- Dahlia Lithwick
Dahlia Lithwick is a senior editor at "Slate". She writes "Supreme Court Dispatches" and "Jurisprudence" and has covered the Microsoft trial and other legal issues for "Slate". Before joining "Slate" as a freelancer in 1999, she worked for a family law firm in Reno, Nevada. Her work has appeared in "The New Republic", "ELLE", "The Ottawa Citizen", and "The Washington Post".
- Daniel Lyons
Daniel Lyons (born 1960, Massachusetts) is an American writer. He has written a book of short stories, The Last Good Man (1993), and a novel, Dog Days (1998).
- Brian Doherty
Brian Doherty is a Senior Editor at "Reason" magazine. He is the author of "This is Burning Man" (Little, Brown, 2004) and "Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement" (PublicAffairs, 2007). Before working for the Cato Institute in the early '90s, he served as an intern at "Liberty Magazine" and wrote on music and popular culture at The Independent Florida Alligator.
- Hendrik Hertzberg
Hendrik Hertzberg (b. 1943) is an American journalist, best known as the principal (and left-leaning) political commentator for "The New Yorker" magazine. He has also been a speechwriter for President Jimmy Carter and editor of "The New Republic", and is the author of "Politics: Observations & Arguments". The son of Sidney Hertzberg, a journalist and political activist, and Hazel Whitman Hertzberg, …
- Christopher Caldwell
Christopher Caldwell is a senior editor at "The Weekly Standard", as well as a regular contributor to The "Financial Times" and Slate Magazine. His writing also frequently appears in "The Wall Street Journal", "The New York Times" and "The Washington Post". He was also a regular contributor to "The Atlantic Monthly" and "The New York Press" in the past.
- Jacob Weisberg
Jacob Weisberg (born 1964) is an American political journalist, currently serving as editor of "Slate" magazine and a columnist for the Financial Times. He is the son of Lois Weisberg, a Chicago social activist and connector celebrated in Malcolm Gladwell's book "The Tipping Point". Weisberg's father, Bernard Weisberg, was a prominent Chicago lawyer and, later, judge. His parents were introduced at a cocktail party by novelist Ralph Ellison.
- Paul Jay
Paul Jay CEO and Senior Editor
- Radley Balko
Previously, Balko was a policy analyst for the Cato Institute specializing in civil liberties issues, where he published a paper on alcohol policy and a groundbreaking study on paramilitary police raids. He is a columnist for FoxNews.com and has been published in The Wall Street Journal, Playboy, Time , The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times , Slate , Forbes , ESPN, the National Post , Worth and numerous other publications.
- Steven Malanga
Steven Malanga is a contributing editor to "City Journal" and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, which publishes "City Journal". His primary area of focus is economic development within dense urban centers, with a particular emphasis on those areas in and surrounding New York and the Tri-State Area.
- David Sirota
David Sirota is the bestselling author of the books "Hostile Takeover" (2006) and "The Uprising" (2008). He is a fellow at the Campaign for America's Future and a board member of the Progressive States Network - both nonpartisan organizations. E-mail him at ds@davidsirota.com.
- Yossef Bodansky
Yossef Bodansky (born in Israel) is the Director of Research of the International Strategic Studies Association, and the Director of the Congressional Republican Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare of the US House of Representatives and a visiting scholar at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. In the 1980s, he served as a senior consultant for the Department of Defense and the Department of State.
- Jacob Sullum
Jacob Sullum is a senior editor at Reason magazine and Reason.com and a nationally syndicated columnist. Sullum is the author of two critically-acclaimed books: Saying Yes: In Defense of Drug Use (Tarcher/Penguin, 2004) and For Your Own Good: The Anti-Smoking Crusade and the Tyranny of Public Health (Free Press, 1998).
- Fred Barnes
Fred Barnes is executive editor of The Weekly Standard . From 1985 to 1995, he served as senior editor and White House correspondent for theNew Republic. He covered the Supreme Court and the White House for the Washington Star before moving on to the Baltimore Sun in 1979. He served as the national political correspondent for the Sun and wrote the "Presswatch" media column for the American Spectator.
- Doc Searls
Doc Searls is Senior Editor of Linux Journal , which has been covering the world's fastest-growing operating system since Version 1.0, in 1994. He is a co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto , perhaps the only book (and probably the only bestseller) that began as a rant on a Web site. He also writes Doc Searls Weblog , which usually ranks well up in Technorati's Top 100 blogs (out of about 2.7 million).
- Ralph Raico
Ralph Raico is professor of European history at the State University of New York College at Buffalo. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Chicago, Committee on Social Thought, where the head of his dissertation committee was F.A. Hayek. Among Dr. Raico's articles and essays are: "Rethinking Churchill" in The Costs of War, John V. Denson , ed.; "Austrian Economics and Classical Liberalism," in Advances in Austrian Economics , vol.
- Antara Dev Sen
Antara Dev Sen is a renowned Indian journalist, and the elder daughter of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen and his first wife, Nabanita Dev Sen. Anatara did her schooling in Calcutta and higher education in Delhi, India. She then joined the Hindustan Times. As a senior editor of the "Hindustan Times", she went to Oxford University on a fellowship from the Reuter Foundation. On her return to Delhi, she started "The Little Magazine" and was its founding editor.
- David Asman
David Asman joined FOX Business Network as an anchor in September 2007. He also serves as host of Forbes on Fox, a weekend half-hour program on FOX News Channel that offers an informative look at the week in business. Asman has been with FNC since 1997 when he joined the network as a weekday anchor for Fox News Live. In 2005, he was named head of FNC's documentary unit where he hosted a series of investigative specials, including "Global Warming: The Debate Continues."
- Adrian Zackheim
Adrian Zackheim is an American business book editor. Currently he is at Portfolio, and heads Sentinel HC a division of Penguin Books. At Portfolio, Zackheim has edited such titles as" Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable"; "Trading Up: The Power of Mass Luxury Brands; and First In, Last Out: Leadership Lessons from the New York Fire Department". Zackheim is also publisher of Sentinel, a conservative imprint within Penguin.
- Gary Stix
Gary Stix is a journalist and author. He is a Senior Editor at the <b>Scientific American<b/>.
- 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.
- 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.
- Evan Caminker
Evan H. Caminker (born June 26, 1961, Los Angeles, California) is Dean of the University of Michigan Law School, United States. He succeeded Jeffrey S. Lehman, who resigned to become president of Cornell University. Caminker was appointed dean just as the United States Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling upholding the constitutionality of the Law School's affirmative action admissions policies, …
- Stacy Schiff
Stacy Madeleine Schiff (born October 26, 1961) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author and guest columnist for [[The New York Times]]. Biography Schiff is a graduate of Phillips Academy preparatory school, and earned her B.A. degree from William ...
- Peter G. Traber
Peter G. Traber , M.D. President & CEO Baylor College of Medicine Peter G. Traber , M.D. is President and Chief Executive Officer of Baylor College of Medicine and Professor of Medicine, positions he has held since March 2003. Dr. Traber has had a long career in academic medicine involved in patient care, education, and research as well as leadership positions in the pharmaceutical industry.
- Andrew S. Rappaport
Andrew S. Rappaport or Andy Rappaport (born 1957) is an American Silicon Valley venture capitalist partner in August Capital an information technology venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. In the last three years he has become recognized as one of the largest American Democratic Party donors and philanthropist with his wife Deborah Rappaport. Andy Rappaport joined August Capital in 1996.
- Ruedi Aebersold
Dr. Aebersold completed his undergraduate studies in biology at the University of Basel, Switzerland in 1979 and received a Ph.D. in cell biology at the Biocenter of the University of Basel in 1984. Holding fellowships from the Swiss National Science Foundation and EMBO, he joined the California Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral fellow (1984-86) and remained at Caltech as a senior research fellow (1986-88).
- David Brancaccio
David Brancaccio , host of California Connected, is well known to radio audiences as the host and senior editor of Minnesota Public Radio's Marketplace, the daily magazine of business and economics that airs nationally on public radio stations. Brancaccio served as London bureau chief for the program before being promoted to his current position in September 1993.
- Sheldon Richman
Sheldon Richman is editor of The Freeman , published by The Foundation for Economic Education in Irvington, New York, and serves as senior fellow at The Future of Freedom Foundation. He is the author of FFFs award-winning book Separating School & State: How to Liberate Americas Families ; Your Money or Your Life: Why We Must Abolish the Income Tax ; and FFFs newest book Tethered Citizens: Time to Repeal the Welfare State.
- Dave Hughes
Dave is a Senior Editor focusing on avionics, air traffic control, aviation security, information technology and homeland security. He served in the U.S. Air Force Reserve from 1972 to 1993. As a USAF pilot he has 2,300 hours in heavy jets including the C-5 and C-141.
- Doug Most
Doug Most is the Sunday magazine editor for the Boston Globe. He was previously a general assignment news editor for The Globe. Prior to joining The Globe, Mr. Most was the senior editor for Boston Magazine. He also spent a decade as a reporter for The Bergen Record in northern New Jersey and has freelanced for The New York Times Magazine, New Jersey Monthly and various other publications.
- Kevin Poulsen
Kevin Poulsen oversees cybercrime, privacy, defense and political coverage at Wired.com, and he co-edits the Threat Level blog. He previously served as editor of the award-winning computer security news site SecurityFocus, acquired by Symantec in 2002, where his investigative reporting was frequently followed by the national press.
- Chester E. Finn Jr.
Chester Finn is an unpaid informal adviser and fellow at the Hudson Institute. "I don't describe myself as an adviser; I describe myself as an old friend. I talk to him [Lamar Alexander] from time to time," he said in an interview. Finn was assistant secretary of education in the 1980s. He is an advocate of abolishing the Department of Education and was part of the design team for the Edison Project, a pay-to-learn system of schools set up by Christopher Whittle .
- Mort Crim
Mort Crim is the creator and voice of the award-winning radio series "Second Thoughts," airing on more than 700 radio stations worldwide. The program's 90-second motivational essays reflect Mort's belief that the world needs a break from the violent and weird events exploited in much of the mainstream news media. He inspires with humor and personal anecdotes in "Second Thoughts," emphasizing his belief in the positive aspects of human nature.
- Paul Raeburn
Paul Raeburn is the author of the memoir Acquainted with the Night: A Parents Quest to Understand Depression and Bipolar Disorder in His Children (Broadway Books, 2004). From 1996-2003, he was the science editor and a senior writer at Business Week . Before that, he was the science editor and chief science correspondent at The Associated Press. He is a commentator for National Public Radios Morning Edition, and occasional guest host of NPRs Talk of the Nation: Science Friday.
- Dirk Standen
Mr. Standen had started at CondéNet in 2003 as Deputy Editor, overseeing day-to-day editorial operations on Epicurious.com and Concierge.com. Prior to that, Mr. Standen was Editor-in-Chief of iTurf.com and a Senior Editor at Microsoft's sidewalk.com. Mr. Standen's journalism has appeared in numerous publications, including GQ , Details , Tatler , Food & Wine , and the New York Observer .
- Prem Panicker
Prem Panicker is a well known Indian cricket journalist. He was one of a handful of journalists who helped found Rediff.com (Nasdaq: REDF). He was based in New York, as editor of India Abroad, the largest Indian-American newspaper, after that paper was bought by Rediff. Last heard from, he is based in Mumbai, at the head office of Rediff.com as an editor; his reports on the games of the 2007 Cricket World Cup is available here.
- Jim Cason
Jim is responsible for directing and overseeing the full range of FCNL’s communications needs, including publications, web site, other online communications, and press secretary functions. Jim comes to FCNL after more than two decades working for social change as a journalist, non-profit leader, and lobbyist. For eight years, Jim was the U.S. correspondent in Washington, DC for La Jornada, Mexico’s second largest daily circulation newspaper.
- Michael Hopkins
Michael Hopkins Senior Editor mhopkins@mediabiz.com Michael serves as senior editor within the BRIDGE Media Group . Previously, he was editor of SkyREPORT , which is focused on the various satellite businesses. Michael continues to write a column for the online newsletter. Currently, Michael oversees production and editorial for The BRIDGE weekly publication, the daily Morning BRIDGE and assists with the Evening BRIDGE .
- Ryan Fritz Holznagel
I won an Emmy Award in 1992 for television scriptwriting, but since 1995 I have written almost exclusively on the Web, working with facts rather than fiction. My specialty is making dry information fun in the service of education, marketing and other typical online aims. Clients have included Intuit, Wine.com, Universal Studios, Lycos, and Broderbund Software. Who2.com, the online biographical encyclopedia, is my own project. I'm also the winner of the 1995 Tournament of Champions on the . . .
- Will Raee
Will Raee is an independent filmmaker and seasoned show producer, who was president of Tupac Shakur's production company "Urban Warrior Films," and Rock Docs where he produced and wrote the critically acclaimed Marilyn Manson documentary, "Demystifying the Devil". In the past year, Will has finished producing Sci-Fi Channel's "Alien God's." In addition, Will has just finished producing 16 episodes of A&E Television's new series "Criss Angel MindFreak," and producing the motion picture...