Authors

Linda Bridges was hired by William F. Buckley Jr. for the editorial department of National Review in 1969, and served as his literary assistant for the last five years of his life.

LOGAN BEIRNE is an Olin Scholar at Yale Law School. Prior to this appointment, Logan practiced as an attorney with the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell in New York City and was a Fulbright Scholar at Queen’s University. He received his JD from Yale Law School, where he was a Coker Fellow and was awarded the Edgar M. Cullen Prize for his constitutional scholarship.

Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest-ranking intelligence official ever to defect from the Soviet Bloc, served as acting chief of communist Romania’s espionage service and top adviser to President Nicolae Ceausescu.

Marcello Pera teaches political philosophy at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome. He has been a professor of the philosophy of science at the universities of Catania and Pisa, and a visiting fellow in many universities and institutes in the United States, England, and Israel. Mr. Pera served as president of the Italian Senate from 2001 to 2006. The author of several publications on the history and philosophy of science, he co-authored a book with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) titled Without Roots: The West, Relativism, Christianity, Islam (2005).

Mark Bauerlein lives in Atlanta and teaches at Emory University.

Mark Gauvreau Judge has written for the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Weekly Standard and other publications. He is the author of If It Ain’t Got that Swing: The Rebirth of Grown-Up Culture.

Mark Krikorian is executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies and a contributor at National Review Online.

Mark P. Mills is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a faculty fellow with the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University, and a strategic partner in a tech venture fund.

Born in San Francisco, Mark Stricherz earned a B.A. in political science from Santa Clara University and an M.A. in social sciences from the University of Chicago. After working in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps to redevelop an inner-city neighborhood in Baton Rouge, he became a newspaper reporter; his articles have appeared in many national publications, including the Washington Post, The Weekly Standard, the New Republic, and Christianity Today. He lives in Washington with his wife and daughter.

Marshall L. Michel III flew 321 combat missions in F-4s and RF-4s from 1970-1973 and is the author of Clashes: Air Combat over North Vietnam, 1965-1972.

 Matthew Hennessey is deputy editorial features editor at the Wall Street Journal.

Matthew Spalding is the Kirby Professor in Constitutional Government and the Dean of the Van Andel Graduate School of Government at Hillsdale College’s Washington, D.C., campus.

Meghan Clyne is the managing editor of National Affairs. She has worked as a special assistant and speechwriter to President George W. Bush, speechwriter to First Lady Laura Bush, a reporter in New York and Washington for the New York Sun, and an associate editor at National Review. Her writings have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, the Weekly Standard, the Guardian, and elsewhere. She holds a BA from Yale University.

Melanie Kirkpatrick is a journalist, writer, and senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. She was deputy editor of the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, where she was a longtime member of the editorial board and op-ed editor.

Melanie Phillips is a British journalist, broadcaster and author. Her weekly column, which currently appears in The Times, has been published over the years in the Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times and Daily Mail.