Claire Berlinski, a contributing editor of City Journal, is an American journalist who lives in Istanbul. She is the author of There Is No Alternative: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters.

Theodore Dalrymple, a physician, is a contributing editor of City Journal and the Dietrich Weismann Fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

Brandon Fuller is the content director and strategist for Charter Cities, a research nonprofit focused on the interplay of rules, cities, and development.

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: Saving Capitalism from Wall Street—and Washington.

Edward L. Glaeser is a professor of economics at Harvard University, a City Journal contributing editor, and a Manhattan Institute senior fellow.

André Glucksmann is a French philosopher. His article, which draws on the recent book La Plus Belle Histoire de la Liberté, was translated by Alexis Cornel.

Victor Davis Hanson is a contributing editor of City Journal. He is the editor of Makers of Ancient Strategy: From the Persian Wars to the Fall of Rome and the author of The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern.

Christopher Hitchens is a columnist for Vanity Fair and the author, most recently, of Hitch-22: A Memoir.

Howard Husock, a contributing editor of City Journal, is the Manhattan Institute’s vice president for policy research and the director of its Social Entrepreneurship Initiative. He received the 1980 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism award for his public television series Community Disorder: Racial Violence in Boston.

Stefan Kanfer, a contributing editor of City Journal and a former editor of Time, is the author, most recently, of Somebody, a biography of Marlon Brando. His next book, a biography of Humphrey Bogart called Tough Without a Gun, will be out in February.

Andrew Klavan is a City Journal contributing editor and the author of such best-selling novels as Don’t Say a Word, True Crime, and Empire of Lies. His latest thriller is The Identity Man.

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 Shakedown: The Continuing Conspiracy Against the American Taxpayer.

Judith Miller is a contributing editor of City Journal, an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and a FOX News contributor.

Mario Polèse is a professor at the Centre Urbanisation Culture Société at Montreal’s Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique and holds the Senior Canada Research Chair in Urban and Regional Studies. He is the author of The Wealth and Poverty of Regions: Why Cities Matter.

Paul Romer is the Henry Kaufman Visiting Professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and the founder of Charter Cities.

Guy Sorman, a City Journal contributing editor, is the author of Economics Does Not Lie and many other books. He serves as an advisor to South Korean president Lee Myung Bak.

Harry Stein, a contributing editor of City Journal, is the author of I Can’t Believe I’m Sitting Next to a Republican.

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.

William Voegeli is a contributing editor of The Claremont Review of Books, a visiting scholar at Claremont McKenna College’s Salvatori Center, and the author of Never Enough: America’s Limitless Welfare State.

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Michael Knox Beran is a contributing editor of City Journal and the author of the forthcoming Pathology of the Elites: How the Arrogant Classes Plan to Run Your Life. Conor Friedersdorf is a California-based writer at work on a biography of the cofounder of Sea World. Kay S. Hymowitz is a contributing editor of City Journal and the William E. Simon Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Benjamin A. Plotinsky is the managing editor of City Journal. Fred Siegel is a contributing editor of City Journal, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and a scholar in residence at St. Francis College in Brooklyn.

Artists:

Jock is the pseudonym of award-winning British artist Mark Simpson, best known for his comics work on DC/Vertigo’s The Losers, the motion-picture adaptation of which opened worldwide in 2010. Alberto Mena is an artist and a graphic designer based in New York City. Paul Pope is an artist living and working in New York City. Arnold Roth is a cartoonist whose work has appeared in Punch, The New Yorker, the New York Times, and many other publications.

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