Authors

Kim R. Holmes is a Distinguished Fellow and former Vice President of The Heritage Foundation and a former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State. His published works include Rebound: Getting America Back to Great (Rowman & Littlefield, 2013) and Liberty’s Best Hope: American Leadership for the 21st Century (Heritage Foundation, 2007).

Kimberly Kagan is the founder and president of the Institute for the Study of War. She is a military historian who has taught at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Yale, Georgetown, and American University.

Lance Morrow, the Henry Grunwald Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, is an American essayist whose work appears regularly in the Wall Street Journal and City Journal.

Lance T. Izumi is Koret Senior Fellow and senior director of education studies at the Pacific Research Institute. He is the co-author of the groundbreaking book Not as Good as You Think: Why the Middle Class Needs School Choice and co-executive producer of the award-winning 2009 PBS-broadcast film documentary Not as Good As You Think: The Myth of the Middle Class School. He also appears in the Academy Award-winning documentary Waiting for Superman.

Larry P. Arnn is the president of Hillsdale College, where he is also a professor of politics and history.

Larry Witham has written on on science and religion for Scientific American, Nature, and Christian Century, and he is the author of five books, including Where Darwin Meets the Bible (Oxford).

Laura Ingraham is an American radio talk show host, best-selling author, and conservative political commentator. Her nationally syndicated talk show, The Laura Ingraham Show, airs throughout the United States on Courtside Entertainment.

Lawrence F. Kaplan is a Senior Editor at The New Republic. William Kristol is editor of The Weekly Standard and a political analyst for the Fox News Channel.

Lawrence M. Mead is Professor of Politics and Public Policy at New York University.

Lee Smith is a New York Times bestselling author. His titles include The Plot Against the President: The True Story of How Congressman Devin Nunes Uncovered the Biggest Political Scandal in U.S. History, The Permanent Coup: How Enemies Foreign and Domestic Targeted the American President, and The Strong Horse: Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations.

Lela Gilbert is a prolific and award-winning writer who has authored or co-authored more than sixty books. She is a Christian and has resided in Israel since 2006.

Leo Thorsness (February 14, 1932 – May 2, 2017) received his Medal of Honor after he was released from his North Vietnamese prison in 1973. From 1988 to 1992, he served as a senator from Washington State.

Leoluca Orlando is mayor of Palermo, Italy. A former member of the Italian Parliament and the European Parliament, he was given the Bayard Rustin Human Rights Award for 2000 by the American Federation of Teachers.

Leon R. Kass is a Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and Hertog Fellow in Social Thought at the American Enterprise Institute.

Linda Bridges was hired by William F. Buckley Jr. for the editorial department of National Review in 1969, and served as his literary assistant for the last five years of his life.