Authors

Jean-François Revel (1924-2006) was a French journalist, author, philosopher and a member of the Académie française from June 1998 onwards. He was perhaps best known for Without Marx or Jesus, How Democracies Perish, and The Totalitarian Temptation. Until his death in April 2006, he lived in Paris.

Jed Babbin is a former Air Force officer who served as a deputy undersecretary of defense in the George H. W. Bush administration. He is a senior fellow of the London Center for Policy Research.

Jeffrey Bell played an active role in federal tax budget reform as an aid to Ronald Reagan in the 1970s and 1980s. He presently serves on the Board of Directors of the American Conservative Union and of the Campaign Finance Institute at George Washington University.

Jeffrey E. Paul is a research professor in the Social Philosophy Center of the John Chambers College of Business and Economics at West Virginia University.

JENS KURT HEYCKE was educated in Economics and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago, the London School of Economics, and Princeton University.

Jeremy Black is Established Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He is, or has been, on a number of editorial boards, including the Journal of Military History, the Journal of the Royal United Services Institute, and History Today, and was editor of Archives.

Jeremy Rabkin is Professor of Law at George Mason University and was, for over two decades, a professor in the Department of Government at Cornell University. Professor Rabkin serves on the Board of Directors of the U.S. Institute of Peace, the Board of Academic Advisers of the American Enterprise Institute, and the Board of Directors of the Center for Individual Rights.

Jessica Gavora is a Washington writer and public policy expert. She is currently the chief speechwriter for Attorney General John Ashcroft and a senior policy advisor at the Department of Justice.

Jessica Tarlov is a senior strategist working for Schoen Consulting in New York City. She has experience on a range of projects including advising clients on messaging strategies and on design and execution of polling projects, both domestically and internationally.

Joel Engel has authored and co-authored more than fifteen book covering topics such as narrative nonfiction, essays, sports, satire, pop culture, biography, and autobiography.

Joel Kotkin is the Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University in Orange, California and Executive Director of the Houston-based Center for Opportunity Urbanism (opportunityurbanism.org). He is Executive Editor of the widely read website NewGeography.com.

John Agresto has taught at the University of Toronto, Kenyon College, Duke University, Wabash College, and the New School University. He was a scholar at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina and later served in senior positions at the National Endowment for the Humanities. He was president of St. John’s College for 11 years.

John Earl Haynes is co-author, with Harvey Klehr, of The Secret World of American Communism and Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America.

John Fonte is a senior fellow and director of the Center for American Common Culture at the Hudson Institute. His writing has been published in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, Israel, and Latin America, and he has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, BBC, France 24, and other news outlets.

John Fund is National Affairs Columnist for National Review magazine and a contributor to the Hotline newsletter.