- Roger L. Simon
Roger Lichtenberg Simon is a mystery author, blogger and screenwriter living in California. Simon was nominated for an Academy Award for co-writing the screenplay of the 1989 film "Enemies, a Love Story". His screen adaptation of "The Big Fix" starred Oscar-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss, who portrayed hard-boiled private detective Moses Wine. Wine is cynical, hard-edged and also a former 1960s radical. - Jonah Goldberg
Jonah Jacob Goldberg (born March 21, 1969), is an American conservative commentator. Goldberg is known for his contributions on politics and culture to "National Review Online", where he is the editor-at-large. He also frequently appears on television, on such shows as "Good Morning America", "Crossfire", "Nightline", "Hardball with Chris Matthews", "Larry King Live" and "Your World with Neil Cavuto". - La Shawn Barber
La Shawn Barber is a black conservative columnist and blogger who lives in the Washington D.C. area. Barber is a native of South Carolina. An alcoholic in her younger years, Barber took a vow of sobriety and abstinence shortly before her thirtieth birthday. She later moved to Washington, D.C. to serve as a legislative correspondent for a Democratic senator. She eventually converted to Christianity, became a political conservative, and pursued writing. - Rich Lowry
Lowry is considered the gatekeeper of the mainstream conservative moment in our country as the editor of National Review and as a political analyst for Fox News. Intellectual, yet down to earth, conservative and fair-minded, he examines the issues of today with a challenging and engaging perspective. - Daniel Pipes
Daniel Pipes (born September 9, 1949) is an American historian and counter-terrori sm analyst who specializes in the Middle East. He has written or co-written 18 books, maintains a blog, and lectures around the world presenting his analysis of world trends. His work has attracted both admiration and criticism as a result of his view that Islamism is incompatible with democracy, freedom, multiculturalis m, and human rights. - Pat Buchanan
Patrick Joseph Buchanan (born November 2, 1938) is an American politician, author, syndicated columnist, and broadcaster. He ran in the 2000 presidential election on the Reform Party ticket. He also sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1992 and 1996. Buchanan was a senior advisor to three American presidents, Nixon, Ford and Reagan, and was an original host on CNN's "Crossfire". - Paul Mirengoff
Paul Mirengoff (born April 17, 1949) is a blogger at the Power Line weblog, and an attorney. Mirengoff graduated from Dartmouth College in 1971, and from Stanford Law School in 1974. He is currently practising law in Washington D.C. For several years, he worked for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. He started writing articles for publications including the "Washington Post", the "Weekly Standard" and "Front Page". - Kathryn Jean Lopez
Kathryn Jean Lopez, (born March 22, probably 1976), a native of Manhattan, is an American conservative columnist, who is nationally syndicated by the United Feature Syndicate/Newspaper Enterprise Association. She is also the editor of National Review Online. Her nickname on National Review Online's group blog "The Corner", is "K-Lo", a wordplay based on "J-Lo", the popular nickname for Jennifer Lopez. Lopez grew up in the Chelsea section of lower Manhattan, … - Steve Sailer
Steven Ernest Sailer (born December 20, 1958) is an American journalist and movie critic for "The American Conservative", ex-correspondent for UPI, and VDARE.com columnist. He writes about race relations, gender issues, politics, immigration, IQ, genetics, movies, and sports. He is perhaps best known online as a blogger. Sailer grew up in Los Angeles and attended UCLA and Rice University. - Ramesh Ponnuru
Ramesh Ponnuru (born August 16, 1974) is a Washington, D.C.-based Indian American columnist and a senior editor for "National Review" magazine. He has also written for several other newspapers and publications, including "The Weekly Standard", "Policy Review", "The New Republic" and "First Things". Ponnuru was raised in Prairie Village, Kansas. - Jim Geraghty
Jim Geraghty is a regular contributor to "National Review Online" and "National Review". In addition to writing columns for "National Review", Geraghty also has a weblog on the site named TKS and is a former reporter for States News Service. During the 2004 US Presidential election, Geraghty was often critical of Democratic Party presidential candidate John Kerry. At the time his weblog used the name "The Kerry Spot". - Michael Ledeen
Michael Ledeen (born August 1, 1941) is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a contributing editor to "National Review". Ledeen was a founding member of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs and he served on the JINSA Board of Advisors. In 2003, the "Washington Post" alleged that he was consulted by Karl Rove, George W. Bush's closest advisor, as his main international affairs adviser. - Mona Charen
Mona Charen is a syndicated columnist and political analyst living in the Washington, D.C., area. She received her undergraduate degree at Barnard College, Columbia University, with honors. Ms. Charen also holds a degree in law from George Washington University. Ms. Charen began her career at National Review magazine, where she served as editorial assistant. - Brent Bozell
BRENT BOZELL, President of the Media Research Center: Well, you know, I'm institutionally sympathetic to the idea that a spouse should be off-limits if the spouses want to be off-limits, if the spouse isn't participating in the political process. In this case, you've got a spouse who is well-informed, well-educated, well-spoken and outspoken on the campaign trail campaigning on behalf of her husband. So absolutely she's fair game. Of course she is. - John J. Miller
John J. Miller (b. 1970) is the national political reporter for "National Review" and contributor to its Web component, National Review Online. A former contributing editor to "Reason", Miller is also the former vice president of the Center for Equal Opportunity and the recipient of a Bradley fellowship from the Heritage Foundation. Born in Detroit, Miller was raised in both Michigan and Florida. He was educated at the University of Michigan, … - Rod Dreher
Rod Dreher (b. February 14, 1967), originally from St. Francisville, Louisiana, is a Dallas-based writer and editor. He is an assistant editorial page editor (and occasional columnist) for "The Dallas Morning News" and a contributor to "The American Conservative" and "National Review". Previously, he served as a columnist for "The New York Post". He also runs a blog called "Crunchy Con" at beliefnet.com. - Ben Domenech
Originally from Mississippi, Ben Domenech began his career as a political journalist covering Capitol Hill. In 2002, he was sworn in as the youngest Schedule C political appointee in the Bush Administration, where he served for a year before spending two as the chief speechwriter for a U.S. Senator. Ben has worked as a book editor, ghostwriter, and consultant (though not necessarily in that order). He is the editor in chief of The Critical , a quarterly journal. - 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, … - Kate O'Beirne
Kate O'Beirne is the Washington editor of "National Review". Her column, "Bread and Circuses," covers Congress, politics, and U.S. domestic policy. O’Beirne was a regular contributor on CNN's Saturday night political roundtable program, "The Capital Gang", along with Al Hunt, Mark Shields, Robert Novak, and Margaret Carlson. O'Beirne and Novak typically argued the conservative viewpoint, while Hunt, Shields, and Carlson provided the liberal viewpoint. - Deroy Murdock
Deroy Murdock is a columnist with Scripps Howard News Service and a media fellow with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford ... - Jay Nordlinger
Jay Nordlinger is a U.S conservative journalist. He is the managing editor of National Review and also writes an irregular column for the magazine's website. He is frequently critical of the People's Republic of China’s Communist government and Fidel Castro's Cuba. In the 2000 presidential election, Nordlinger worked for George W. Bush as a speech-writer. Nordlinger is also a music critic, writing about classical music for The New Criterion, the New York Sun, … - Frank Gaffney
Despite his often extremist views, Gaffney is frequently cited in the press as an "expert" on U.S. foreign policy, appearing regularly on the BBC and other radio and TV broadcasts. He is also a prolific writer, having published in most major media outlets and opinion journals, including the Wall Street Journal , USA Today , The New Republic , Washington Post , New York Times , Christian Science Monitor , Los Angeles Times , National Review , Newsday , and Commentary magazine. - 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. - Doug Bandow
Douglas (Doug) Bandow is a former columnist with Copley News Service and senior fellow at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank. He resigned in 2005 due a scandal involving payments for columns from lobbyist Jack Abramoff and wrote about it in the Los Angeles Times. He served as a Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan and as a Senior Policy Analyst in the 1980 Reagan for President campaign. He is also a columnist for Antiwar.com. - Jed Babbin
Jed Babbin was a deputy undersecretary of defense during the first Bush administration in the United States, and the author of the political book "Inside the Asylum" as well as "Showdown" and "In The Words Of Our Enemies." He is a conservative commentator, a contributing editor to "The American Spectator", and a contributor to "National Review Online". Mr. Babbin is also a frequent guest host on Talk Radio WMET in Washington, … - Stephen Spruiell
Stephen Hill Spruiell (born November 20, 1979) is a conservative writer and columnist for the "National Review". - Michael Novak
Michael Novak (born September 9 1933) is an American Roman Catholic philosopher and diplomat. The author of some 25 books on the philosophy and theology of culture, Novak is most widely known for his book "The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism" (1982), which has also appeared in numerous translations. In 1994 he was awarded the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, a million-dollar purse awarded at Buckingham Palace. - Debra Saunders
Debra J. Saunders is a conservative columnist for the "San Francisco Chronicle". Syndicated by Creators Syndicate, her thrice weekly column is also carried by townhall.com. Between 1987 and 1992, Saunders was a columnist and editorial writer for the "Los Angeles Daily News". She has previously worked for conservative interest groups and for a Republican leader of the California State Assembly. - Richard Miniter
Richard Miniter (born 1967) is the author of two New York Times best selling books, "Losing bin Laden" and "Shadow War" and is an internationally recognized expert on terrorism. He is also a fellow at the Hudson Institute, Washington Editor of PajamasMedia.com and a former editorial page writer for "The Wall Street Journal Europe". He has been published in "The New York Times", "The Washington Post", … - John O'Sullivan
John O'Sullivan (born April 25, 1942) is a British conservative political commentator and journalist. He received his higher education at the University of London, and stood unsuccessfully as Conservative candidate in the 1970 British general election. He is Editor-in-Chief of the international affairs magazine, "The National Interest", Editor-at-Large of the magazine the "National Review", and a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute. - Alan Bock
Alan Bock is an American libertarian author. He is a senior editorial writer and former editor page editor for the "Orange County Register" He also writes regular columns for WorldNetDaily and Antiwar.com and is a contributing editor at "Liberty" magazine. Bock received a degree in political science and journalism from the University of California, Los Angeles, majoring. He is the author of four books: * "Ecology Action Guide", 1970. - Stephen Moore
Stephen Moore (born February 16, 1960 in Chicago, Illinois) is an economist and policy analyst who founded and served as president of the Club for Growth from 1999 to 2004. He is currently a member of the "Wall Street Journal" editorial board and frequently opines on the pages of their Op-Ed section. He is also a contributing editor for "National Review". He possesses a B.A. from the University of Illinois and an M.A. from George Mason University in economics. - Andrew McCarthy
Andrew McCarthy is a conservative journalist who also served as a lawyer for Rudy Giuliani. McCarthy writes for "National Review" and "Commentary". He has advocated of the legal use of torture in some situations to prosecute the war on terror. - Roger Kimball
Roger Kimball (1953-) is a conservative U.S. art critic and social commentator. He is noteworthy as the author of "Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Higher Education". Additionally, he is co-editor and co-publisher of The New Criterion magazine and the publisher of Encounter Books. Kimball lectures widely and is a frequent contributor to many newspapers and journals, … - Michael Rubin
Michael Rubin (born July 13, 1971) is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and editor of the "Middle East Quarterly" (a publication of the Middle East Forum). A native of Philadelphia, Rubin earned a Ph.D. in history from Yale University in 1999. His dissertation, "The Making of Modern Iran, 1858-1909: Communications, Telegraph and Society" won Yale's John Addison Porter Prize. - Charles Murray
Charles Alan Murray (born 1943) is a controversial libertarian American race researcher. He is employed as a conservative political policy writer at the American Enterprise Institute. In the controversial book, "The Bell Curve", co-authored with the late Richard Herrnstein, they claim that affirmative action is a waste of resources because environmental interventions cannot overcome what they claim is the markedly inferior intellect of African Americans. - Walter E. Williams
Born in Philadelphia in 1936, Walter E. Williams holds a bachelor's degree in economics from California State University (1965) and a master's degree (1967) and doctorate (1972) in economics from the University of California at Los Angeles. In 1980, he joined the faculty of George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., and is currently the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics. - Terry Teachout
Terry Teachout (born 1956, Cape Girardeau, Missouri) is a critic, biographer and blogger. He is the drama critic of "The Wall Street Journal", the music critic of "Commentary", and the author of "Sightings," a column about the arts in America that appears biweekly in the Saturday "Wall Street Journal". He blogs at About Last Night along with Chicago-based critic Laura Demanski (who writes under the name "Our Girl in Chicago"), … - Robert A George
Robert A George is an editorial writer for the "New York Post" and a conservative blogger and pundit. He was born in Trinidad and lived in the United Kingdom before moving to the United States. A graduate of St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, George worked for the Republican National Committee and, following the 1994 midterm elections, Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich. In addition to his position with the "New York Post", … - Andrew Coyne
Andrew Coyne is a Canadian journalist and columnist with the "National Post". He studied at the University of Toronto's University of Trinity College, receiving a BA in Economics and History, and he received his Master of Science degree in Economics from the London School of Economics. After a stint as a columnist for the "Financial Post" from 1985 to 1991, Coyne joined the editorial board of "The Globe and Mail".
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