Robert Bryce is a senior fellow at the Center for Energy Policy and the Environment at the Manhattan Institute.

Charles Chieppo is a senior fellow at the Pioneer Institute, a Massachusetts public policy think tank.

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

Daniel DiSalvo is an assistant professor of political science at the City College of New York–CUNY and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute’s Center for State and Local Leadership.

Jamie Gass is the director of the Center for School Reform at the Pioneer Institute.

Nicole Gelinas is a City Journal contributing editor, the Searle Freedom Trust Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and the author of After the Fall: Saving Capitalism from Wall Street—and Washington.

Tom Gray, a former editorial-page editor at the Los Angeles Daily News and senior editor at Investor’s Business Daily, writes on California’s economy and politics.

Allan Greenberg is an American architect, a former professor of architecture at Yale, and the author of Architecture of Democracy and George Washington, Architect.

Victor Davis Hanson is a contributing editor of City Journal. He is the author of the recent novel The End of Sparta and of the forthcoming The Savior Generals.

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. His next book is The Founders at Home.

Steven Malanga is the senior editor of City Journal and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. His latest book is Shakedown: The Continuing Conspiracy Against the American Taxpayer.

Pierre Manent is a French political scientist. His essay was translated by Alexis Cornel.

James Panero is the managing editor of The New Criterion. His Twitter handle is jamespanero.

James Stergios is the executive director of the Pioneer Institute. He writes on various policy issues and blogs on education for the Boston Globe’s website.

Sol Stern is a contributing editor of City Journal, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and the author of A Century of Palestinian Rejectionism and Jew Hatred.

John B. Taylor is the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University and the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution. His article is adapted from the 2012 Friedrich Hayek Lecture, which he delivered on winning the Manhattan Institute’s Hayek Prize.

Soundings:

Joel Kotkin is a City Journal contributing editor and the Distinguished Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University. Benjamin A. Plotinsky is the managing editor of City Journal. Guy Sorman, a City Journal contributing editor and French public intellectual, is the author of Economics Does Not Lie.

Artists:

Alberto Mena is a graphic designer based in New York City. Robert Pizzo is an award-winning illustrator whose work can be seen at robertpizzo.com. 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 elsewhere. Fumio Tanai is a Tokyo-born photographer working in New York; his pictures here are from his series Under the Heavens—NYC Pedestrians. Harvey Wang has published five books of photos, including Harvey Wang’s New York, and is working on a film about the end of the chemical era in photography. Cover artist David FeBland was born in London in 1949 and has received degrees from the University of Virginia and the University of Manchester. He has participated in more than 70 solo and group shows since 1995 and has been reviewed or featured in Art in America, the New York Times, American Artist, New American Paintings, The Spectator, and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, among many others. He is represented by the George Billis Gallery in New York City.

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