- Dave Winer
Dave Winer , 39, has been a commercial software developer, marketer and software demoer since 1979. Winer pioneered the category of outline processing, shipping ThinkTank for the IBM PC, Apple II and Macintosh in 1983 and 1984; Ready for the IBM PC in 1985 and MORE for Macintosh in 1986. MORE won MacUser's first Product of the Year Eddy in 1986. He founded and was president of Living Videotext, Inc., which merged with Symantec in 1987. - Robert Dreyfuss
Robert Dreyfuss is a freelance investigative journalist whose work appears in "The Nation", "Rolling Stone", "Mother Jones", "The American Prospect", and many other publications. His work also appears on line at TomPaine.com. Dreyfuss received a bachelor's degree from Columbia University. After graduating, he became the "Middle East Intelligence Correspondent" for the Executive Intelligence Review, the journal of the Lyndon LaRouche movement. - Marc Cooper
Marc Cooper is an American journalist, author, and blogger. He is currently a contributing editor to "The Nation". He also pens the popular "Dissonance" column for "LA Weekly". His writing has appeared in such publications as the "Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Magazine, The New Yorker, The Christian Science Monitor, Playboy" and "Rolling Stone". He has also been television producer for PBS, CBS News, … - Ariel Levy
Ariel Levy (born October 17, 1974) is a contributing editor at "New York magazine" and author of the book "Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture". Her work has appeared in "The Washington Post", "Vogue", "Slate", "Men's Journal" and "Blender". Levy was raised in Larchmont, New York, and attended Wesleyan University in the 1990s. Her experiences at Wesleyan, which she says had "co-ed showers, … - Gloria Anne Borger
Gloria Anne Borger (born 1952) [ 1 ] is a political pundit, American journalist , and columnist . Borger is presently a contributing editor and columnist for US News and World Report magazine and a Senior Political Analyst at CNN. She was formerly the National Political Correspondent for CBS News . Since joining CNN in 2007, she has frequently been seen covering the 2008 campaign trail. - Nick Tosches
Nick Tosches (born 1949) is an American writer, music journalist, novelist, biographer and poet. After different jobs, he started writing with music magazines, including "Creem" and "Fusion". His second book, "Hellfire", published in 1982, a biography of Jerry Lee Lewis, established him as a significant writer on the music scene. His subsequent biographies have covered the lives of Dean Martin, Michele Sindona, Sonny Liston, … - David Gelernter
David Hillel Gelernter (b. 1955) is a professor of computer science at Yale University. In the 1980s, he made seminal contributions to the field of parallel computation, specifically the tuple space coordination model, as embodied by the Linda programming system. Bill Joy attributes Linda as the inspiration for many elements of JavaSpaces and Jini. - Robert Love
Robert Matthew Love (born September 25, 1981) is an American author, speaker, and open source software developer. He is best known as a Linux kernel hacker, due to his contributions to the Linux kernel, with notable work including the preemptive kernel, process scheduler, kernel event layer, virtual memory subsystem, and inotify. Love is also active in the GNOME community, working on NetworkManager, GNOME Volume Manager, Project Utopia and Beagle. - Dave Kopel
Dave Kopel is an American author, attorney, political science researcher and contributing editor to several publications. He is currently Research Director of the Independence Institute, Associate Policy Analyst at the Cato Institute, contributor to the National Review magazine and Volokh Conspiracy legal blog. Previously he was Adjunct Professor of Law, New York University, on the Board of Directors of the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, … - Thomas de Zengotita
Thomas de Zengotita (born c. 1944) is an author and contributing editor at Harper's Magazine. He also holds an anthropology Ph.D from Columbia University and teaches at the Dalton School and New York University. His most recent book is called "Mediated: How the Media Shapes your World and the Way you Live in it" (2005). de Zengotita is also a contributor to the Huffington Post blog. He is working on a book entitled "Human Rights - a new foundation" - Andrew Tobias
Andrew Tobias (born April 20, 1947) is an American journalist, author and columnist, whose main body of work is on investment, but who has also written on politics, insurance and other topics. He is also the current treasurer of the Democratic National Committee (since 1999). Tobias graduated from Harvard University in 1968 with a degree (B.A.) in Slavic languages and literatures. In 1972, he obtained his Masters of Business Administration degree from Harvard as well. - Daniel Tynan
I'm a freelance writer in Wilmington, NC. Snappy copy for all occasions. Reasonable rates for people I like. Inquire within. - Brink Lindsey
As Cato's vice president for research, Brink Lindsey helps to oversee the Institute's current research agenda and develops new research programs. From 1998 to 2004, he was director of Cato's Center for Trade Policy Studies , helping to make it a leading voice for free trade. An attorney with extensive experience in international trade regulation, Lindsey was formerly director of regulatory studies at Cato and senior editor of Regulation magazine. - Bart Kosko
Dr. Kosko received his bachelors degrees in Economics and Philosophy from the University of Southern California, the masters degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of California, San Diego, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Irvine. His research interests include Adaptive Systems, Fuzzy Theory, Neural Networks, Dynamical Systems, Nonlinear Signal Processing, Intelligent Agents, Smart Materials, and Stochastic Resonance. - Shelby Steele
Shelby Steele is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution whose research examines the role of race in American society and the consequences of contemporary social programs on race relations. Steele has written extensively for major publications including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal . He is also the author of several books including, most recently, A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win . - David Moos
David Moos is the the Curator of Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Moos received a doctorate in art history from Columbia University and is a contributing editor to Art Papers and Art US. Moos served as curator of contemporary art at the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama. In this position, he organized the traveling exhibitions, Jonathan Lasker: Selective Identity, William Wegman: Fashion Photographs, and Radcliffe Bailey: The Magic City. - Geoff Wolinetz
Geoff Wolinetz is a writer and co-founder of Yankee Pot Roast, an online magazine devoted to literary and pop-culture satire. A 1998 graduate of Binghamton University, Wolinetz has written for several online publications including "McSweeney's Internet Tendency", the Black Table, Flak magazine and the now-defunct Haypenny. In addition to his writing, Wolinetz also works at Turner Broadcasting Sales, Inc as Director of Entertainment Digital Ad Operations. - Robert Kagan
Robert Kagan is a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he specializes in issues of U.S. leadership and foreign policy. He is co-founder with William Kristol of the Project for a New American Century. Before joining the Carnegie Endowment, he worked in the State Department as a member of the Policy Planning Staff and as principal speech writer for Secretary of State George P. Shultz during the Reagan Administration. - Richard Weitz
As a Senior Staff Member of the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis (IFPA) from 2003 to 2005, Dr. Weitz analyzed homeland security policies and evaluated deterrence methods to prevent rogue states and non-state actors from using weapons of mass destruction. From 2002 to 2004, Dr. Weitz was a consultant for the Center for Strategic and International Studies , DFI International, Inc. and the Defense Science Board . - Alex Bilmes
Alex Bilmes is a British journalist. Currently features director at the UK edition of Conde Nast's men's magazine, "GQ", and contributing editor at "GQ Style", he also writes regularly for British "Vogue" and "The Spectator". In addition, he has written for a number of British national newspapers including "The Independent", "The Sunday Times", "The Observer" and the London "Evening Standard". - Atul Chitnis
Atul Chitnis (1962-) is an Indian consulting technologist known for his work in the fields of data networks, internet and intranets, Linux and Free and Open Source Software and mobile computing in India. He is also the founder of FOSS.IN (formerly Linux Bangalore), one of Asia's largest FOSS conferences. - Leo Laporte
Leo Laporte is a podcaster for TWiT.tv and is featured in podcasts such as This Week in Tech, Macbreak Weekly, does a video podcast called Macbreak Video, and much more. He was on Tech TV with shows like The Screensavers, and now makes his name from podcasting and more. His personal site and biography can be found at Leoville . - Janice McDonald
Janice McDonald (born 1958) is a former Miss South Carolina USA. A native of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, she is the daughter of Dorothy McDonald and the late Weyman McDonald. Janice was a 20 year old senior at the University of South Carolina, majoring in broadcast journalism, when she won the title of Miss South Carolina USA in 1979. During her year as Miss South Carolina USA she competed in the Miss USA Pageant in Biloxi, Mississippi, … - Gloria Steinem
Steinem's lifelong career as a writer and journalist began after college. A co-founder of New York magazine in 1968, Steinem was always active in a wide array of political and social causes. She became a major feminist leader in the late 1960s and in 1971 co-founded MS Magazine, where she serves as contributing editor today. - Irwin Stelzer
Irwin Stelzer is a business adviser and director of economic policy studies at the Hudson Institute. In our view, Irwin Stelzer always seems to present a well thought out and sensible view. - James Fallows
James Fallows is a national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly and has worked for the magazine for more than 25 years. He has written for the magazine on a wide range of topics, including national security policy, American politics, the development and impact of technology, economic trends and patterns, and U.S. relations with the Middle East, Asia, and other parts of the world. - Ronald Grigor Suny
Ronald Grigor Suny is currently the Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of Social and Political History at the University of Michigan , and Emeritus Professor of political science and history at the University of Chicago . He was the first holder of the Alex Manoogian Chair in Modern Armenian History at the University of Michigan , after beginning his career at Oberlin College . Suny graduated from Swarthmore College and got his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1968 . - Alessandro Blasetti
Alessandro Blasetti (3 July 1900, Rome, Latium, Italy, 1 February 1987, Rome, Lazio, Italy was an Italian film director who influenced Italian neorealism. He was president of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1967. - Mark Scrimshire
Technology aware Management Consultant with over 25 years experience in multi-national environments. Recent experience has been in delivering programs in the Telecommunications Industry but experience also encompasses other industries that depend upon technology including: - Government; - Energy; - Financial Services; I specialize in rapid deployment of solutions to address business problems using Web 2.0 technologies and techniques. I am looking for project opportunities that will . . . - Garry Kimovich Kasparov
After long term friction with the international chess organisation, FIDE, Kasparov set up the rival organisation, the Professional Chess Association (PCA) and arranged a World Championship match in 1993 in which he beat British Grandmaster, Nigel Short. At the same time FIDE held their official Championship match between former World Champion, Anatoly Karpov and Jan Timman which Karpov won. Both Kasparov and Karpov claim the title of World Champion. - Suze Orman
Suze Orman has been called "a force in the world of personal finance" and a "one-woman financial advice powerhouse" by USA Today . A two-time Emmy Award-winning television host, New York Times mega bestselling author, magazine and online columnist, writer/producer, and one of the top motivational speakers in the world today, Orman is undeniably America's most recognized expert on personal finance. - Lawrence Kudlow
Lawrence Kudlow expresses faith in Messiah after emerging from a battle with addiction. In the 1980s he served as undersecretary of US Office of Management and Budget. In 1994 The New York Times published a full-page article, "A Wall Street Star's Agonizing Confession," about Kudlow's life and addiction to cocaine. - Peggy Noonan
Columnist Peggy Noonan apparentlyagrees with my identification but does not like Palin's approach to politics; perhaps because Noonan is out of touch with ... - Shashi Tharoor
Shashi Tharoor , Former United Nations Under-Secretary General for Communications and Public Information, and Author, India: From Midnight to the Millennium and Beyond - Pamela Samuelson
Pamela Samuelson is a Professor at the University of California at Berkeley with a joint appointment in the School of Information Management & Systems as well as in the School of Law where she is a Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. She teaches courses on intellectual property, cyberlaw and information policy. - Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Eric Hitchens (born April 13, 1949, in Portsmouth , England ) is a journalist, author and literary critic. Hitchens received degrees in philosophy, politics and economics from Balliol College , Oxford , in 1970. From 1971-1981, he worked in Britain as book reviewer for The Times newspaper. He emigrated to the United States in 1981, and has written regularly, or been a contributing editor for Harper's , Vanity Fair and The Nation . - Soledad O'Brien
Soledad O'Brien is the co-anchor of CNN American Morning . She joined CNN in 2003. The program is based in New York City and is CNN's flagship morning program. At CNN she was part of the team that won a George Foster Peabody award for coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. She was part of the team that won an Alfred I DuPont award for the coverage of the tsunami disaster in Southeast Asia in December 2004. - Keith Ablow
Keith Ablow is a psychiatrist, writer and television personality who treats men and women across the country, in Europe and in Asia who come from every corner of society-college students, married couples, Fortune 500 executives, the homeless, mental health professionals and high-ranking government officials.In addition to Dr. Ablow's ongoing work with patients, he has testified as an expert witness on forensic psychiatry in some of America's most highly-publicized trials. - David Brooks
Mr. Brooks joined The Weekly Standard at its inception in September 1995, having worked at The Wall Street Journal for the previous nine years. His last post at the Journal was as op-ed editor. Prior to that, he was posted in Brussels, covering Russia, the Middle East, South Africa and European affairs. His first post at the Journal was as editor of the book review section, and he filled in for five months as the Journal's movie critic. - Louis Menand
Louis Menand , Professor of English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, is a contributing editor of The New York Review of Books. He is the author of The Metaphysical Club (forthcoming, 2001) and coeditor of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, vol. 7 (2000).
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