Authors

John Kekes is the author of more than a dozen books on moral philosophy, and epistemology, including A Case for Conservatism, Against Liberalism, The Illusions of Egalitarianism, The Art of Life, and The Roots of Evil.

John M. Ellis is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of German Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He taught at universities in England, Wales, and Canada before joining UCSC in 1966, serving as dean of the Graduate Division in 1977–86.

John Marini is the preeminent scholar on the theory and practice of the administrative state, and principle exponent of the idea that the administrative state in violating the separation of powers and conferring law-making authority on the unelected bureaucracy and judiciary represents the radical overturning of the Constitution and repudiation of our Founding principles.

John McBride was educated at Rice University (BA 1968, MA 1971) and the University of Virginia (PhD 1977). He taught high school history in Chattanooga, Tennessee, from 1974 to 2010 at the Baylor School and David Brainerd Christian School.

John Rosenthal is a European-based journalist and political analyst who specializes in EU politics and transatlantic security issues. He has been a regular contributor to National Review Online, Policy Review magazine, The Weekly Standard, and World Affairs journal.

John Tamny is Political Economy editor at Forbes, a senior economic adviser to Toreador Research & Trading, and editor of RealClearMarkets.com (RCM). A spin-off of the policy website RealClearPolitics, RCM seeks to compile top-quality information and opinion about the stock markets and global economy. Mr. Tamny frequently writes about the securities markets, along with tax, trade and monetary policy issues that impact those markets for a variety of publications including the Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, Financial Times, National Review and London’s Daily Telegraph.

John Yoo is the Emanuel Heller Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and a former Justice Department official during the George W. Bush administration.

Jonathan V. Last is a senior writer at the Weekly Standard and author of What to Expect When No One’s Expecting: America’s coming demographic disaster as well as editor of the trilogy The Seven Deadly Virtues and The Dadly Virtues, and The Christmas Virtues. He lives in Virginia with his wife and four children.

Jorge Masetti lives with his wife in Paris.

Jose A. Cabranes, a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, was general counsel of Yale University when appointed to the federal bench in 1979. He thereafter served long terms as a trustee of Yale, Colgate University, and, most recently, his undergraduate alma mater, Columbia University.

JOSEPH EPSTEIN is the author of thirty-one books, among them books on divorce, ambition, snobbery, friendship, envy, and gossip.

Joseph P. Duggan is the head of C-Suite Strategic Counsel, an international business and public affairs consultancy. He served on the editorial board of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, in the Reagan State Department on the staffs of Ambassadors Jeane Kirkpatrick and Edward Rowny, and as a White House speechwriter for President George H.W. Bush. From 2009 to 2015 he worked in Saudi Arabia as speechwriter for the CEO of Aramco.

Joseph Tartakovsky is the former Deputy Solicitor General of Nevada and a practicing attorney in constitutional and appellate law at an international law firm.

Joshua Mitchell is professor of political at Georgetown University. The author of numerous journal articles and four books, most recently, Tocqueville in Arabia, Professor Mitchell’s research focuses on Western political philosophy and theology.

Joshua Muravchik, a Distinguished Fellow at the World Affairs Institute, is the author of hundreds of articles appearing in all major U.S. newspapers and intellectual magazines, as well as ten previous books including Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism; Exporting Democracy: Fulfilling America’s Destiny; Trailblazers of the Arab Spring: Voices of Democracy in the Middle East; and Liberal Oasis: The Truth About Israel.