Richard Mouw is the author of more than twenty books and is a senior research fellow at the Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity and Politics at Calvin University. Previously, Mouw served as the President of Fuller Theological Seminary (1993-2013) and directed their Institute of Faith and Public Life (2013-2020). A philosopher and scholar, Dr. Mouw has been an editor of Reformed Journal and served for many years as a panelist for The Washington Post’s online forum “On Faith.” He received the Abraham Kuyper Prize for Excellence in ...

Richard N. Williams (1)

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

Richard Eva (1)

Rich is a philosophy doctoral student and teaching assistant at Baylor University, specializing in ethics and political philosophy. He graduated with honors from Princeton University and has published philosophical work in Southwest Philosophy Review and the International Journal on Humanistic Ideology.

Richard Reeves (1)

Richard V. Reeves is a senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution, where he holds the John C. and Nancy D. Whitehead Chair and leads the Boys and Men Project. His research focuses on boys and men, inequality, and social mobility.

Richard Weikart (1)

Richard Weikart is professor of modern European history at California State University, Stanislaus. He is author of six books, including The Death of Humanity: And the Case for Life and Hitler's Religion. His current book project will provide a history and critique of euthanasia and assisted suicide.

Richard Whitekettle (1)

Richard Whitekettle holds a PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Yale University. He is Professor of Religion at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI.

Rida Fozi (1)

Rida Fozi is an active member of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) and a frequent writer for ICNA.org. A resident of New York, she graduated from Brooklyn College cum laude with a bachelor of arts in English.

Rita Joseph (1)

Rita Joseph is author of "Human Rights and the Unborn Child" (Leiden & Boston, Martinus Nijhoff, 2009). In addition to being a wife and mother over forty years, she has been a writer, a part-time lecturer, and a human rights advocate specializing in the philosophy and language of human rights law. As an adviser to various delegations at the United Nations, she has had extensive experience in unpacking and negotiating the texts of numerous human rights documents. While at the UN in New York, she became interested in researching the founding instruments of the United States—the Declaration of Independence and ...

Rivka Edelman (1)

Rivka Edelman is a visiting professor of literature and writing. She has published widely under a different name. She is also a feminist, a children’s rights activist, and an active member in the network of adult children raised in LBGT households.

Rebecca G. Oas (1)

Rebecca Oas is the Associate Director of Research for the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam) in Washington, D.C. Before joining C-Fam, Rebecca earned her doctorate in Genetics and Molecular Biology at Emory University. She has written for Human Life International as a Fellow of HLI America and is has served as a Contributing Editor for HLI. Among her focus areas are global maternal and child health and family planning, and her articles on these topics have appeared in such publications as the New Atlantis, the Hill, and the Christian Journal of Global Health. Rebecca is a graduate ...

Rob Schwarzwalder (1)

Rob Schwarzwalder is Senior Vice President of the Family Research Council.

Robert Clarke (1)

Robert Clarke is a UK-qualified barrister and serves as Director of European Advocacy for ADF International from its headquarters in Vienna, Austria. ADF International is a legal advocacy organization that protects fundamental freedoms and promotes the inherent dignity of all people. Follow Rob on Twitter at @Rob_ADFIntl.

Robert Moffit (1)

Robert E. Moffit is a senior fellow at The Heritage Foundation, and former Chairman of the Maryland Health Care Commission (MHCC).  Moffit has long specialized in health care and entitlement programs, especially Medicare. He brings to the health reform effort his government experience as a Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and a senior official of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), where he served during the Reagan administration. Moffit’s articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The ...

Robert Cochran (1)

Robert F. Cochran, Jr. is the Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law Emeritus at Pepperdine University. He has published 10 books and over 60 articles. His books include Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought (with Michael McConnell and Angela Carmella); Agape, Justice, and Law (with Zachary Calo); Faith and Law; Law and the Bible: Justice, Mercy, and Legal Institutions (with David VanDrunen);

Robert G Kennedy (1)

Robert G. Kennedy is professor of Catholic Studies at the University of St. Thomas (MN). He earned his PhD in Medieval Studies at the University of Notre Dame and often writes on professional ethics and the Catholic social tradition. His most recent book is Justice in Taxation (Acton Institute, 2018).

Robert Wilken (1)

Robert Louis Wilken is William R. Kenan Professor Emeritus of the ­History of Christianity at the University of Virginia. 

Roberta Green Ahmanson (1)

Roberta Green Ahmanson is a writer and philanthropist whose public activities are focused on deepening awareness and understanding of the role of religion in public life, the importance of knowing history to understand the present, and the vital role the arts play in shaping human experience. Since 1986, Ahmanson has worked with her husband, Howard, in shaping the granting priorities of his private philanthropy, Fieldstead and Company. In that time, the Ahmansons have sponsored a number of art exhibitions at museums in the U.K. and the United States, including several at their gallery in Irvine, California. A frequent lecturer, Ahmanson ...

Roberta Bayer (1)

Dr. Roberta Bayer is a Garwood Visiting Fellow at the James Madison Program and Associate Professor at Patrick Henry College.

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Roger Severino is director of the Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society, of the Institute for Family, Community, and Opportunity, at the Heritage Foundation.

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Roger Trigg is the author of many philosophy books (latterly on religion in public life, and religious freedom). He is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, and Senior Research Fellow at the Ian Ramsey Centre, University of Oxford. He was Founding President of the British Society for Philosophy of Religion.

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Dr. Ronen Shoval is an Israeli philosopher and a Visiting Fellow in Jewish and Political Thought at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. His research delves into the intricate relationship between theology, politics, and society. Currently, he heads the Argaman Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem. Previously, during 2022-23, he served as an Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer in Politics at Princeton University.

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Rose Brugger is a senior studying philosophy and political theory at Baylor University.

Roger Scruton (1)

Roger Scruton is Research Professor at the Institute for the Psychological Sciences, Arlington, VA.

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Ryan Everson is a seminarian for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix. He is formerly an editor for Alliance Defending Freedom and the president of Phoenix Pro-Life Future.

Ryan J. Marr (1)

Ryan ("Bud") Marr has served as the Director of the National Institute for Newman Studies and Associate Editor of the Newman Studies Journal since September of 2017. He is the author of To Be Perfect Is to Have Changed Often: The Development of John Henry Newman's Ecclesiological Outlook, 1845–1877 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018), and has also contributed essays to Newman and Life in the Spirit (Fortress Press, 2014), Learning from All the Faithful (Pickwick, 2016), and The Oxford Handbook of John Henry Newman (Oxford ...

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Saba Ahmed is a Pakistani-American Muslimah currently pursuing her Patent Attorney career at the US Patent & Trademark Office. She recently completed her LLM in law and government at American University Washington School of Law and obtained her JD from Lewis & Clark Law School, her MBA from the University of Portland, and her BS in electrical engineering and physics from Portland State University in Oregon. She has worked at top law firms, corporations, and government positions for several years in various engineering, management, and legal positions. Saba recently moved to Washington, DC, from Oregon and is living her dream ...

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Salim Furth, Ph.D., is a research fellow in macroeconomics at the Heritage Foundation and is learning to be a father. His opinions do not necessarily reflect those of his employer.

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Sally White is a physician with forty years experience caring for older adults and people struggling with substance abuse issues. She lives in her childhood home on a farm in northern New York where she and her husband homeschooled their children.

Sally Thomas (1)

Sally Thomas is the author of a poetry collection, Motherland, a finalist for the 2018 Able Muse Book Award and forthcoming from Able Muse Press in May 2020. Her poems and other writing have appeared recently in Dappled Things, Forma, Local Culture, Measure Review, North American Anglican, Plough Quarterly, and Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry. She lives with her family in North Carolina.

Salvatore Cordileone (1)

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone was ordained to the priesthood in San Diego on July 9, 1982. He continued his studies at Gregorian University from 1985-89, earning a doctorate in canon law. The Archbishop was appointed Judicial Vicar for the Diocese of San Diego in 1990 and served as an assistant to the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura from 1995-2002. On July 5, 2002, Pope John Paul II appointed him the Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of San Diego, where he served until his appointment as Bishop of Oakland on March 23, 2009. On July 27, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI appointed him as the ninth Archbishop of San Francisco. ...

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

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Sarah Baird is the Associate Dean of Advanced High School Programs at the Tikvah Fund. She previously served as the Impact Officer at Yeshiva University's Straus Center and taught Jewish history and philosophy at the Ramaz School in New York City and Bnei Akiva Schools of Toronto. Sarah is an alumna of the Krauthammer Fellowship (2021-2022) and she has developed several curricula for Tikvah's various educational programs. Sarah lives with her husband in Houston, Texas.

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Sarah Soltis teaches at a classical Christian school in Philadelphia and is pursuing an MFA at the University of St. Thomas in Houston. She has worked as Managing Editor for Front Porch Republic, and her writing has appeared in First Things, Plough, Ekstasis Magazine, and elsewhere.

Sarah Torre (1)

Sarah Torre is a Policy Analyst at the Heritage Foundation.

Scott L. Buchanan (1)

Scott Buchanan is a qualified social worker who currently practices in the public mental health sector. Scott also holds a BA in International Relations (Hons.) from the University of Melbourne, and is presently completing a Masters of Divinity at Ridley Theological College, Melbourne. Some of Scott's other writings can be found at scottlbuchanan.wordpress.com.

Scott F. Crider (1)

Scott F. Crider is Professor of English at the University of Dallas in the Constantin College of Liberal Arts. He took his Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside in 1994. An award-winning teacher at both Riverside and Dallas, he ran UD’s Writing Program and its Seven Arts of Language Program for several years each, and has served as Associate Dean of Constantin College. His areas of specialization are Shakespeare and Rhetorical Studies, and he has written three books: The Office of Assertion: An Art of Rhetoric for the Academic Essay (2005); With What Persuasion: An Essay ...

Scott Hahn (1)

Dr. Scott Hahn is the Fr. Michael Scanlan Professor at Franciscan University of Steubenville and Founder and President of the St. Paul Center. The author and editor of over forty popular and academic books, Dr. Hahn’s works include best-selling titles Rome Sweet Home, The Lamb’s Supper, and Hail Holy Queen.

Scott Roniger (1)

Dr. Scott J. Roniger is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and currently holds the Fr. Robert H. Taylor, S.J. Chair in Philosophy. He has published scholarly articles on Catholic social teaching, Aristotelian metaphysics, phenomenology, Thomistic natural law theory, ethics and political philosophy, and philosophy of literature. He is currently editing a collection of essays by Russell Hittinger entitled On the Dignity of Society: Essays on Catholic Social Teaching. He is also a faculty fellow at the Lumen Christi Institute.

Seamus Hasson (1)

Kevin “Seamus” Hasson is the founder of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, the first-ever pro-bono religious liberty law firm dedicated to defending people of all faiths. Hasson stepped down as president in 2011 due to Parkinson’s, but continues to serve as president emeritus and on the board. Hasson is the author of The Right to be Wrong: Ending the Culture War over Religion in America ...

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Seana Sugrue is Associate Professor of Politics at Ave Maria University, and former Associate Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University.

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Dr. Seow Hon Tan is Associate Professor of Law specializing in legal philosophy at the School of Law, Singapore Management University. Her research focuses on surrogacy, euthanasia, abortion, natural law theory, and legal education. She holds an SJD and an LLM from Harvard Law School, where she was a Byse Fellow and a Landon Gammon Fellow, and an LLB from the National University of Singapore. She is the author of Justice as Friendship: A Theory of Law.

Shane Scott (1)

Shane Scott was born and raised in Central Kentucky. He received an M.A. in Theology from Cincinnati Christian Seminary in 1991, and has preached for churches in Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, and Tennessee. Currently he preaches for the Church of Christ at Valrico, Florida.

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Rabbi Dr. Shimon Cowen is Director of the Institute for Judaism and Civilization in Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of Politics and Universal Ethics, The Theory and Practice of Universal Ethics—the Noahide Laws, and Homosexuality, Marriage and Society. Email: director@ijc.com.au.

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Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Brody is the executive director of Ematai and a columnist for the Jerusalem Post. He is the author, most recently, of Ethics of Our Fighters: A Jewish View on War and Morality (Maggid Books).

Stephen Matter (1)

Stephen Matter holds a research assistant position at the Jack Miller Center, where he researches topics related to civic and liberal education theory and practice. Previously, Stephen worked as a political consultant on matters of higher education policy and other areas more broadly. He has also worked in the Arizona public sphere at various publications, lobbying efforts, and at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law researching constitutional design. He holds two four-year degrees in Political Science and Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership from Barrett, The Honors College at Arizona State University, and he will soon attend Boston College's ...

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Sonja Corbitt is the host of "Evangelista Bible Study" for the CatholicTV network and creator of “the best modernization of lectio,” the LOVE the Word® method and journal. She is a Catholic Scripture teacher, best-selling author, and Telly Award winning broadcaster. Find her at biblestudyevangelista.com, where you can also hear her newest study series on the O Antiphons for Advent.

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St. Teresa of Calcutta founded the Missionaries of Charity, a religious order devoted to serving the poor. She received the the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of her work "in bringing help to suffering humanity."

Stanley Goldfarb (1)

Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, a former Professor and Associate Dean of Curriculum at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine, is chairman of Do No Harm.

Stephanie Murray (1)

Stephanie H. Murray is public policy researcher turned freelance journalist and contributing writer for The Atlantic.

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Stephanie Slade is managing editor at Reason magazine. In 2016, she was selected to the Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship. In 2013, she was named a finalist for the Bastiat Prize for Journalism.

Stephen Austin (1)

Stephen W. Austin is a retired Army officer, father, and grandfather living outside Philadelphia.

Stephen Barr (1)

Stephen M. Barr is a theoretical particle physicist and professor at the University of Delaware. He is the author of “Modern Physics and Ancient Faith.”

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Stephen O. Presley serves as the Senior Fellow for Religion and Public Life at the Center for Religion, Culture & Democracy, and Associate Professor of Church History at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Steven Tucker (1)

Steven Tucker is a UK-based writer whose work has appeared online and in print worldwide. His next book, Hitler's & Stalin's Misuse of Science (Frontline/Pen & Sword), examining the similarities between the ideologically corrupted sciences of the Soviets and Nazis, and the equally ideologically corrupted woke sciences of today, will be published in October 2023.

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Steven Wedgeworth (M.Div, Reformed Theological Seminary) is the Associate Pastor of Faith Reformed Presbyterian Church in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is a board member with the Davenant Institute and has contributed essays for the Journal of Law and Religion, The Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, and The Gospel Coalition.

Suhail A. Khan (1)

Suhail A. Khan serves on the board of directors of the American Conservative Union and as chairman of the Conservative Inclusion Coalition, an organization dedicated to the political involvement of Americans of all ethnic, racial, and faith backgrounds.

Susan E. Wills (1)

Susan E. Wills, Esq., is assistant director for education and outreach at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities.

Suzy Ismail (1)

Suzy is the Founder of Cornerstone, a non-profit communication center. She is the author of many books and has presented at the World Meeting of Families during Pope Francis’ visit to the United States. She works with refugee families at the border of Syria and in the United States in providing integration counseling.

Tadeusz Pacholczyk (1)

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D. currently serves as the Director of Education at The National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia. He is a priest of the diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts. He writes and speaks widely on bioethics and medical ethics. He earned a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Yale University, where he focused on cloning genes for neurotransmitter transporters expressed in the brain. He later worked as a molecular biologist at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. He studied for 5 years in Rome at both the Gregorian University and the Lateran University, where he did advanced work in dogmatic ...

Tapio Puolimatka (1)

Tapio Puolimatka is a Professor of Educational Theory and Tradition at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, and an Adjunct Professor of Practical Philosophy at the University of Helsinki, Finland. His research is mainly in the areas of educational and moral philosophy.

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Taryn DeLong is the co-president and editor-in-chief of Catholic Women in Business, whose mission is to provide Catholic women business owners, professionals, and leaders with the educational and spiritual resources they need to excel in their vocation to business. Her first book, written with her co-president Elise Crawford Gallagher, will be out in fall 2024 from Ave Maria Press. Taryn lives outside Raleigh, North Carolina, with her family.

Therese Cory (1)

Therese Cory is John and Jean Oesterle Associate Professor of Thomistic Studies at the University of Notre Dame, where she also directs the History of Philosophy Forum and The Jacques Maritain Center. She is a member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas.

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Teresa M. Bejan is Professor of Political Theory and a Fellow of Oriel College at the University of Oxford.

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Dr. Thaddeus J. Kozinski is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Wyoming Catholic College and author of The Political Problem of Religious Pluralism: And Why Philosophers Can't Solve It.

Thomas John Paprocki (1)

Bishop Thomas John Paprocki Paprocki is the ninth Bishop of the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois (installed on June 22, 2010). Growing up in Chicago, he was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Chicago in 1978. After ordination, he studied law at DePaul University College of Law and was admitted to the Illinois Bar in 1981. He serves as the Chairman of the Episcopal Advisory Board of Catholic Athletes for Christ. His first book, Holy Goals for Body and Soul: Eight Steps to Connect Sports with God and Faith, was published by Ave Maria Press (Notre Dame, Indiana), in 2013. His second ...

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Theodore Camp (1)

Theodore Camp is a pseudonym for a writer and non-profit employee based in New York City.

Thomas D. Grant (1)

Thomas D. Grant, an international law scholar at the University of Cambridge, is author of Recognition of States: Law and Practice in Debate and Evolution(1999).

Thomas D'Andrea (1)

Thomas D. D’Andrea is a former Visiting Fellow at the James Madison Program of Princeton University and a former fellow of Wolfson College at Cambridge University. He has lectured with the Politics Department at Princeton and in the Department of Moral Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews. His research interests include the moral and political thought of the Aristotelian tradition. He has published articles and reviews in ancient philosophy, medieval philosophy, ethics, and the philosophy of religion. He is considered an expert in the philosophical thought of Alasdair MacIntyre and his book on this matter "

Thomas G. West (1)

Thomas G. West holds the Potter Chair in Politics at Hillsdale College. His Hillsdale faculty page has pdfs of many of his publications. He is the author of three books: Plato’s Apology of Socrates (1979), Vindicating the Founders (1997), and The Political Theory of the American Founding (2017).

Thomas Kohler (1)

Thomas C. Kohler is the Concurrent Professor of Law and Philosophy at Boston College Law School. He is an internationally recognized authority on the labor and employment laws of the United States and other western nations, with an emphasis on German law. He has served as Fulbright Visiting Professor on the law faculty of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität (Frankfurt am Main), the Audi Visiting Professor at the Katholische Universität Eichstätt (Germany) and served as a visiting professor on the faculties of the University of Texas School of Law and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business. ...

Thomas Kidd (1)

Thomas S. Kidd is research professor of church history at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City. His most recent book is Thomas Jefferson: A Biography of Spirit and Flesh.

Thomas Berg (1)

Fr. Berg currently serves as vice rector, professor of moral theology and director of admissions at St Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers, NY. He has published extensively in moral theology, bioethics, seminary formation, and contemporary Church issues. He is author of Hurting in the Church: A Way Forward for Wounded Catholics.

Thomas Holman (1)

Thomas W. Holman is a military veteran pursuing graduate studies in political theory at the Catholic University of America. More of his work can be found at mobtruth.net

Thomas Ward (1)

Thomas M. Ward is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Baylor University, and a Visiting Professor at Hildegard College. He blogs at www.thomasmward.com.

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Tiffany Barron is a graduate student in the Princeton University Department of Politics, studying international relations and comparative politics.

Tim Goeglein (1)

Tim Goeglein is the Vice President for External Relations at Focus on the Family. He served in high-level government posts for the past two decades. He worked as Special Assistant to President George W. Bush, where he was the Deputy Director of the White House Office of Public Liaison.

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Titus Techera is the Executive Director of the American Cinema Foundation, host of the ACF podcasts, a film critic for Law & Liberty and the Acton Institute, contributor to Modern Age, columnist for Return and European Conservative, and editor-in-chief of PostModern Conservative.

Travis Curtright (1)

Travis Curtright, Phd, is Professor of Humanities and Literature at Ave Maria University. He is also the editor of Moreana: Thomas More and Renaiss.

Travis Weber (1)

Travis Weber serves as Vice President for Policy at Family Research Council. He holds a J.D. from Regent University School of Law, and an LL.M. in International Law along with a Certificate in International Human Rights Law from Georgetown University Law Center.

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Trivius Caldwell is an active duty Army officer. Previously, he served as Assistant Professor of English at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He earned a BA in English at Tuskegee University and an MA in Literary Studies at Auburn University.

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Tsh Oxenreider is the author of several books, including Shadow & Light, a guide for the Advent season, and At Home in the World, the story about her family’s year traveling around the world out of backpacks. She’s also a podcaster, writes a long-running newsletter, leads annual bookworm pilgrimages to London, and helps people write their own customized Rules of Life. Learn more at tshoxenreider.com.

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Tyler J. VanderWeele, Ph.D., is the John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Epidemiology in the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Director of the Human Flourishing Program and Co-Director of the Initiative on Health, Spirituality, and Religion at Harvard University. He holds degrees from the University of Oxford, University of Pennsylvania, and ...

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Victor V. Claar is associate professor of economics at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, where he holds the BB&T Distinguished Professorship in Free Enterprise. He is the coauthor of two books: Economics in Christian Perspective and The Keynesian Revolution and Our Empty Economy. Dr. Claar is an elected member of the Mont Pelerin Society and the Philadelphia Society. He also serves on the Research Advisory Board of the James Madison Institute, as an Affiliate Scholar at ...

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W. Justin Dyer, PhD, is an assistant professor at Brigham Young University. He researches topics on family life and teaches family courses as well as graduate statistics courses.

Walter R. Schumm (1)

Walter R. Schumm is a professor of family studies at Kansas State University and a retired colonel, US Army, with over twenty-five military decorations and over 300 scholarly publications and two books, ...

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Wendell Cox is Principal of Demographia and Senior Fellow Urban Reform Institute.

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Weronika Janczuk graduated from NYU in 2013 with a self-designed B.A. in the philosophy of the human person. She worked for five years with FEMM, a non-profit providing education and medical protocols rooted in contemporary advances in reproductive endocrinology, and is a certified FEMM Teacher. She now represents an array of fiction and non-fiction projects as a literary agent.

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Lawyer and award-winning author, Wesley J. Smith, is the host of the Humanize podcast and Chair of the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism. In May 2004, because of his work in bioethics, Smith was named one of the nation’s premier experts in bioengineering by the National Journal. In 2008, the Human Life Foundation named him a Great Defender of Life for his work against assisted suicide. Smith left the practice of law in 1985 to pursue a career in writing and public advocacy. He is the author or coauthor of ...

William Happer (1)

William Happer is the Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics at Princeton University. From 1991 to 1993 he served as director of the Office of Energy Research in the U.S. Department of Energy.

William Allen (1)

Dr. William B. Allen is Emeritus Dean of James Madison College and Emeritus Professor of Political Science at Michigan State University and has been a member of the Mackinac Center Board of Scholars since 1995. Currently, he is a Veritas Fund Senior Professor in the Matthew J. Ryan Center for the Study of Free Institutions and the Public Good at Villanova University and also a Visiting Professor in History and American Government at the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University. Previously, he taught at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California. He earned his Ph.D. in Government from the Claremont Graduate University. ...

William Hay (1)

William Anthony Hay, 2019-2020 James Madison Program Garwood Visiting Fellow, Princeton University is Professor of History at Mississippi State University. His books include Lord Liverpool: A Political Life (2018) and The Whig Revival, 1808-1830 (2005), and he is currently writing a book entitled King George’s Generals: Strategy, Policy and Britain’s War for America, 1763-1781. Elected a fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2009, he is a past-president of the Southern Conference on British Studies. Professor Hay holds a Ph.D. in Modern European and International History and an M.A. in European History from the University of Virginia. He graduated ...

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William English is currently a Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. He received his PhD inpolitical science from Duke University in 2010.

William Nolan (1)

Will Nolan is a graduate student in philosophy at the University of Oxford and a Barry Scholar at the Canterbury Institute. His main interests are in metaphysics, Aristotelianism, and medieval philosophy. Previously, he received an AB in philosophy from Princeton, where he wrote for The Princeton Tory, before teaching high school at a classical curriculum academy.

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William Arie van Wijngaarden is Professor of Physics at York University in Toronto, Canada. He has more than 80 refereed publications, he has given over 200 presentations, and his recent research has investigated climate change. He and his wife Theresa are the proud parents of five children.

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William W. Beach directed The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Data Analysis from 1995 until January 28, when he joined the Republican staff of the Senate Budget Committee as chief economist and senior adviser.

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Willis Renuart is a former attorney and restaurant owner living in Akron Ohio. He is a frequent contributor to the Front Porch Republic.

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Fr. Wilson D. Miscamble, C.S.C., is a Priest in the Congregation of Holy Cross and professor of history at the University of Notre Dame.

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Yasser Khalil is a journalist based in Cairo, Egypt. He is also an alumnus of The Witherspoon Institute’s 2009 and 2011 Islam and Civil Society Seminars.

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Zachary B. Pohlman is a lawyer in the Midwest. He received his J.D. from the University of Notre Dame Law School, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Notre Dame Law Review.

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

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Zena Hitz is a Tutor at St. John's College in Annapolis and the author of Lost In Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life (Princeton University Press, 2020).

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Alan Dowd is a senior fellow of the Sagamore Institute, where he leads the Center for America’s Purpose, and serves as a contributing editor of Providence: A Journal of Christianity and American Foreign Policy. Dowd is co-author of The New Security Blueprint (Sagamore Press, 2024) and Cybersecurity Challenges for Canada and the United States (Fraser Institute, 2015).