Michael Anton is an author and a speechwriter based in New York.

Josh Barro is the Walter B. Wriston Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a regular columnist for RealClearMarkets.

Theodore Dalrymple, a physician, is a contributing editor of City Journal and the Dietrich Weismann Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. His most recent book is Not with a Bang but a Whimper.

Nicole Gelinas, a City Journal contributing editor and the Searle Freedom Trust Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, is a Chartered Financial Analyst and the author of After the Fall.

André Glucksmann is a French philosopher. His story was translated by Alexis Cornel.

Victor Davis Hanson is a contributing editor of City Journal; a classicist and military historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University; and the editor of the forthcoming Makers of Modern Strategy: From the Persian Wars to the Fall of Rome.

Andrew Klavan is a City Journal contributing editor and the author of such best-selling novels as Don’t Say a Word and Empire of Lies. His new thriller for young adults, The Long Way Home, will be out in February.

Heather Mac Donald is a contributing editor of City Journal and the John M. Olin Fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

Myron Magnet is City Journal’s editor-at-large and was its editor from 1994 through 2006. He is the author of The Dream and the Nightmare: The Sixties’ Legacy to the Underclass and a recipient of the National Humanities Medal.

Steven Malanga is the senior editor of City Journal and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He is the author of The New New Left.

E. J. McMahon is the Manhattan Institute’s senior fellow for tax and budgetary studies and director of the Institute’s Albany-based Empire Center for New York State Policy.

Bradley A. Smith is a former chairman of the Federal Election Commission, the chairman of the Center for Competitive Politics, and a professor of law at Capital University Law School in Columbus, Ohio.

Guy Sorman, a City Journal contributing editor, is the author of numerous books, including Economics Does Not Lie.

Sol Stern is a contributing editor of City Journal, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and the author of Breaking Free: Public School Lessons and the Imperative of School Choice.

Laura Vanderkam, a New York City–based writer, is the author of the forthcoming 168 Hours: You Have More Time than You Think.

Marcus A. Winters, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, conducts research and writes about education policy.

Soundings:

Claire Berlinski, a contributing editor of City Journal, is the author of Menace in Europe: Why the Continent’s Crisis Is America’s, Too. Conrad Kiechel is a writer and park lover in New York. Paulette Miniter is a writer in New York. James Panero is the managing editor of The New Criterion. Larry Sand is the president of the California Teachers Empowerment Network. Troy Senik is a former presidential speechwriter and the coauthor of the forthcoming Bold Colors: How to Create the Next Republican Majority. Peter Sloterdijk is a German philosopher; his article was translated by Alexis Cornel. Berin Szoka is the director of the Center for Internet Freedom at the Progress and Freedom Foundation.

Artists:

Tracy Collins, a photographer living in Brooklyn, collects his work at www.3c.com. Alberto Mena is the graphics and imaging director of BusinessWeek. Arnold Roth is a cartoonist whose work has appeared in Punch, The New Yorker, the New York Times, and many other publications. Kim Cogan, based in San Francisco, has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in the United States, and his work is collected internationally. He is represented by Gallery Henoch in New York City. Courtesy of Gallery Henoch.

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