Michael Anton first saw the Queen Mary at age 11 and has been in love with ocean liners ever since.

Josh Barro is the Walter B. Wriston Fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

Wendell Cox is the principal of Demographia, a public policy consultancy.

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

Nicole Gelinas is a City Journal contributing editor and the Searle Freedom Trust Fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

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

Douglas Holtz-Eakin is president of the American Action Forum and a former director of the Congressional Budget Office.

Paul Howard is the director of the Manhattan Institute’s Center for Medical Progress.

Kay S. Hymowitz is a contributing editor of City Journal and the William E. Simon Fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

Stefan Kanfer, a City Journal contributing editor, is the author of Tough Without a Gun, a Humphrey Bogart biography.

Joel Kotkin is a Distinguished Presidential Fellow at Chapman University in Orange County, California.

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

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

Steven Malanga is the senior editor of City Journal and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

Iain Murray is a vice president at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

Mario Polèse is a professor at the Centre Urbanisation Culture Société at Montreal’s Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique.

Peter D. Salins is a Manhattan Institute senior fellow and a professor of political science at SUNY’s Stony Brook University.

David Schoenbrod is a professor at New York Law School and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.

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

Sol Stern is a contributing editor of City Journal and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

Luigi Zingales is a professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a contributing editor of City Journal.

Soundings:

Ethan Epstein is a writer based in Portland, Oregon. Daniel Finkelstein is executive editor of the Times (of London). André Glucksmann is a French philosopher; his article was translated by Alexis Cornel. Fred Siegel is a contributing editor of City Journal and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Clark Whelton was a speechwriter for New York City mayors Ed Koch and Rudy Giuliani. Marcus A. Winters is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and an assistant professor in the College of Education at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

Artists:

Sean Delonas is the cartoonist for the New York Post. Alberto Mena is 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 The New Yorker, the New York Times, and many other publications. Harvey Wang has published five books of photography, including Harvey Wang’s New York. Ryu Itadani was born in 1974 in Osaka, Japan, and now lives and works in Berlin. His website is www.ryuitadani.com, and he is represented by the Marunouchi Gallery in Tokyo (www.marunouchigallery.com).

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