Theodore Dalrymple is a contributing editor of City Journal, the Dietrich Weismann Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and the author of many books, including Not with a Bang but a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline.

Daniel DiSalvo is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, an assistant professor of political science in the Colin L. Powell School at the City College of New York-CUNY, and author of Government Against Itself: Public Union Power and Its Consequences.

Stephen Eide is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute’s Center for State and Local Leadership.

Nicole Gelinas is a City Journal contributing editor, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and the author of After the Fall: Saving Capitalism from Wall Street-and Washington.

Matthew Hennessey is a City Journal associate editor. He homeschools his children.

Howard Husock, a contributing editor of City Journal, is the Manhattan Institute‘s vice president for policy research.

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 Eskimo Hunts in Miami.

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, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and the author of Shakedown: The Continuing Conspiracy Against the American Taxpayer.

Walter Olson is senior fellow at the Cato Institute and author of The Rule of Lawyers, The Litigation Explosion, and other books.

Guy Sorman, a City Journal contributing editor and French public intellectual, is the author of many books, including Economics Does Not Lie.

Paul Starobin is a former Moscow bureau chief for Business Week and is writing a book on the city of Charleston, South Carolina, on the eve of the Civil War.

Bert Stratton writes the blog Klezmer Guy: Real Music & Real Estate.

Michael J. Totten is a contributing editor of City Journal and the author of six books, including Tower of the Sun and Where the West Ends.

Adam J. White is counsel at Boyden Gray & Associates, an adjunct fellow of the Manhattan Institute, and a contributing editor of City Journal.

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Oren Cass is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a City Journal contributing editor. Aaron M. Renn is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal.

Artists:

Phil Buehler and Steve Siegel began a long collaboration photographing and making films about New York City when they were in high school in the early 1970s, and they’ve been documenting the city ever since. These images come from a short 16mm documentary they made in 1973, when Coney Island was in the midst of a long decline yet still a place that millions of New Yorkers enjoyed each summer. Alberto Mena is a graphic designer based in New York. Natalie Nakamura is a communications associate at the Manhattan Institute. Harvey Wang is a New York-based photographer who has published six books of photography. His new book, From Darkroom to Daylight, explores the change from film to digital in photography and features portraits and interviews with important figures in the field. Cover artist Patti Mollica, an impressionistic and contemporary painter, believes that a painter’s job is to show the viewer the inherent beauty of all subjects and scenes. She has been selected by Golden Paints to conduct lectures and facilitate workshops demonstrating “Creative Techniques Using Golden Paints and Mediums” and has published several books on color theory and painting technique. She lives and works with her fellow artist and jazz-musician husband, Mark Hagan, in New York City and Nyack. Her work can be found at www.mollicastudio.com and www.newyorkpainter.blogspot.com.

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