Authors

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.

LOGAN BEIRNE is an Olin Scholar at Yale Law School. Prior to this appointment, Logan practiced as an attorney with the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell in New York City and was a Fulbright Scholar at Queen’s University. He received his JD from Yale Law School, where he was a Coker Fellow and was awarded the Edgar M. Cullen Prize for his constitutional scholarship.

Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest-ranking intelligence official ever to defect from the Soviet Bloc, served as acting chief of communist Romania’s espionage service and top adviser to President Nicolae Ceausescu.

MADELEINE McDOWELL is a historian of the nineteenth century.

Maimon Schwarzchild is a professor of law at the University of San Diego and an affiliated professor at the University of Haifa.

Marcello Pera teaches political philosophy at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome. He has been a professor of the philosophy of science at the universities of Catania and Pisa, and a visiting fellow in many universities and institutes in the United States, England, and Israel. Mr. Pera served as president of the Italian Senate from 2001 to 2006. The author of several publications on the history and philosophy of science, he co-authored a book with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) titled Without Roots: The West, Relativism, Christianity, Islam (2005).

Marco Grassi, of a Florentine family long active as collectors, dealers, and scholars of Renaissance art, completed undergraduate studies at Princeton. After military service, he trained as a fine arts conservator at the Uffizi in Florence, as well as in Rome and Zürich.

Mark Bauerlein lives in Atlanta and teaches at Emory University.

Mark Gauvreau Judge has written for the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Weekly Standard and other publications. He is the author of If It Ain’t Got that Swing: The Rebirth of Grown-Up Culture.

Mark Krikorian is executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies and a contributor at National Review Online.

Mark Moyar holds the William P. Harris Chair in Military History at Hillsdale College. His past academic appointments include the Kim T. Adamson Chair of Insurgency and Terrorism at the U.S. Marine Corps University and fellowships at the Joint Special Operations University and Texas A&M University. During the Trump administration, he served in the U.S. Agency for International Development as the director of the Office of Civilian-Military Cooperation.

Mark P. Mills, a physicist, is a Manhattan Institute senior fellow, a faculty fellow at Northwestern University, and partner in Montrose Lane, an energy-tech venture fund. He is author of Digital Cathedrals (2020) and Work in the Age of Robots (2018), and he is the co-author of The Bottomless Well (2006).