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Something is wrong with American journalism. Long before “fake news” became the calling card of the Right, Americans had lost faith in their news media. But lately, the feeling that something is off has become impossible to ignore. That’s because the majority of our mainstream news is no longer just liberal; it’s woke. Today’s newsrooms are propagating radical ideas that were fringe as recently as a decade ago, including “antiracism,” intersectionality, open borders, and critical race theory. How did this come to be?
KEVIN SLACK is a professor of politics at Hillsdale College, where he teaches political philosophy and American political thought, including American progressivism, liberalism, and radicalism.
JENS KURT HEYCKE was educated in Economics and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago, the London School of Economics, and Princeton University.
BILL MEEHAN is editor of William F. Buckley Jr.: A Bibliography (ISI Books, 2002) and Conversations with William F. Buckley Jr. (University Press of Mississippi, 2009).
BRANDON J. WEICHERT is a geopolitical analyst and author of Winning Space: How America Remains a Superpower and The Shadow War: Iran’s Quest for Supremacy.
JOSEPH EPSTEIN is the author of thirty-one books, among them books on divorce, ambition, snobbery, friendship, envy, and gossip.
DAVID BERNHARDT is the only person to ever be confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as secretary, deputy secretary, and solicitor of the Department of the Interior in its 173+-year history.
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SCOTT W. ATLAS, MD is the Robert Wesson Senior Fellow in health care policy at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University and a founding fellow at Hillsdale College’s Academy for Science and Freedom.
EDWARD JAY EPSTEIN was born in 1935 in New York City. He received his BA at Cornell University and his PhD at Harvard University, and he taught political science at MIT and UCLA, where he was Regents’ Professor of Government.
HELEN E. KRIEBLE (1943-2021) was raised in Connecticut, educated at Harvard-Radcliffe and the University of Pennsylvania, was an assistant professor at Hartford College for Women, and a regent at the University of Hartford.
Mark Moyar holds the William P. Harris Chair in Military History at Hillsdale College. His past academic appointments include the Kim T. Adamson Chair of Insurgency and Terrorism at the U.S. Marine Corps University and fellowships at the Joint Special Operations University and Texas A&M University. During the Trump administration, he served in the U.S. Agency for International Development as the director of the Office of Civilian-Military Cooperation.
Patrick J. Garrity (1955-2021) was the founding editor of Classics of Strategy and Diplomacy.