Authors

Matthew Spalding is the Kirby Professor in Constitutional Government and the Dean of the Van Andel Graduate School of Government at Hillsdale College’s Washington, D.C., campus.

Meghan Clyne is the managing editor of National Affairs. She has worked as a special assistant and speechwriter to President George W. Bush, speechwriter to First Lady Laura Bush, a reporter in New York and Washington for the New York Sun, and an associate editor at National Review. Her writings have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, the Weekly Standard, the Guardian, and elsewhere. She holds a BA from Yale University.

MEIR SOLOVEICHIK serves as Director of Yeshiva University’s Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought and as Rabbi at Congregation Shearith Israel in New York, the oldest Jewish congregation in the United States.

Melanie Kirkpatrick is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and a former deputy editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page.

Melanie Phillips is a British journalist, broadcaster and author. Her weekly column, which currently appears in The Times, has been published over the years in the Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times and Daily Mail.

Melik Kaylan has written about international politics and culture for the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and Forbes for more than two decades. He has regularly reported from conflict zones throughout the world, from the North Korean border to the Caucasus, the Middle East, and the former Iron Curtain countries.

Michael A. Ledeen is the Freedom Scholar at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He is a contributing editor at National Review Online and a blogger on Pajamas Media. Previously, he served as a consultant to the National Security Council, the State Department, and the Defense Department.

He is the Jack Roth Senior Fellow in American Politics at the Claremont Institute. He is also Lecturer in Politics and Research Fellow at Hillsdale College’s Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship in Washington, D.C. He has served as deputy assistant to President Trump, and in other political and corporate roles.

Michael B. Mukasey served as Attorney General of the United States from November 2007 to January 2009, and as a U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York from 1988 to 2006, where he presided over, among other cases, those involving Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and Jose Padilla. He is now a lawyer in private practice in New York.

MICHAEL BARONE is senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner and a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He has been a vice president of the polling firm of Peter D. Hart Research Associates, a member of the editorial page staff of the Washington Post, a senior writer with U.S. News & World Report, and a senior staff editor at Reader’s Digest.

Michael Fumento began writing about biotechnology as a reporter for Investor’s Business Daily in 1993. A former senior fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C. and a weekly medical/health columnist for the Scripps Howard News Service

Michael Gibson is the cofounder of the venture capital fund 1517, which is devoted to backing dropouts and people who never stepped foot on a college campus.

Michael J. Lotus writes as “Lexington Green” for the Chicago Boyz blog, on history, politics and books. He is the editor and lead contributor to The Clausewitz Roundtable (Ever Victorious Press, 2013).

Michael J. Totten is a foreign correspondent and foreign-policy analyst who has reported from the Middle East, the Balkans, and the Caucasus. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Daily News, City Journal, LA Weekly, the Jerusalem Post, Beirut’s Daily Star, Reason Magazine, Azure Magazine, and the Australian edition of Newsweek. He is a contributing editor at World Affairs and City Journal and writes regularly for Commentary. He lives with his wife and two cats in Portland, Oregon, and is a former resident of Beirut. Visit his website at MichaelTotten.com.

Michael Novak is distinguished visiting professor at Ave Maria University in Florida, after thirty-two years in the chair in religion and public policy at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC. He was the 1994 recipient of the Templeton Prize, and was on three occasions US ambassador under Ronald Reagan.