Authors

Philip Hamburger is the Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. He writes on constitutional law, including religious liberty, freedom of speech and the press, administrative power, and unconstitutional conditions.

Philip Terzian has been a political and cultural journalist for nearly forty years. He has written and edited for the New Republic, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, The New Criterion and the Times Literary Supplement. Since 2005, he has been Literary Editor of The Weekly Standard. He lives in Washington, D.C.

RAINER ZITELMANN is the author of How Nations Escape Poverty.

Randy Barnett is the Patrick Hotung Professor of Constitutional Law at the Georgetown University Law Center where he directs the Georgetown Center for the Constitution.

Raymond J. Learsy, a graduate of the Wharton School of Business, launched into the fast paced risk filled world of physical commodities trading beginning some five decades ago.

Rich Trzupek is a chemist and principal consultant at environmental engineering and consulting firm Mostardi Platt Environmental.

Richard A. Epstein is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at New York University, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law Emeritus and senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School. His next book, Design for Liberty: Private Property, Public Administration, and the Rule of Law, was published in October 2011 by Harvard University Press.

Richard B. McKenzie is the Walter B. Gerken Professor Emeritus in the Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine.  While he is an economist by profession who has written over thirty books mainly on economic policy, he has published extensively on “orphanages” of the past, including Home Away from Home: The Forgotten History of Orphanages.

Richard Korman’s career has included podcasts, ghostwriting for Dr. Ruth Westheimer and a CD called Write to Influence, about improving everything from emails to essays. In 2007 he won another American Business Media Jesse H. Neal award for ENR.com, where he is senior business editor and writes the blog/online column Kormantary.

Rick Richman graduated with honors from Harvard College and NYU Law School. He has written for Commentary, The Jewish Press, Mosaic Magazine, The New York Sun, PJ Media, The Tower Magazine, and his own blog, Jewish Current Issues, created in 2003.

Rob Stearns is an entrepreneur and President of Progo Communications. He frequently provides commentary for news, financial, and sports broadcasts around the country.

Robert C. O’Brien was a senior foreign policy advisor to Governor Scott Walker’s 2016 presidential campaign. Robert served as a senior advisor to Governor Mitt Romney on both of his presidential campaigns.

Robert Curry is the author of Common Sense Nation: Unlocking the Forgotten Power of the American Idea (Encounter Books). He serves on the Board of Directors of the Claremont Institute. His articles and reviews have appeared in American Greatness, the American Thinker, the Claremont Review of Books, the Federalist, and the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.

Robert H. Bork, who died December 19, 2012, was the author of two New York Times best sellers, Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline and The Tempting of America: The Political Seduction of the Law.

Robert J. Stove lives in Melbourne, Australia. His articles-mostly on European political and cultural history-have appeared in National Review, The New Criterion, and The American Spectator. His first book was Prince of Music (1990), a study of the sixteenth-century composer Palestrina.