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| Michael Mukasey |
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| Michael Mukasey served under President George W. Bush as the 81st Attorney General of the United States. Now a partner at the international law firm Debevoise & Plimpton, Judge Mukasey served for 18 years on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, six of those years as Chief Judge. He is the recipient of the prestigious Learned Hand Medal of the Federal Bar Council. |
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| Dick Morris |
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| Probably the most prominent American political consultant, Dick Morris is almost universally credited with piloting Bill Clinton to a stunning comeback re-election victory in 1996 after the president lost Congress to the Republicans two years before. Called "the most influential private citizen in America" by Time magazine, Morris helped steer Clinton to the center and away from the liberal policies he had pursued in his first two years in office. Morris is also credited with advising Clinton to sign the welfare reform bill of 1996 and getting him to back a balanced budget, both key centrist positions.
In November of 1999, Morris founded a Web site in the U.S. called Vote.com where people log on to vote on the major issues of the day. Their opinions are then e-mailed to their senators and representatives and to other significant decision makers. In the first 11 months of the site's operation, more than one million voters registered their e-mail addresses and zip codes with Vote.com and have cast a total of more than 15 million votes. Vote.com is now rated by Media Metrics and PC Data as one of the most trafficked Web sites in the world.
In recent years, Morris has turned to foreign campaigns and served as chief strategist for Mexico's reformer Vicente Fox in his upset victory in July 2000 over the PRI after the party had ruled the nation for 71 years. He also was the chief strategist for the winning campaign of Argentina's new president Fernando de la Rua in November 1999. He also worked for Jorge Battle in his victory for president of Uruguay that same year.
In the United States, Morris has become a familiar figure as a commentator for the Fox News Channel. He makes more than 400 appearances each year and is well known for hard-hitting, nonpartisan, objective commentary about the U.S. political scene. He writes a weekly column for the New York Post and the Hill Magazine in the U.S. and the National Post in Canada.
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| William McGurn |
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| William McGurn is a Vice President with Newscorp , where he writes speeches for CEO Rupert Murdoch. The Wall Street Journal's "Main Street" columnist was chief speechwriter for President George W. Bush , and previously had served as the chief editorial writer for the Journal, senior editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review, writer for The Wall Street Journal/Europe and The Asian Wall Street Journal, and Washington bureau chief of National Review. Mr. McGurn is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and Boston University, and is the author of Perfidious Albion. |
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| Daniel Hannan |
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| Daniel Hannan is a writer and journalist, blogging for the London Telegraph, and gained international fame earlier this year as a member of the European Parliament (the video of his denouncing Gordon Brown as "the devalued Prime Minister of a devalued government" created a sensation on the web). He represents his South East England constituency as a Conservative, and is considered a leading critic of the European Union's usurpation of national sovereignty. Mr. Hannan is the author of The Plan: Twelve Months to Renew Britain. |
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| Norman Podhoretz |
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| Norman Podhoretz was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1930. He served as editor-in-chief of Commentary magazine from 1960-1995 and its editor-at-large from 1996-2008. In 2004, in recognition of his editorial achievements, as well as of his own writings on politics, literature, and American culture, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor the US government can bestow on a civilian.
Currently an adjunct fellow of the Hudson Institute, Mr. Podhoretz received Bachelor's degrees from both Columbia University--where he was a Pulitzer Scholar--and the Jewish Theological Seminary. He later received another BA with first-class honors and then an MA from Cambridge University in England, where he was a Fulbright Scholar and a Kellett Fellow. He holds honorary doctorates from Hamilton College, Yeshiva University, Boston University, The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and Adelphi University, and a number of other awards.
From 1953-1955 he served in the US Army, much of the time in the Army Security Agency in West Germany, then still under Allied occupation.
A former Chairman of the New Directions Advisory Committee, a non-governmental group consulted by the United States Information Agency (USIA), he was also a co-founder both of the Committee on the Present Danger and the Committee for the Free World.
He is the author of twelve books, the two most recent of which are Why Are Jews Liberals? and World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism, as well as hundreds of articles for periodicals in America and other countries.
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| Midge Decter |
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| Midge Decter is an author and editor whose essays and reviews, mostly in the field of social criticism, have over the past six decades appeared in a number of periodicals and newspapers, including Harper's, The Atlantic, The New York Times, Newsday, USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, The American Spectator, First Things, The National Review, The New Republic, and The Weekly Standard. Over forty years she has been a regular and frequent contributor to Commentary.
She has published five books: The Liberated Woman and Other Americans, a collection of essays; an account of the founding of the Women's Liberation movement titled The New Chastity; the story of the radicalization of the "kids" of the 1960s titled Liberal Parents, Radical Children; a memoir titled An Old Wife's Tale: My Seven Decades in Love and War; and, in 2003, Rumsfeld: A Personal Portrait.
As an editor, she has served in a variety of capacities, beginning with the Hudson Institute and CBS Legacy Books. She has been the executive editor of Harper's, literary editor of the Saturday Review, a senior editor at Basic Books, and associate editor of First Things.
For ten years, from 1980 to 1990, she served as Executive Director of the Committee for the Free World, and from 1990 to 1995 she was a Distinguished Fellow of the Institute on Religion and Public Life. She is now a free-lance author.
She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Heritage Foundation, the board of the Center for Security Policy, the board of the Institute on Religion and Public Life, and is chairman of the Clare Booth Luce Fund.
In 2003 she was awarded a National Humanities Medal, and in 2008 she was given the Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom.
She lectures widely on a variety of subjects from foreign policy to the family.
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| Bing West |
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| Bing West was Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs under President Ronald Reagan. A Marine infantry veteran of Vietnam, West is a writer who has covered the Iraq War as a correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, and has frequently contributed on the subject for National Review. He is the author of The Village (used by war colleges as a primer in counterinsurgency), No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah, and (with MajGen Ray Smith) The March Up: Taking Baghdad with the United States Marines. Mr. West's articles appear in The New York Times, The Wall St. Journal, and other major newspapers, and he appears on National Public Radio and The Newshour with Jim Lehrer. |
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| Kathryn Lopez |
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| Kathryn Jean Lopez is the editor of National Review Online and the author of a nationally syndicated column of conservative political and social commentary for Newspaper Enterprise Association. She is a frequent guest on radio and television programs, including on CNN, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, NPR, BBC and C-SPAN. A graduate of the Catholic University of America, Miss Lopez is a weekly guest on the nationally syndicated "Hugh Hewitt Show" and a regular commentator and correspondent for Vatican Radio |
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| Kevin Williamson |
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| Kevin Williamson is deputy managing editor at National Review. He writes about economics, financial policy, culture, and whatever else Rich Lowry tells him to write about.
Before joining National Review, Kevin was the director of the journalism and communications programs at the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University. He spent most of his career in the newspaper business, beginning at the Bombay-based Indian Express and working at publications in Texas, Pennsylvania, and Colorado. In 2004 he was the founding editor of The Evening Bulletin, a daily newspaper serving Philadelphia and its suburbs. His work has appeared in the Times of India, Our Sunday Visitor, and The New Criterion, where Kevin writes regularly about theater. He also serves as an adjunct professor at The King's College in New York City.
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| Kate O' Beirne |
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Kate O'Beirne is National Review's Washington Editor. She writes principally about Congress, politics, and domestic policy. She was a regular on CNN's Capital Gang for many years.
Before joining National Review in 1995, O'Beirne was vice president of government relations at the Heritage Foundation, responsible for keeping Washington policymakers abreast of Heritage proposals and research findings in all areas of the Foundation's study, while serving as a contributing editor for National Review.
O'Beirne previously served as Heritage's deputy director of domestic-policy studies, where she supervised studies in the area of health care, welfare, education, and housing. From 1986 to 1988, she was deputy assistant secretary for legislation at the Department of Health and Human Services.
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