Monique Canto-Sperber is president of Paris Sciences et Lettres–Quartier latin, a higher education and research institution. Her conversation with André Glucksmann originally appeared, in slightly different form, in Philosophie magazine.

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.

André Glucksmann is a French philosopher and author of many books, including The Discourse of War.

Victor Davis Hanson is a contributing editor of City Journal and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

Howard Husock, a contributing editor of City Journal, is the Manhattan Institute’s vice president for policy research. He would like to hear about others who, like Alice Ely Chapman, are working to alleviate poverty and encourage upward mobility.

Kay S. Hymowitz is a City Journal contributing editor, the William E. Simon Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and the author of Marriage and Caste in America: Separate and Unequal Families in a Post-Marital Age.

Stefan Kanfer, a City Journal contributing editor, is the author, most recently, of the thriller The Eskimo Hunts in Miami.

Adam Kirsch is a senior editor at The New Republic and a columnist for Tablet. His most recent book is Why Trilling Matters.

Eugene Kontorovich is a professor at Northwestern University School of Law, specializing in international and constitutional law.

Charles Lane is an editorial writer and columnist for the Washington Post. The views expressed in this article are his own, not those of the Post editorial board.

Myron Magnet, City Journal’s editor-at-large and its editor from 1994 through 2006, is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal. His latest book is The Founders at Home.

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

John O. McGinnis is the George C. Dix Professor in Constitutional Law at Northwestern University School of Law and the author of Accelerating Democracy.

Aaron M. Renn is an urban analyst, consultant, and publisher of the urban policy website The Urbanophile.

Michael J. Totten is a City Journal contributing editor and the author of five books, including The Road to Fatima Gate.

Soundings:

Stephen Eide is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute’s Center for State and Local Leadership. Heather Mac Donald is a contributing editor of City Journal and the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Mark Pulliam, writing from Austin, Texas, practiced labor and employment law for 30 years.

Artists:

Keith Barraclough’s career has spanned more than 20 years, during which he has collaborated with clients including The Discovery Channel, Washington Post magazine, and Scientific American. Robb de Camp is a 2013 Associated Press award-winning photographer who works out of his riverfront studio in Marietta, Ohio. Sean Delonas is an award-winning illustrator and syndicated cartoonist. Alberto Mena is a graphic designer based 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. Harvey Wang has published five books of photography, and his work has been exhibited in the Smithsonian, the Museum of the City of New York, and the New-York Historical Society. Cover artist Linda Adato was born in England, Adato studied at Hornsey College of Art. She immigrated to the United States in 1962 and received a B.A. and an M.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles. Her work is in the collections of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts of The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, British Museum, Detroit Institute of Arts, DeCordova Museum, Duxbury Art Complex Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Mississippi Museum of Art, New York Public Library, and other institutions. More of her work can be seen at www.lindaadato.com.

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