Authors

James Piereson is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute where he writes about politics, economics, higher education, and philanthropy.

James R. Copland is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, where he has directed legal-policy research since 2003.

James R. Otteson is Executive Director of the BB&T Center for the Study of Capitalism, and the Thomas W. Smith Presidential Chair in Business Ethics, at Wake Forest University. He received his BA from the University of Notre Dame and his PhD from the University of Chicago. He specializes in political economy, business ethics, the history of economic thought, and political philosophy.

James S. Robbins is Deputy Editor of Rare and a member of USA Today’s board of contributors. He is the author of This Time We Win: Rethinking the Tet Offensive and Last in Their Class: Custer, Pickett and the Goats of West Point.

Jared Meyer is a senior research fellow at the Foundation for Government Accountability. Meyer, a member of Forbes’s 30 under 30 list, has testified before various congressional committees on regulatory reform. In addition to publishing hundreds of opinion articles, Meyer has also discussed his research on many radio and television shows, including the BBC, FOX, and NPR.

Jason L. Riley is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a columnist for the Wall Street Journal. He lives in suburban New York City with his wife and three children.

JASON M. MORGAN is associate professor at Reitaku University in Kashiwa, Japan.

JASON SNEAD is the Executive Director of the Honest Elections Project.

Jay Cost has been a top political analyst for a decade. He is the author of A Republic No More: Big Government and the Rise of American Political Corruption and Spoiled Rotten. He is currently a writer for the Weekly Standard.

Jay Nordlinger is a senior editor of National Review. He writes about a variety of subjects, including politics, foreign affairs, and culture. He is the music critic of The New Criterion. His previous book is Peace, They Say, a history of the Nobel Peace Prize. The author lives in New York.

Jay P. Greene is Distinguished Professor, holds the 21st Century Endowed Chair in Education Reform, and is Head of the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas.

Jean-François Revel (1924-2006) was a French journalist, author, philosopher and a member of the Académie française from June 1998 onwards. He was perhaps best known for Without Marx or Jesus, How Democracies Perish, and The Totalitarian Temptation. Until his death in April 2006, he lived in Paris.

Jed Babbin is a former Air Force officer who served as a deputy undersecretary of defense in the George H. W. Bush administration. He is a senior fellow of the London Center for Policy Research.

Jeffrey Bell played an active role in federal tax budget reform as an aid to Ronald Reagan in the 1970s and 1980s. He presently serves on the Board of Directors of the American Conservative Union and of the Campaign Finance Institute at George Washington University.

Jeffrey E. Paul is a research professor in the Social Philosophy Center of the John Chambers College of Business and Economics at West Virginia University.