Hadley Arkes is the Ney Professor Emeritus at Amherst College and the founder/director of the James Wilson Institute on Natural Rights and the American Founding, in Washington, D.C.

Alex Armlovich is a policy analyst at the Manhattan Institute.

Seth Barron is project director of the Manhattan Institute’s NYC Initiative. He blogs about New York City politics at City Council Watch.

Theodore Dalrymple is a contributing editor of City Journal and the author of many books, including Not with a Bang but a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline.

Daniel DiSalvo is an associate professor of political science in the Colin Powell School at the City College of New York–CUNY and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

Nicole Gelinas is a City Journal contributing editor, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and the author of After the Fall: Saving Capitalism from Wall Street—and Washington.

Matthew Hennessey is associate editor of City Journal.

Peter W. Huber is a Manhattan Institute senior fellow and the author of The Cure in the Code: How 20th Century Law Is Undermining 21st Century Medicine.

Kay S. Hymowitz is a City Journal contributing editor, the William E. Simon Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and the author of the forthcoming The New Brooklyn: What It Takes to Bring a City Back.

Myron Magnet, City Journal’s editor-at-large and its editor from 1994 through 2006, is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal. His latest book is The Founders at Home.

Steven Malanga is the senior editor of City Journal, the George M. Yeager Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and the author of Shakedown: The Continuing Conspiracy Against the American Taxpayer.

John H. McWhorter is a City Journal contributing editor and the author of The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language.

Judith Miller is a City Journal contributing editor. Her latest book is The Story: A Reporter’s Journey.

Mario Polèse is a professor at Montreal’s Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique and the author of The Wealth and Poverty of Regions: Why Cities Matter.

Harry Stein is a contributing editor of City Journal and the author of No Matter What . . . They’ll Call This Book Racist and the comic novel Will Tripp, Pissed-Off Attorney-at-Law.

John Tierney is a contributing editor of City Journal, coauthor of Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Strength, and a contributing science columnist for the New York Times, where he previously wrote “The Big City” column.

Michael J. Totten is a contributing editor of City Journal and the author of six books, including Tower of the Sun and Where the West Ends.

Soundings: Milton Ezrati is a contributing editor at The National Interest and an affiliate of the Center for the Study of Human Capital at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). His most recent book is Thirty Tomorrows. Stefan Kanfer, a City Journal contributing editor, is the author, most recently, of The Eskimo Hunts in Miami. Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and the author of the New York Times bestseller The War on Cops. Aaron M. Renn is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal.

Artists: Best known as the cartoonist for the New York Post’s Page Six from 1990 to 2013, Sean Delonas is an award-winning painter/illustrator whose work has appeared in newspapers, magazines, and books and on television and Broadway.

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