Authors

Todd Huizinga is director of International Outreach at the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is a cofounder of the Transatlantic Christian Council and a research fellow of Calvin College’s Paul B. Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity and Politics.

Todd Sheets is the author of 2008: What Really Happened.

Tony Rafael is a Los Angeles-based writer who has spent the last ten years researching street gangs. Living in the “ground zero” of the gang culture, he has interviewed scores of active and retired gang members and has been granted unprecedented access to active investigations and criminal trials.

Tony Woodlief is Executive Vice President at State Policy Network, a nationwide community that cultivates and supports state-based organizations working on behalf of citizen freedom and self-determination.

TRENT ENGLAND serves as Executive Vice President at the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, where he also directs the Save Our States project and is the David and Ann Brown Distinguished Fellow.

Victor Davis Hanson is a senior fellow in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the author of 17 books on ancient, military, and social history.

Victoria C. Gardner Coates is a cultural historian who received her Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance art from the University of Pennsylvania. Her work has appeared in The Sixteenth-Century Journal, Gazette des Beaux-Arts and Renaissance Studies. As the director of research in the office of Donald Rumsfeld, Dr. Coates provided editorial support for his best-selling memoir Known and Unknown. 

Vincent Carroll is editor of the editorial pages at the “Rocky Mountain News.” He lives in Denver.

William B. Allen is a resident scholar and the former chief operating officer of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Walter A. McDougall is the Alloy-Ansin Professor of International Relations and Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has become legendary among students. His many honors include the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for history.

Walter Olson is an author and critic whose acclaimed books—The Litigation Explosion, The Excuse Factory, and The Rule of Lawyers—have changed the way we think about the American legal system. A senior fellow at the Cato Institute, he is a frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal and other leading newspapers and has written columns for Great Britain’s Times Online and Reason. His online work includes Overlawyered.com, widely cited as the oldest blog about law.

Ward Connerly first burst onto the American scene 1995 as the University of California Regent who had forced the largest public university in the country to become color-blind in its admissions policies.

Warren Treadgold is National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Byzantine Studies and Professor of History at Saint Louis University.

Wayne Winegarden, PhD, is a senior fellow in business and economics at PRI and director of PRI’s Center for Medical Economics and Innovation. Also the principal of an economic advisory firm, he has published in the Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Investor’s Business Daily, Forbes.com, and USA Today.

Lawyer and award-winning author, Wesley J. Smith, is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism. He is also a consultant to the Patients Rights Council.