Authors

Matthew Franck (115)

Matthew J. Franck is 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 Church ...

Carson Holloway (103)

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 (91)

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.

Samuel Gregg (89)

Samuel Gregg is Distinguished Fellow in Political Economy and Senior Research Faculty at the American Institute for Economic Research. He has written and spoken extensively on questions of political economy, economic history, monetary theory and policy, and natural law theory. He is the author of sixteen books, including, most recently, The Next American Economy: Nation, State and Markets in an Uncertain World (2022).

R.J. Snell (67)

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 

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 (61)

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 ...

Jennifer Bryson (38)

Jennifer S. Bryson, Ph.D. studies religion, freedom, security, and sports. She was educated at Stanford and Yale. You can read her articles at jenniferbryson.net. Jennifer is the founder of LetAllPlay.org. She's on Twitter @brysonjs.

Michael Stokes Paulsen (38)

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.

Mark Regnerus (35)

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 ...

S. Adam Seagrave (30)

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.

Nathanael Blake (29)

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

Nathaniel Peters (28)

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

Gerard Bradley (32)

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 (27)

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.

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 (24)

Melissa Moschella is Associate Professor of Philosophy at The Catholic University of America and author of To Whom Do Children Belong? Parental Rights, Civic Education and Children's Autonomy (Cambridge University Press). She is also a McDonald Distinguished Fellow in the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University School of Law.

Helen Alvaré (21)

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

Sherif Girgis (25)

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

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.

Randall Smith (20)

Randall Smith is Full Professor of Theology at the University of St. Thomas, Houston. His book From Here to Eternity: Reflections on Death, Immortality, and the Resurrection of the Body is due out from Emmaus Press this spring. He is also the author of Reading the Sermons of Thomas Aquinas: A Beginner's Guide (Emmaus) and Aquinas, Bonaventure, and the Scholastic Culture of Medieval Paris (Cambridge).

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.

Charles Chaput (19)

Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., Is the archbishop emeritus of Philadelphia. This essay is excerpted and adapted from his forthcoming book, Things Worth Dying For: Thoughts on a Life Worth Living.

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.

Daniel Ross Goodman (18)

Daniel Ross Goodman is a writer, rabbi, and scholar from western Massachusetts. He holds a Ph.D. from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and studied English & Comparative Literature at Columbia University. A former contributor to the Books & Arts section of The Weekly Standard and current contributor to the Washington Examiner, he is the author of Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Wonder and Religion in American Cinema and the novel A Single Life

Serena Sigillito (22)

Serena Sigillito is Editor of Public Discourse. She recently completed a Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship at The Fund for American Studies, focusing on contemporary American women’s experiences of work and motherhood. You can follow her work here. Serena earned her BA in English at the University of Dallas as a National Merit Scholar, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude with a minor in Music. She ...

Andrew T. Walker (25)

Andrew T. Walker is Associate Professor of Christian Ethics and Apologetics at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is also the Executive Director and Fellow of the Carl F. H. Henry Institute for Evangelical Engagement. He serves as the Executive Editor of Eikon: A Journal for Biblical Anthropology, the journal of The Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. Dr. Walker researches, writes, and speaks about the intersection of Christian ethics and public theology with particular focus in ...

Hadley Arkes (18)

Hadley Arkes is the Ney Professor of Jurisprudence Emeritus at Amherst College and the Founder and Director of the James Wilson Institute on Natural Rights and the American Founding in Washington, D.C.

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.

Nathan Schlueter (17)

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.”

Jordan J. Ballor (15)

Dr. Jordan J. Ballor is director of research at the Center for Religion, Culture & Democracy, an initiative of the First Liberty Institute. He is also executive editor of the Journal of Religion, Culture & Democracy, and an associate director at the Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity & Politics at Calvin University and the Junius Institute for Digital Reformation Research at Calvin Theological Seminary.

Doug Mainwaring (15)

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

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.

Casey Chalk (14)

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.

Edward Feser (14)

Edward Feser is professor of philosophy at Pasadena City College, and the author of Aristotle’s Revenge: The Metaphysical Foundations of Physical and Biological Science.  

Rachel Lu (14)

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.

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.

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.

Micah Watson (15)

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

Robert Oscar Lopez (13)

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

Robert Carle (13)

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.

Ashleen Menchaca-Bagnulo (13)

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

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.

Richard M. Doerflinger (13)

Richard M. Doerflinger retired in 2016 from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities, where for 36 years he prepared testimony and other materials on abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, stem cell research, and other issues. He has published in many journals and magazines, and writes a monthly syndicated column for the national Catholic News Service. He is a Fellow at the University of Notre Dame’s de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, an Associate Scholar at the Charlotte Lozier Institute, and an Adjunct Fellow in Bioethics and Public Policy at the National Catholic Bioethics Center. He holds ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Patrick T. Brown (12)

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.

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

Michael A. Fragoso (11)

Michael A. Fragoso writes from northern Virginia.

Jane Robbins (11)

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

Greg Forster (11)

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

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.

Daniel Burns (13)

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.

Joshua Pauling (10)

Joshua Pauling taught American History and World History for over a decade and is now a classical education tutor for upper level high school students. He was educated at Messiah College, Winthrop University, and Reformed Theological Seminary and his writings have been published in Areo Magazine, FORMA Journal, Front Porch Republic, Mere Orthodoxy, Modern Reformation, Quillette, Salvo Magazine, and The Imaginative Conservative. He is also head elder of All Saints Lutheran Church (LCMS).

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.

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.

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).

Elayne Allen (16)

Elayne Allen is Managing Editor of Public Discourse. 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, and Hertog Foundation.

Gregory J. Sullivan (9)

Gregory J. Sullivan is a lawyer in New Jersey.

Carl R. Trueman (9)

Carl R. Trueman is Professor of Biblical and Religious Studies at Grove City College, Pa, and a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. He writes regularly at First Things and is the author of numerous books, most recently The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution.

Christian Brugger (9)

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

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.

Allen C. Guelzo (10)

Thomas W. Smith Distinguished Research Scholar and Director of the James Madison Program Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship.. He is the author of Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President (2000), Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America (2004), Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America (2008), Gettysburg: The Last Invasion (2013), and Reconstruction: A Concise History (2018).

Margarita Mooney Suarez (10)

Margarita Mooney Suarez 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 ...

Glenn Moots (8)

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.

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.

Matthew O'Brien (8)

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

Paul R. DeHart (8)

Paul R. DeHart is associate professor of political science at Texas State University. He is author of Uncovering the Constitution’s Moral Design (University of Missouri Press) and editor (with Carson Holloway) of Reason, Revelation, and the Civic Order: Political Philosophy and the Claims of Faith (Northern Illinois University Press).

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.

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde (8)

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde is currently Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, where he serves as Director of Graduate Studies in the Economics Department, Visiting Professor at University of Oxford, Visiting Fellow at Nuffield College (Oxford), Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Banks of Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia and the Bank of Spain, Advisor to the Hoover Institution at Stanford University’s Regulation and Rule of Law Initiative, and a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Center for Economic Policy Research. In the past, he has hold academic appointments, among others, at Harvard ...

Erika Bachiochi (10)

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 new book, The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision is forthcoming from Notre Dame University Press in July, 2021.

Mark Bauerlein (8)

Mark Bauerlein is an editor at First Things Magazine, Professor Emeritus at Emory University, and Fellow at Catholic University of America.

Devorah Goldman (9)

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

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.

John Londregan (9)

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

Charles C. Camosy (8)

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. ...

Nathan Pinkoski (8)

Nathan Pinkoski is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at St Michael's College, University of Toronto. He received his MPhil and DPhil in Politics from the University of Oxford.

Mark W. Leach (8)

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

Daniel Philpott (8)

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 ...

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).

Urban Hannon (7)

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

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.

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.

Chen Guangcheng (7)

Chen Guangcheng is a Chinese civil rights lawyer and activist who has been a persistent voice for freedom, human dignity, and the rule of law in his native country. Working in rural communities in China, where he was known as the “barefoot lawyer,” Chen advocated for the rights of disabled people, and organized class-action litigation against the government’s violent enforcement of its one-child policy. Blind since his childhood, Chen is self-taught in the law. His human rights activism resulted in his imprisonment by the Chinese government for four years, beginning in 2006; after his release he remained under house arrest, ...

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).

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.

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

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.

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.

Alexander Riley (8)

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.

Stefan McDaniel (7)

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

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 

Howard L. Muncy (7)

Howard L. Muncy is the Director of Operations for the Academic Freedom Alliance (AFA). Howard has lectured for the Politics Department at Princeton University. Prior to these positions, Howard taught American history for nearly twenty 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 History and a Master's in Education from Eastern Kentucky University. Howard also earned a Master’s in History at the University of Louisville.

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.

Michael Bradley (7)

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

Joseph Bottum (6)

Joseph Bottum is a bestselling essayist in the Black Hills of ...

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 ...

Ben Peterson (6)

Ben Peterson is a doctoral student in the Texas A&M Department of Political Science. Follow him on Twitter at @ben_2_long.

Dominic Burbidge (6)

Dr. Dominic Burbidge administers the Programme for the Foundations of Law and Constitutional Government at the University of Oxford. In June 2017, the Programme held a two-day conference on the thought of Alasdair MacIntyre.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Kevin T. Jackson (6)

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

Susan Hanssen (6)

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

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.

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 ...

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).

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.

Gerald R. McDermott (5)

Gerald McDermott is retired from the Anglican Chair at Beeson Divinity School. He has written and edited books on Jonathan Edwards, theology of religions, and theology of Israel. His latest edited books are Race and Covenant (Acton) and Understanding the Jewish Roots of Christianity (Lexham).

Robert Lowry Clinton (5)

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.

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.  

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.

Aaron Rothstein (6)

Aaron Rothstein, M.D., is a graduate student in epidemiology and attending neurovascular physician, and the author of the The New Atlantis blog “Practicing Medicine.”

Gregory Brown (5)

Gregory Brown is a research associate at the Witherspoon Institute.

Hunter Baker (5)

Hunter Baker, J.D., Ph.D. is the dean of arts and sciences and professor of political science at Union University. Follow him on Twitter @hunterbaker. 

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.

Alexandra DeSanctis (7)

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.

John Doherty (5)

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

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 

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.

Ana Samuel (5)

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, ...

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.

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.

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.

William J. Haun (5)

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

David Andreas (5)

David Andreas was formerly assistant editor of Public Discourse.

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 ...

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.

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.

Margaret Harper McCarthy (6)

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.

Micah Mattix (5)

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

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.

Ed Whelan (5)

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

Josh Craddock (6)

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.

Stephen Bainbridge (4)

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

Howard Slugh (8)

Howard Slugh is the General Counsel of the Jewish Coalition for Religious Liberty, as well as an attorney practicing in Washington, DC.  

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.

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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).

Terence Sweeney (4)

Terence Sweeney holds the Barry Fellowship at the Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society at the University of Pennsylvania where he is theologian-in-residence at the Collegium Institute. He holds a PhD in philosophy from Villanova University, where he is also an adjunct professor. He has written for America Magazine, First Things, Plough Magazine, Church Life Journal among other publications.

Aaron Walayat (4)

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.

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 ...

Greg Pfundstein (6)

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

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 ...

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.

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.

John D. Wilsey (4)

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.

Jon Shields (4)

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

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.

Katy Faust (4)

Katy Faust is the founder and director of the children’s rights organization, Them Before Us. She is the Washington State leader for CanaVox and currently appears in a video series called Dear Katy.

Jessica Hooten Wilson (4)

Jessica Hooten Wilson is the Seaver College Scholar of Liberal Arts at Pepperdine University and a Senior Fellow at the Trinity Forum. She is the author of several books, most recently The Scandal of Holiness: Renewing Your Imagination in the Company of Literary Saints (Brazos Press 2022).

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

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Cole Aronson (4)

Cole S. Aronson lives in Israel and is writing a defense of Orthodox Judaism. He is a Krauthammer fellow with the Tikvah fund.

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.

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 ...

Ligia De Jesus Castaldi (4)

Ligia De Jesús Castaldi is Professor of Law at Ave Maria School of Law

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.

Harold James (5)

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Collin Slowey (4)

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.

Valerie Huber (4)

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

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.

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 ...

Mathew Lu (4)

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

Harold Cassidy (4)

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

Francis J. Beckwith (4)

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

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

Rebekah Curtis (4)

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

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.

Elizabeth Corey (5)

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, 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 Things

Kody Wayne Cooper (5)

Kody W. Cooper is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Service at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and author of Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law (University of Notre Dame Press, 2018).

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.

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.

Tim Bradley (4)

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

Louis Brown (3)

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.

Christian Sahner (3)

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.

James Phillips (3)

James C. Phillips is a PhD candidate in Jurisprudence and Social Policy at UC-Berkeley, from which he also has a JD. He ...

Korey D. Maas (3)

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

Nathan Smith (3)

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.

Catherine Ruth Pakaluk (3)

Catherine Ruth Pakaluk (Ph.D, 2010) is Assistant Professor of Social Research and Economic Thought at The Catholic University of America. Her primary areas of research include economics of education and religion, family studies and demography, Catholic social thought, and political economy. Dr. Pakaluk is the 2015 recipient of the Acton Institute’s Novak Award, a prize given for “significant contributions to the study of the relationship between religion and economic liberty.” Pakaluk did her doctoral work at Harvard University under Caroline Hoxby, David Cutler, and 2016 Nobel-laureate Oliver Hart. Beyond ...

Haley Stewart (3)

Haley Stewart is a beekeeper’s wife, mother of four, speaker, and author of The Grace of Enough: Pursuing Less and Living More in a Throwaway Culture. She blogs at Carrots for Michaelmas and co-hosts the Fountains of Carrots Podcast.

Joel Alicea (3)

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

Brian Bird (3)

Brian Bird is an Assistant Professor 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 ...

Elizabeth Kirk (3)

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.

Caitlin La Ruffa (4)

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.

David L. Tubbs (3)

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

Sen. Josh Hawley (3)

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

Ryan Shinkel (3)

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

Daniel Moloney (3)

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.

Frank Schubert (3)

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.

Paul Benjamin Linton (3)

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.

Yuval Levin (4)

Yuval Levin is director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute and editor of National Affairs. His latest book, A Time to Build, will be published in January.    

Bradley Miller (3)

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.

Jay W. Richards (3)

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.

Lee Trepanier (3)

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.

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 ...

Teresa Collett (3)

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

Alexandra Davis (3)

Alexandra Davis writes on issues at the intersection of faith, culture, and family life. Her writing has been featured in online and print media including Verily Magazine and FemCatholic, and she is a former Co-Editor of the Carolina Review. She is an attorney and the founder of Davis Legal Media, a ghostwriting service for lawyers and law firms. Alexandra lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with her husband and two sons.

Trey Dimsdale (3)

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.

Jameson W. Doig (3)

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).

Nathaniel Bruno (3)

Nathaniel Bruno is senior counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom.

Brandon James Smith (3)

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

Justin Barnard (3)

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

Matthew Kuchem (3)

Matthew Kuchem is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Paul Rowan Brian (3)

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.

Rich Danker (3)

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

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.

Gabrielle Girgis (3)

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.

Jamie Boulding (6)

Jamie Boulding is Associate Director of Programs and Development at the Witherspoon Institute, Contributing Editor for Special Projects at Public Discourse, and author of The Multiverse and Participatory Metaphysics: A Theological Exploration (Routledge, 2021).

Kai Weiss (3)

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.

Paul Coleman (4)

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.  

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.

Daniel K. Williams (3)

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

Dwight Lindley (3)

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 eight children.

Kelly Hanlon (4)

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 ...

Matthew D. Wright (3)

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).

Grace Emily Stark (5)

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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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, ...

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Joshua Hren is founder of Wiseblood Books, co-founder of the Honors College at Belmont Abbey, and co-founder of the new MFA in Creative Writing at the University of St. Thomas. He has published essays and poems in such journals as First Things, America, and LOGOS. His books include the short story collections This Our Exile (2018) and In the Wine Press (2020), a forthcoming novel Infinite Regress (2022), as well as Middle-earth and the Return of the Common Good: Tolkien and Political Philosophy (2018) and How to Read (and ...

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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 ...

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

Andrew Haines (2)

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.

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.

James C. Capretta (2)

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

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.

Kelly Scott Franklin (2)

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

Morgan Bennett (2)

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

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.

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 ...

Alfred Kentigern Siewers (2)

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.

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.

Mark S. Latkovic (2)

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

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.

Nathan Gill (2)

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

Antonio Sosa (2)

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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.

William Gonch (2)

William Gonch is the Managing Director of Scala Foundation and a Visiting Scholar at Princeton Theological Seminary. A writer and scholar of literature, he earned his Ph.D. in English from the University of Maryland, College Park, and his M.A. in Creative Writing from Temple University. His dissertation, "Translating Grace: Postsecularity in Twentieth Century American Fiction," explores the twentieth-century rise of fiction that sits between religious and secular discourses and aims to translate between them. He has presented his research at the American Literature Association, the Northeast Modern Language Association, the Conference on Christianity and Literature, and several other ...

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.

Derek Ross (2)

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

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.

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.

Sukhayl Niyazov (2)

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.

Witherspoon Institute (2)

Bryan McGraw (3)

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

Donna Harrison, M.D. (2)

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

Jill Burcham (2)

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

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.

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.

Sen. Marco Rubio (2)

Sen. Marco Rubio has served as a Republican representing Florida in the U.S. Senate since 2010. He was a member of the Florida House of Representatives from 2000 to 2008, serving as majority leader from 2003 to 2006, and as speaker from 2006 to 2008.

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.

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.

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.

Alan J. Hawkins (4)

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 ...

Ashley McGuire (2)

Ashley McGuire is a Robert Novak Journalism Fellow, a Senior Fellow with The Catholic Association, and editor-in-chief of the online women’s magazine Altcatholicah.

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 ...

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.

Alicja A. Gescinska (2)

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 ...

Chad Felix Greene (2)

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 ...

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).

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.

Jennifer Gruenke (2)

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

Julia Shaw (2)

Julia Shaw is a writer in Washington, DC.

Kishore Jayabalan (2)

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

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.

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.

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.

Jonathan Den Hartog (2)

Jonathan Den Hartog is author of Patriotism and Piety: Federalist Politics and Religious Struggle in the New American Nation and co-editor of the forthcoming Disestablishment and Religious Dissent: Church-State Relations in the American States, 1776-1833. He is currently professor of history at the University of Northwestern-St. Paul, Minnesota, but in the fall he will join the history faculty of Samford ...

Kenneth W. Kemp (2)

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

Mark Dooley (2)

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,

Michael K. Laidlaw (3)

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

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).

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).

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.

Veronica Roberts Ogle (2)

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).

Daniel E. Ritchie (2)

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

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.

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.

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.

Brendan Foht (2)

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).

John C. Eastman (2)

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

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.

John Grove (2)

John G. Grove is associate editor of Law & Liberty.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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).

Chuck Donovan (1)

Chuck Donovan is President of the Charlotte Lozier Institute.

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 ...

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.

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.

Jeff Shafer (1)

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

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).

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.

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 ...

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.

Olivia Glunz (1)

Olivia Glunz is an A.B. candidate in History at Harvard College.

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.

Reggie Littlejohn (1)

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

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).

Santiago Ramos (1)

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

The Neuhaus Colloquium (1)

Helen Alvaré George Mason University School of Law Ryan T. Anderson Public Discourse Joseph Bottum First Things Gerard V. Bradley University of Notre Dame Law School Eric Cohen The New Atlantis Maureen L. Condic University of Utah School of Medicine Farr A. Curlin University of Chicago Jean Bethke Elshtain University of Chicago Matthew J. Franck Witherspoon Institute Robert P. George Princeton University Mary Ann Glendon Harvard Law School William B. Hurlbut, MD Neuroscience Institute at Stanford Donald W. Landry Columbia University Patrick Lee Franciscan University of Steubenville Yuval Levin National Affairs Michael ...

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.

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.

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.

Anne Mulrooney (1)

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

Brittany Basile (1)

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

Charles L. Glenn (1)

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

Douglas Kmiec (1)

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

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.

Frank Cannon (1)

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

Jeremy Adams (1)

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.

John Goerke (1)

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Philip Tartaglia (1)

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

Richard N. Williams (1)

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

Ronald Rychlak (1)

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 ...

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 ...

Thomas Howes (2)

Thomas Howes is a 2022-2023 Postdoctoral Fellow at the James Madison Program and a Lecturer in Politics at Princeton University. He is also affiliated with the Austrian Institute in Vienna, Austria as a Research Fellow. He received his PhD in Philosophy at Catholic University of America and is a member of the James Madison Society at Princeton University. He is currently working on a book manuscript on political ethics that is informed by contemporary natural law theory.

Yahya Cholil Staquf (1)

Yahya Cholil Staquf is a distinguished Muslim scholar, General Secretary of Indonesia’s Nahdlatul Ulama (NU)—the world’s largest Muslim organization, with over 90 million followers and 14,000 madrasahs—and co-founder of a global movement (“Humanitarian Islam”) that seeks to restore rahmah (universal love and compassion) to its rightful place as the primary message of Islam.

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Jason Richwine (1)

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

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.

Margaux Killackey (1)

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

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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. ...

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 ...

Edward J. Hamilton (1)

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

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.

James B. LaGrand (1)

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

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.

Jonathan Newman (1)

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

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.

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.

Myles McKnight (1)

Myles McKnight is a senior studying political philosophy at Princeton. He currently serves as the President of the Princeton Open Campus Coalition.

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.

Rev. Eugene F. Rivers (1)

Rev. Eugene F. Rivers is Director of the Seymour Institute for Black Church and Policy Studies.

Theodore Camp (1)

Theodore Camp is a pseudonym for a writer and non-profit employee based in New York City.

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.

Allen Porter (1)

Allen Porter is a 2021-2022 John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the James Madison Program at Princeton University. The two main focuses of his current research are bioethics and political philosophy. His dissertation, “Social Justice Leftism as Deconstructive Postmodernism,” offers a unified explanation of a number of novel phenomena associated with what is now commonly called “the woke left”—including the use of various techniques of “silencing” (such as “deplatforming”), calls by students for racially segregated campus spaces, the new rhetoric of “equity,” “microaggression” complaints and demands for “safe spaces,” and more. His thesis is that the existence ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Frank DeVito (1)

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.

Howe Whitman (1)

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

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.

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.

John Jalsevac (1)

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

Kristin Collier (1)

Kristin Collier, MD, FACP is an assistant 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, the Annals of Internal Medicine, The

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Seana Sugrue (1)

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.

Yasser Khalil (1)

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.

Adelaide Mena (2)

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

Andrew Bramsen (1)

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

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).

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.

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, ...

Matthew Berry (1)

Matthew Berry is currently an Affiliate Assistant Professor of Politics at the University of Dallas.

Michael D. Stark (1)

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

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.

Nigel Biggar (1)

Nigel Biggar is Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology, and ...

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 ...

Rafi Eis (1)

Rabbi Rafi Eis is the executive director of the Herzl Institute.

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 ...

St. Teresa of Calcutta (1)

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."

Teresa Bejan (1)

Teresa M. Bejan is Professor of Political Theory and a Fellow of Oriel College at the University of Oxford.

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 ...

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.

Andrew R. DeLoach (1)

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

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.

Brian Brown (1)

Brian Brown is the principal of Narrator, a communications consultancy that uses neuroscience and social network theory to build powerful support communities around products and causes. He is an alumnus of Princeton University and ...

Clara Piano (1)

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

Jeffrey A. Hart (1)

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

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.

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.).

Peter Myers (1)

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

William van Wijngaarden (1)

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.

Allison Postell (1)

Anonymous Anonymous (1)

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

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.

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 ...

Charles T. Rubin (1)

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.

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.

Gregor Puppinck (1)

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

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.

James Tillman (1)

James Tillman blogs at Seeking Omniscience.

Jesse Russell (1)

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

John Keown (1)

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. ...

Kyle Duncan (1)

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

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.

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.

Megan M. Arago (1)

Megan M. Arago is a doctoral candidate in Politics at the University of Dallas.

Phillip Wozniak (1)

Phillip Wozniak is currently a fourth-year medical student, a 2017 Fulbright Scholar, and a proud alumnus of the University of Dallas.

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.

Rose Brugger (1)

Rose Brugger is a senior studying philosophy and political theory at Baylor University.

Seow Hon Tan (1)

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.

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.

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.

Christopher Scalia (1)

Mr. Scalia's reviews and commentary have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Times Literary Supplement, the Washington Post, and elsewhere. He is a co-editor of two collections of his father’s writings, Scalia Speaks: Reflections on Law, Faith, and Life Well Lived and On Faith: Lessons from an American Believer.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 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

Mariana and Alfredo (1)

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

Michael F. Bird (1)

Rev. Dr. Michael Bird is an Academic Dean and Lecturer in Theology at Ridley College in Melbourne, Australia.

Rob Schwarzwalder (1)

Rob Schwarzwalder is Senior Vice President of the Family Research Council.

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.

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.

Clare Morell (1)

Clare Morell is a policy analyst at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where she works on the Big Tech Project. She worked in the White House Counsel’s Office and the Justice Department during the Trump administration.

Felix Miller (1)

Felix James Miller is a graduate student in philosophy at the Catholic University of America. His primary interests lie in aesthetics, liberal education, and the history of philosophy. He is an Assistant Editor for The European Conservative and has previously written for Jacobite, Aleteia, and Humane Pursuits. During the 2020-21 academic year, he is serving as Teaching and Research Associate at the Witherspoon Institute.

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 ...

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,

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.

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.

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."

Michael Krom (1)

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.

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.

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.

Sarah Torre (1)

Sarah Torre is a Policy Analyst at the Heritage Foundation.

William W. Beach (1)

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.

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.

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.

Chaya Sara Oppenheim (1)

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

D.B. Holiday (1)

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

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.

Elizabeth Schlueter (2)

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

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.

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.

Joseph Griffith (1)

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

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Paul C. Vitz (1)

Emeritus Professor of Psychology at New York University; Senior Scholar, Institute for the Psychological Sciences.

Richard Spinello (1)

Dr. Richard A. Spinello is Professor of Management Practice in the Carroll School of Management at Boston College where he teaches courses on strategic management, globalization, and ethics. He is the author of fourteen books, including Cyberethics: Morality and Law in Cyberspace and Business Ethics: Contemporary Issues and Cases.

Ross Douthat (1)

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.

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.

W. Justin Dyer (1)

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.

Yoram Hazony (1)

Yoram Hazony is President of the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem. He is author of The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture, published by Cambridge University Press.

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.

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 ...

Dwight G. Duncan (1)

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

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Eric Claeys is Professor of Law at George Mason University.

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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 ...

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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.

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

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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 ...

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

Lee Ward (1)

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

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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.

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Nikos Salingaros is an architectural theorist, a long-time associate of Christopher Alexander, and a mathematical physicist by original profession.

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.

Robert Bellafiore (1)

Robert Bellafiore, Jr. is a former Policy Advisor for the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee. His writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The American Conservative, Modern Age, and Law & Liberty.

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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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).

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Darren Geist is a practicing attorney, and a happily married father of three children.

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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.

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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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

Shilo Brooks (1)

Shilo Brooks is Teaching Associate Professor, Associate Faculty Director of the Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization, and Faculty Director of the Engineering Leadership Program at the University of Colorado. In summer 2022, he will join the James Madison Program at Princeton University as Assistant Director and Lecturer in the Department of Politics. He is author of Nietzsche's Culture War (2018).

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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.

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

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.

Damian Bell (1)

Damian Bell is a writer living in the Midwest.

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. ...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Roger Scruton (1)

Roger Scruton is Research Professor at the Institute for the Psychological Sciences, Arlington, VA.

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.

Zachary Pohlman (1)

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.

Andrew Busch (1)

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 ...

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.

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.

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.”

Gerhard Müller (1)

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

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.

Jack Gerard (1)

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

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 ...

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

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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 ...

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.

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, ...

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Mr. Ponnuru is the editor of National Review.

Saba Ahmed (1)

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 ...

Alexis Carré (1)

Alexis Carré is the 2022-23 Thomas W. Smith Postdoctoral Research Associate of the James Madison Program at Princeton University. His work deals with war and liberal democracy. He was awarded the 2021 Raymond Aron prize for research for his dissertation entitled "War and Law: The Refounding of Liberalism Against the Conservative Revolution in Leo Strauss and Raymond Aron."

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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.

Darren Patrick Guerra (1)

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

Derek Bekebrede (1)

Derek Bekebrede majored in economics at Harvard University.

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.

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.

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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). ...

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.

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.

Jordan Lorence (1)

Jordan Lorence is Senior Counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom.

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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.

Kim Colby (1)

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

Luis Parrales (1)

Luis Parrales is a research associate in Washington, DC. A graduate of the University of Richmond, he is currently an MA in Liberal Arts candidate in the Graduate Institute at St. John's College in Annapolis. In 2020, he was a public policy fellow at The Fund for American Studies, and hosted the podcast Panorama: on politics, Latinos, and conservatism. His writing has appeared in The Washington Examiner and American Purpose.

Matthew Rose (1)

Matthew Rose is Director and Senior Fellow of the Berkeley Institute.

Michael Platt (1)

Michael Platt has taught Shakespeare and Nietzsche at Dartmouth, Heidelberg, and the University of Dallas. Contact him at drmichaelplatt1942@gmail.com.

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.

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

Richard B. Corradi (1)

Richard B. Corradi, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio.

Steven Wedgeworth (1)

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.

Tsh Oxenreider (1)

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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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.

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.

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

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.

Ian Marcus Corbin (1)

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

Lara Ryd (1)

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

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).

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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.

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.

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

Carl H. Esbeck (1)

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

David Talcott (1)

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

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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.

Jacob Reses (1)

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

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 ...

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.

Leslie Grimard (1)

Leslie Grimard is a writer in Washington, DC.

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).

Matthew Hoberg (1)

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

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

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.

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.

Salim Furth (1)

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.

Thaddeus J. Kozinski (1)

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.

Timothy Burns (1)

Timothy W. Burns is a professor of political science and graduate program director at Baylor University. His research interests include the history of political thought from Homer to Strauss, politics and literature, and liberal education. 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 Introduction to Political Philosophy, editor of Brill’s Companion to Leo Strauss’ Writings on Classical Political Thought, co-editor (with Peter Lawler) of The Future of Liberal Education

William English (1)

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.

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.

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.

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David A. Eisenberg (1)

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

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 ...

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.

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. ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

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.

Michael Robert Hepner (1)

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

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 ...

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.

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.

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).

Tyler VanderWeele (1)

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, Religion and Spirituality at Harvard University. He holds degrees from the University of Oxford, University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard University in mathematics, philosophy, theology, finance and applied economics, and biostatistics. His methodological research concerns causal inference and measurement; and his empirical research spans psychiatric, perinatal, and social epidemiology; the science of happiness ...

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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.

Bryan R. Cross (1)

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

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

Donald W. Landry (1)

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

Ian Speir (1)

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

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.

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).

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.

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.

Marc O. DeGirolami (1)

Marc O. DeGirolami is a professor of law at St. John's University School of Law and the associate director of the Center for Law and Religion. He writes about the First Amendment and constitutional law and theory.

Miriam Grossman (2)

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, 

Pro-Life Catholic Scholars (1)

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

Wayne Miller (1)

Wayne Miller is a retired librarian and library director. His thirty-five year career spanned medical, school, public, and university libraries. ...

Andrew J. Zwerneman (1)

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

Christopher Spewock (1)

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

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

Kelsey L. (1)

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

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.

Marianna Orlandi (1)

Marianna Orlandi is an Italian lawyer and a 2019-2020 James Madison Program Associate Research Scholar. Her main area of interest is the ethical dimension of law and criminal law, with particular reference to the right to life. Graduating in law, magna cum laude, from the University of Padua, Italy, she continued her studies in law receiving her Ph.D. from both the University of Padua and the University of Innsbruck. After working for a pro-life NGO in the United States, she practiced as a criminal lawyer in Milan.

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.

Pavlos Papadopoulos (1)

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

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 ...

Sally White (1)

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.

Stephanie Slade (1)

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.

Titus Techera (1)

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.

Alicia Grimaldi (1)

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

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.

Brian Mogck (1)

Brian Mogck is an attorney in New Jersey.

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).

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.

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).

Mark Shiffman (1)

Mark Shiffman is Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities at Villanova University, with expertise in Philosophy, Political Theory and Classical Studies. Courses he teaches include "Classical Statesmanship," "Race and Democratic Dignity," and "Dostoyevsky's Brothers Karamazov." He earned his B.A. from St. John's College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is the translator of Aristotle's De Anima (Hackett, 2010) and author of numerous articles and book chapters on Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch, Augustine, Ockham, Hobbes, Locke, Simone Weil, Ralph Ellison, Wendell Berry and Rémi Brague. He lives ...

Michael Scaperlanda (1)

Michael Scaperlanda holds the Gene and Elaine Edwards Family Chair in Law at the University of Oklahoma College of Law.

Patrick Garry (2)

Patrick Garry is the author of Redefining Conservatism: A Creed for the Poor and Disadvantaged (Encounter Books) and The False Promise of Big Government: How Washington Helps the Rich and Hurts the Poor (ISI Books).

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.

Roberta Bayer (1)

Dr. Roberta Bayer is a Garwood Visiting Fellow at the James Madison Program and Associate Professor at Patrick Henry College.

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 ...

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 "

V. Bradley Lewis (2)

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.

Abigail Wilkinson Miller (1)

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.

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.

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.

Gary Morson (1)

Gary Saul Morson, the Lawrence B. Dumas Professor of the Arts and Humanities at Northwestern University, is the author or editor of 21 books on Russian literature, the philosophy of time, the role of quotations in culture and various literary genres (the novel, utopia, the aphorism). His most recent book, co-authored with Morton Schapiro, is Minds Wide Shut: How the New Fundamentalisms Divide Us (Princeton University Press). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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.

Ignatius Joseph III Younan (1)

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

John P. O'Callaghan (1)

John O’Callaghan is associate professor of Philosophy and Director of the Jacques Maritain Center at the University of Notre Dame. He has written or edited a number of books and articles in the area of Thomistic studies, including Thomist Realism and the Linguistic Turn (2003), and Recovering Nature (with Thomas Hibbs, 1999). He is a past president of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, and is a permanent member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas.

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.

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 ...

Shimon Cowen (2)

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.

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

Zena Hitz (1)

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).

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.

Carlo Lancellotti (1)

Carlo Lancellotti is a Professor of Mathematics at the College of Staten Island, and a Faculty in Physics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is originally from Milan, Italy, and has recently translated into English two volumes of essays by 20th century Italian philosopher Augusto Del Noce.

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).

E. Gregory Wallace (1)

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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

Michael I. Krauss (1)

Michael I. Krauss is Professor of Law at Scalia Law School, George Mason University.

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);

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.

Stephen Austin (1)

Stephen W. Austin is a retired Army officer, father, and grandfather living outside Philadelphia.

Angela McKay Knobel (1)

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

Benjamin L. Smith (1)

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

Brian Murray (1)

Brian Murray is a lawyer in Pennsylvania.

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.

James Orr (1)

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

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.

Jose A. Bufill (1)

Jose Bufill is a medical oncologist with 30 years experience caring for cancer patients and educating medical professionals at the graduate and post-graduate 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, Public Discourse, and others. Recently, he taught seminars in bioethics at Strathmore University in Nairobi. Joe is founder and President of the Bur Oak Foundation, an educational initiative supporting the University of ...

Roger Severino (2)

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

Chris Smith (1)

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

David Gordon (1)

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

Emily Carrington (1)

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

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.

Ilan Wurman (1)

Ilan Wurman is a student at Stanford Law School.

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.

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.

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.

Margaret A. Hagen (1)

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

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.

Paul Krause (1)

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.

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.

Siobhan Heekin-Canedy (1)

Siobhan Heekin-Canedy 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, earning four Ukrainian national titles and ultimately competing in the 2014 Winter Olympics. She served as the North America Regional Director of World Youth Alliance from 2020-2022 and previously interned at the US Department of State and the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations. Siobhan and her husband Michael are the proud parents of ...

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.

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.

Weronika Janczuk (1)

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.

Jeff Shafer (1)

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

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/...

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, 

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).

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.

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.

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.

Joshua Schulz (1)

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

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.

Matthew Lee Anderson (1)

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.

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);

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. ...

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

Constance T. Hull (1)

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

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. ...

James P. McGlone (1)

James P. McGlone studied at Harvard College.

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.

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.

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).

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.

Roger Trigg (1)

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.

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.

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).

Xavier Symons (1)

Xavier Symons is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Plunkett Centre for Ethics, The Australian Catholic University, and a Fulbright Future Postdoctoral Scholar at the Kennedy Institute for Ethics, Georgetown University.

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, ...

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.

Douglas Johnson (1)

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

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.

Gene Schaerr (1)

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Matt Bowman (1)

Matt Bowman is senior legal counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom.

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.

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 ...

Ryan Everson (1)

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.

Tiffany Barron (1)

Tiffany Barron is a graduate student in the Princeton University Department of Politics, studying international relations and comparative politics.

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.

Andrew Lewis (1)

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

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.

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.

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.

Evelyn Behling (1)

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

Michael Lucchese (2)

Michael Lucchese is the founder of Pipe Creek Consulting, a communications firm based in Washington, D.C. Prior to that, he was a communications aide to U.S. Senator Ben Sasse. He graduated from Hillsdale College in 2018, and in 2017 was a Political Studies Fellow at the Hudson Institute. His writing has also appeared in the Washington Examiner and National Review.

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).

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 ...

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.

Aaron Alexander Zubia (1)

Aaron Alexander Zubia, a graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary, is a PhD candidate in political theory at Columbia University. He is currently working on his dissertation, which is on the neo-Epicurean roots of liberal political theory.

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 ...

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.

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.

Charles F. Capps (1)

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

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.

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.

Joseph Bessette (1)

Joseph Bessette is Alice Tweed Tuohy Professor of Government and Ethics at Claremont McKenna College, where he teaches 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.

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.

Patrick Tomassi (1)

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.

Victor Claar (1)

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 ...

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.

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.

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).

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. 

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.

David Hershenov (1)

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

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.

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.

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.

Lawrence M. Mead (1)

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

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 ...

Paul Moreno (1)

Paul Moreno is the William and Berniece Grewcock Chair in Constitutional Hisory at Hillsdale College.

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.

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 ...

Sonja Corbitt (1)

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.

Evelyn Birge Vitz (1)

Evelyn Birge Vitz is Professor of French and Affiliated Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University.

Jonathan Imbody (1)

Jonathan Imbody serves as Director of Federal Government Relations for the Christian Medical Association and also directs Freedom2Care, which focuses on freedom of faith, conscience and speech and serves 30,000 health professionals and others. A veteran writer of over 40 years, he authored Faith Steps. He has previously written for The Washington Post, USA Today, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Sun-Times and many other national publications. He has testified on euthanasia and assisted suicide before a U.S. Senate committee.

Benjamin Weingarten (1)

Benjamin Weingarten is a Senior Contributor at The Federalist, Columnist at Newsweek, Fellow of the Claremont Institute, author of American Ingrate (Bombardier, 2020), and 2019 Robert Novak Journalism Fellow at The Fund for American Studies.

Greg F. Burke (1)

Dr. Greg F. Burke graduated from the Jefferson Medical College and pursued internal medicine training at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. He joined the Geisinger Medical Center as an associate in 1992 and has maintained an active internal medicine practice there since then. He has served in several administrative roles, most recently as the Chief Patient Experience Officer of Geisinger Health. He has served on the hospital’s ethics committee since 1994. Dr. Burke has an ongoing interest in Catholic bioethics and serves as co-chairman of the Catholic Medical Association’...

Justin Hawkins (1)

Justin R. Hawkins is a PhD student at Yale University in the departments of Religion and Political Science. His dissertation in progress is titled "Crowned with Glory and Honor: The Virtue of Magnanimity, and its Discontents."

Andrew Beckwith (1)

Andrew Beckwith has served as president of the Massachusetts Family Institute, the local associate for Focus on the Family, since 2014. Andrew is a graduate of Gordon College and the University of Minnesota Law School and serves as an allied attorney with Alliance Defending Freedom, focusing on religious liberty cases.

Bradford P. Wilson (1)

Bradford P. Wilson is Executive Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions and Lecturer in Politics at Princeton University. He is a Faculty Fellow in Butler College at Princeton, and serves as President of the Association for the Study of Free Institutions.

James R. Harrigan (3)

James R. Harrigan is Managing Director of the Center for Philosophy of Freedom at the University of Arizona, and the F.A. Hayek Distinguished Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education. He is also co-host of the Words & Numbers podcast. Dr. Harrigan was previously Dean of the American University of Iraq-Sulaimani, and later served as Director of Academic Programs at the Institute for Humane Studies and Strata, where he was also Senior Research Fellow. He has written extensively for the popular press, with articles appearing in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, U.S. News and World Report, and ...

Alexander Salter (1)

Alexander William Salter is the Georgie G. Snyder Associate Professor of Economics in the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University, the Comparative Economics Research Fellow at TTU's Free Market Institute, and an associate editor of the Journal of Private Enterprise. He is also a Sound Money Project senior fellow and a Young Voices senior contributor. His first book, Money and the Rule of Law: Generality and Predictability in Monetary Institutions​, is published by Cambridge University Press (May 2021).

Steve Lemke (1)

Steve Lemke is Professor of Philosophy and Ethics at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.

Mary Eberstadt (2)

Mary Eberstadt is a senior research fellow at the Faith and Reason Institute and author of several books including Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics; Adam and Eve after the Pill; and How the West Really Lost God: A New Theory of Secularization.

Rosaria Butterfield (1)

Rosaria Butterfield, Ph.D., former tenured professor of English at Syracuse University, is the author of The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert (Crown and Covenant, 2012), Openness Unhindered: Further Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert on Sexual Identity and Union with Christ (Crown and Covenant, 2015), and The Gospel Comes with a House Key: Practicing Radically Ordinary Hospitality in our Post Christian World (Crossway, 2018). Rosaria is married to Kent Butterfield, pastor of First Reformed Presbyterian Church of Durham (Durham, NC), and together they homeschool two of their four children.

Daniel Heimbach (1)

Daniel Heimbach is Senior Professor of Christian Ethics at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Thomas W. Smith (1)

Dr. Thomas W. Smith is the Anne Quinn Welsh Endowed Chair and Director of the Honors Program at Villanova University. Dr. Smith was the founding chair of the Department of Humanities at Villanova. He received his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University and his Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame. Three time recipient of the Martin Manley Distinguished Teaching Award in Villanova’s Political Science Department he was also awarded Villanova’s Lindback Award for Teaching Excellence in 2001. He is the author of Revaluing Ethics: Aristotle’s Dialectical Pedagogy (SUNY Press 2001). His teaching and scholarship focuses on the history ...

Hamza Yusuf (1)

Shaykh Hamza Yusuf is President of Zaytuna College.

Jason S. Carroll (1)

Jason S. Carroll is a Professor in the School of Family Life at Brigham Young University and the Associate Director of the Wheatley Institution. He has published widely on sexuality, marriage, and family issues; and was honored for Distinguished Mid-Career Achievement by the International Association for Relationship Research.

Lucas Morel (1)

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.

Sarah Spangenberg (1)

Sarah is the Outreach Coordinator for the Minnesota Alliance for Ethical Healthcare, a diverse, statewide coalition formed to fight the legalization of assisted suicide in Minnesota. She is currently finishing a graduate degree in Theology from the Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity in St. Paul, Minnesota.

W. Cole Durham (1)

W. Cole Durham, Jr., is Director of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies at BYU Law School, President of the International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies (ICLARS), and a Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion.

Daniel J. Hay (1)

Daniel J. Hay is a litigator in Washington, DC.

Mona Charen (1)

Mona Charen is a Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington D.C. and a syndicated columnist and political analyst. A graduate of Bernard College, Columbia University and the George Washington University Law School, she began her career at National Review magazine. She joined the White House staff in 1984, first serving as Nancy Reagan's speechwriter and later as Associate Director of the Office of Public Liaison. Later she joined the Public Affairs ...

Lucien Ellington (1)

Lucien Ellington is a UC Foundation Professor of Education at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he is Director of the UTC Asia Program and the Center for Reflective Citizenship. Ellington's interests include economic history, liberal education, educational reform, and history and economic education. He is the author of four books on Japan, over 80 articles and essays on northeast Asia, history and social science education, economic history, and educational reform. Ellington is founding editor of the pedagogical journal, Education About Asia, the editor of two ...

Theresa Farnan (1)

Theresa Farnan is the author of Get Out Now: Why You Should Pull Your Child From Public School Before It's Too Late and an advisory council member of the Catholic Women's Forum.

Meghan Grizzle (1)

Meghan Grizzle is the Research and Policy Specialist at the World Youth Alliance.

Michelle Cretella, M.D. (1)

Michelle Cretella, M.D. is the Executive Director of the American College of Pediatricians.

John Rhee (1)

John is one of the chief neurology residents at Mass General Brigham at Harvard Medical School, with plans to sub-specialize in neuro-oncology. He has published on palliative care in Lancet Oncology, Journal of Palliative Medicine, and Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, and he is the author of the book APCA Atlas of Palliative Care Development in Africa. John graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. with Honors and Distinction in Policy Analysis and Management. He was accepted into the Humanities and Medicine Early Acceptance Program at the Icahn School of Medicine where he was a Dean's Scholar in ...

Timothy Reichert (1)

Timothy Reichert is an economist living in Denver.

Patrick Brennan (1)

Patrick Brennan holds the Scarpa Chair at Villanova University School of Law.

Beverly Nuckols (1)

Beverly Nuckols is a Christian wife, mother, and physician advocate for human rights and traditional medical ethics.

L. Lin (1)

L. Lin is a graduate of Harvard Law School who has defended freedom of thought, conscience, and religion for people who hold a variety of beliefs.

David Stevens, M.D. (1)

David Stevens, M.D., is the CEO of the Christian Medical & Dental Associations.

William E. Lori (1)

William E. Lori is the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore.  

Ben Sixsmith (1)

Ben Sixsmith is a writer living in Poland. His essays and reviews have been published by Quillette, The Spectator USA, The Catholic Herald, The American Conservative, Public Discourse, Front Porch Republic, Areo, Unherd, and Arc Digital.

Jeffrey Riley (1)

Jeffrey Riley is Professor of Ethics at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.

Bruno V. Manno (2)

Bruno V. Manno is senior advisor, emeritus, for the Walton Family Foundation and a former U.S Assistant Secretary of Education for Policy.

Garrett Bauman (1)

Garrett Bauman is a recent ARFP intern.

Jane Orient, M.D. (1)

Jane Orient, M.D., is the Executive Director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons.

T.J. Whittle (1)

T.J. Whittle is a research associate with the ARFP.

Germain Grisez (1)

Germain Grisez was a French-American philosopher. Grisez's development of ideas from Thomas Aquinas has redirected Roman Catholic thought and changed the way it has engaged with secular moral philosophy.

Patrick G. Spencer (1)

Richard Carwardine (2)

Richard Carwardine was formerly Rhodes Professor of American History and President of Corpus Christi College at Oxford University, where he is now a Distinguished Fellow of the Rothermere American Institute. Elected by the Lincoln Academy of Illinois to the Order of Lincoln, he is the author of Transatlantic Revivalism (1978), Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America (1993), and Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power (2005), which won the Lincoln Prize. He edited, with Jay Sexton, The Global Lincoln (2011). Lincoln’s Sense of Humor (2017) won the annual book prize of the Abraham Lincoln ...

Bill Lee (1)

Bill Lee is the 50th Governor of Tennessee and was elected in 2018.

Nicholas Christakis (1)

Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH, is a sociologist and physician who conducts research in the areas of social networks and biosocial science. He directs the Human Nature Lab. The author of several books and over 150 articles, Christakis was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 2006 and was made a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2010.

Alan Branch (1)

Alan Branch is Professor of Christian Ethics at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Ashley Fernandes (1)

Ashley K. Fernandes, MD, PhD, is the Associate Director of the Center for Bioethics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine, and a Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Dr. Fernandes received an MD from The Ohio State University and a PhD in Philosophy from Georgetown University, with a focus on bioethics. He currently directs ethics education for all pediatric residents at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. His scholarly interests include clinical pediatric ethics, the philosophy of medicine, and Medicine and the Holocaust studies. After more than a decade of practicing hospital pediatrics, he is now ...

Brandon Myers (1)

Brandon D. Myers is a graduate of Taylor University (2009) and of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He currently serves as Senior Pastor of Christ The King Reformed Baptist Church in Niles, IL (ctkrbc.org) and is a PhD student in Educational Studies at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.

Erin Tuttle (1)

Erin Tuttle is a research fellow with American Principles Project Foundation.

John Ballantyne (1)

John Ballantyne is a Melbourne-based historian and journalist.

Chad Pecknold (1)

Dr. Chad Pecknold is an Associate Professor of Theology and a Fellow of the Institute of Human Ecology at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.

Luke Paulsen (1)

Luke Paulsen is a 2014 graduate of Princeton University and a software engineer in Mountain View, California, and co-author of The Constitution: An Introduction (2015).

Emanuela Midolo (1)

Emanuela is a Research Fellow in Ethics and Bioethics at Research Ethics and Integrity Committee of the Italian National Center of Research and a Visiting Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University. She is also an Italian criminal law attorney specialized in human rights law. She is experienced in Clinical Ethics consultation and she also was an Adjunct Professor in Bioethics, Human Rights, History of Medicine and Professional Ethics at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome.

Janet Morana (1)

Janet Morana is the executive director of Priests for Life and co-founder of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign.

Russell Moore (1)

Russell Moore is the President of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention.

Wells King (1)

Wells King is the research director at American Compass.

John Eberly (1)

Brewer Eberly is a PGY-3 and chief resident in Family Medicine at AnMed Health Family Medicine Residency in Anderson, South Carolina. He is a former fellow of both the Theology, Medicine, & Culture Fellowship at Duke Divinity School and the Paul Ramsey Fellowship with the Center for Bioethics & Culture. He has been published widely, including Academic Medicine, JAMA, AMA Journal of Ethics, Christianity Today, The New Atlantis, and elsewhere. After graduation, Brewer plans to practice and teach at the intersections of family medicine, medical ethics, and aesthetics, with interests in medical trainee formation, beauty, and practical wisdom.

Kenneth A. Artz (1)

Ken Artz is an active duty Major in the United States Air Force and member of the United States Air Force JAG Corps, and served as a 2012-2013 Air Force Strategic Policy Fellow in Washington, DC.

Loren D. Marks (1)

Loren D. Marks is a professor in BYU's School of Family Life and serves as co-director of the American Families of Faith Research Project.

Elissa Sanchez-Speach (1)

Elissa Sanchez-Speach, MD, is a family physician in private practice in Rochester, New York.

Michael Singleton (1)

Michael Singleton is an investment research associate in the Washington DC metro area.

Richard Land (1)

Richard Land is President Emeritus of the Southern Evangelical Seminary and President Emeritus of The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission.

Andrea Mrozek (1)

Andrea Mrozek is Program Director of Cardus Family. She writes and speaks about marriage, child care, women's issues and how family life affects the economy, and vice versa. Born in Toronto, Andrea has a Master of Arts in History from the University of Toronto.

Daniel Lage (1)

Dr. Daniel E. Lage, MD, MSc is a medical oncology fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He is also a clinical fellow in medicine at Harvard Medical School. After graduating from Harvard College, he completed graduate study at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar before attending Harvard Medical School. His clinical focus is in genitourinary oncology, and his research focuses on developing novel health care delivery models to improve the palliative and supportive care provided to patients with advanced cancer. He is a co-founder of the Hippocratic Forum.

Nicholas Marr (1)

Nicholas Marr works at Washington, DC-based non-profit. A graduate of the University of Notre Dame and a former research assistant to constitutional law scholar Vincent Phillip Muñoz, Marr has researched and written about the First Amendment’s Religion Clauses, as well as the political theory of the American founding and contemporary public policy debates.

Brandon Wall (1)

Brandon Wall is a Marriage and Family Therapist in Iowa City.

Daniel McCarthy (1)

Daniel McCarthy is director of the Robert Novak Journalism Program at the Fund for American Studies and the editor of Modern Age.

Olive Umuhire Nsababera (1)

Olive Umuhire Nsababera has worked for UNICEF in its regional Middle East office, based in Amman, Jordan. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree at Columbia University.

Tracy Winsor (1)

Tracy Winsor is a founding partner in the work of BeNotAfraidMinistry, an outreach to parents grappling with prenatal diagnosis. She is a contributing writer for HLI America, an educational initiative of Human Life International. Her recent articles may be found at HLI America’s Truth and Charity Forum.

Elizabeth A. Clark (1)

Elizabeth A. Clark is Associate Director of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies at Brigham Young University.

Hope Kean (1)

Hope Kean graduated from Princeton University in 2018. She is a member of Princeton’s Aquinas community and a student member of the Thomistic Institute, part of the Dominican House of Studies in Washington DC.

C. Ben Mitchell (2)

C. Ben Mitchell is the recently retired Graves Chair of Moral Philosophy at Union University and is currently serving as Distinguished Fellow of the Tennessee Center for Bioethics & Culture.

John Safranek (1)

John Safranek, MD, is a medical doctor practicing in Nebraska. He also holds a PhD in philosophy from the Catholic University of America, and his writings have appeared in the Hastings Center Report, the Texas Review of Law and Politics, and the University of Colorado Law Review.

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Dianne Marie Johnson (1)

Dianne Marie Johnson received her nursing license in 1972 and recently retired after 44 years of bedside nursing. She worked as an oncology certified nurse in radiation oncology and has extensive experience in coronary care, intensive care and as a “pioneer” nurse in radiology nursing. In 1998 she received her B.A. with double majors in Philosophy and Catholic Studies. In 2006 she received her M. A. in Catholic Studies with emphasis in biomedical ethics from the University of St. Thomas in St Paul, MN. In 2001 she founded Curatio, in part to answer her own longing for integrity between her faith and her work, ...

Xixi Chen (1)

Xixi Chen is an instructor at Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine.

Hal Boyd (3)

Hal Boyd is an Associate Professor of Family Life at Brigham Young University and a fellow of the Wheatley Institution.

John Schirger, M.D. (1)

John Schirger, M.D., is President of the Catholic Medical Association.

Rachel Morrison (1)

Rachel N. Morrison is a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where she works on EPPC’s HHS Accountability Project. An attorney, her legal and policy work focuses on religious liberty, health care rights of conscience, the right to life, nondiscrimination, and civil rights.