Claire Berlinski, a City Journal contributing editor, is an American journalist who lives in Istanbul. She is the author of There Is No Alternative: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters.

Tom Chatfield is a British author and commentator on digital culture. His most recent books are How to Thrive in the Digital Age and Netymology.

Theodore Dalrymple is a contributing editor of City Journal and the Dietrich Weismann Fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

Adam Freedman covers legal affairs for Ricochet. His latest book is The Naked Constitution: What the Founders Said and Why It Still Matters. He is working on a book about states’ rights.

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

Victor Davis Hanson is a contributing editor of City Journal and the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

Kay S. Hymowitz is a contributing editor of City Journal, the William E. Simon Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and the author of Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys.

Adam Kirsch is a senior editor at The New Republic and a columnist for Tablet. His most recent book is Why Trilling Matters.

Joel Kotkin is a City Journal contributing editor and the Distinguished Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University.

Steven Malanga is the senior editor of City Journal and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. His latest book is Shakedown: The Continuing Conspiracy Against the American Taxpayer.

Ali Modarres is a professor of urban geography at California State University, Los Angeles.

James Panero is the managing editor of The New Criterion, where he writes about art every month. His Twitter handle is jamespanero.

Guy Sorman, a City Journal contributing editor and French public intellectual, is the author of many books, including Economics Does Not Lie. His article was translated by Alexis Cornel.

Paul Starobin grew up in Worcester, Massachusetts, and lives on Cape Cod. He is the author of After America: Narratives for the Next Global Age.

Michael J. Totten is a contributing editor of City Journal. He is the author of four books, including The Road to Fatima Gate.

Tevi Troy is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. His book What Jefferson Read, Ike Watched, and Obama Tweeted: 200 Years of Popular Culture in the White House will be published in September.

Soundings:

Bruce Bawer is the author of The Victims’ Revolution: The Rise of Identity Studies and the Closing of the Liberal Mind. Ben Boychuk is an associate editor of City Journal. Daniel DiSalvo is an assistant professor of political science at the City College of New York and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Heather Mac Donald is a contributing editor of City Journal and the John M. Olin Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Rajan Menon teaches political science at the City College of New York and is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. Troy Senik is the senior editor of Ricochet and a columnist and member of the editorial board at the Orange County Register. John Yoo is a professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.

Artists:

David Brabyn is a French-British freelance photojournalist based in New York; he is affiliated with Corbis Images. Sean Delonas is a freelance illustrator and syndicated cartoonist. Luc Dratwa is a photographer who lives in Brussels. Cover artist Diana Horowitz received her M.F.A. from Brooklyn College and completed graduate studies at the Tyler School of Art program in Rome. She is represented by Hirschl & Adler Modern in New York, where she has had three solo exhibitions. In 2005, she was elected a member of the National Academy of Design in New York. Her work is found in numerous private and public collections, including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Mississippi Museum of Art, the New-York Historical Society, the Museum of the City of New York, and the National Academy Museum in New York. Courtesy of Hirschl & Adler Modern (hirschlandadler.com).

Donate

City Journal is a publication of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research (MI), a leading free-market think tank. Are you interested in supporting the magazine? As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, donations in support of MI and City Journal are fully tax-deductible as provided by law (EIN #13-2912529).

Further Reading

Up Next