Authors

Hilton Kramer (1928-2012) was the founding editor of The New Criterion, which he started with the late Samuel Lipman in 1982. From 1987 until 2006, he was also the art critic for the weekly New York Observer, and for many years wrote the “Critic’s Notebook” column in Art & Antiques magazine.

Howard Husock is a Senior Fellow in Domestic Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute and a Contributing Editor of City Journal.

Humberto Fontova was born in Havana Cuba in 1954 and escaped Castro’s revolution with his family in 1961. They were accepted in the U.S. as political refugees while his father remained jailed in Cuba as a political prisoner.

Ibn Warraq is an independent scholar and former visiting fellow at the Center for Law and Counterterrorism, a project of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

Ilan Berman is vice president of the American Foreign Policy Council, with expertise on regional security in the Middle East, Central Asia, and the Russian Federation. He has consulted for the Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Department of Defense, and has assisted various governmental agencies and congressional offices.

Ilya I. Feoktistov is the Executive Director of Americans for Peace and Tolerance, a Boston-based national security non-profit organization that investigates and confronts threats to civil society in America.

Ishmael Jones was born in the United States and raised in the Middle East, East Asia, and East Africa. In the late 1980s he joined the Central Intelligence Agency, where he served as a deep-cover officer for eighteen years, focusing on human sources with access to intelligence on weapons of mass destruction and terrorism.

J. Bowyer Bell (1931 – 2003) was an American historian, artist and art critic. He was best known as a terrorism expert.

J. Harvie Wilkinson III is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Judge Wilkinson graduated from Yale University in 1967 and received his law degree from the University of Virginia in 1972. In 1982, he became Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. President Reagan appointed him to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in August of 1984, and he was the Fourth Circuit’s chief judge from 1996-2003.

J. Martin Rochester is the Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri, St. Louis.

James Bowman has written for the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, The New Criterion and other publications. He was the American editor of the Times Literary Supplement of London and is currently a resident scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Institute.

James Burnham has been a noted author, lecturer, editor, and commentator on current affairs. In 1983, Burnham was presented with the Ingersoll Foundation’s award for his contributions to the conservative movement, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

James C. Bennett is a writer and entrepreneur. He was co-founder of two private space transportation companies and other technology ventures. He has written extensively on technology, culture, and society.

James Franklin is honorary professor at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, where he taught mathematics for nearly forty years and set up the world’s first course on professional issues and ethics in mathematics.

James L. Buckley was born in New York City in 1923, grew up in rural Connecticut, and received his B.A. degree from Yale. Following service as a naval officer in World War II, he returned to New Haven to secure his law degree.