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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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| 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 is editor-at-large of Commentary magazine, where he served as editor-in-chief from 1960-1995. He is the author of 10 books, including The Norman Podhoretz Reader: A Selection of his Writings from the 1950's through the 1990's; The Prophets: Who They Were, What They Are; My Love Affair with America; Ex-Friends; The Bloody Crossroads: Where Literature and Politics Meet; Making It; Why We Were in Vietnam; The Present Danger; Breaking Ranks: A Political Memoir; and Doings and Undoings: The Fifties and After in American Writing.
Podhoretz has written hundreds of articles for most major American periodicals and lectured at many universities and before many civic and religious groups on foreign policy, American culture, and Jewish affairs. He appears frequently on radio and television.
He was a Pulitzer Scholar at Columbia University, earning his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1950. Podhoretz also holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Cambridge University, England, where he was a Fulbright Scholar and a Kellett Fellow. In addition, he has a Bachelor's degree in Hebrew Literature from the Jewish Theological Seminary.
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| Midge Decter |
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| Midge Rosenthal attended the University of Minnesota, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and New York University, but never graduated from college. Her first job was secretary to the editor of Commentary, the intellectual magazine published by the American Jewish Committee. She later worked as an assistant editor at Midstream magazine, managing editor at Commentary, editor at Harper's Magazine, and was an editor at Legacy Books and at Basic Books. She also served as executive director of the Committee for a Free World, an anticommunist organization disbanded after the collapse of the Berlin Wall. She is the author of several books, The Liberated Woman & Other Americans (1970); The New Chastity and Other Arguments Against Women's Liberation (1972); Liberal Parents, Radical Children (1975), and Rumsfeld: A Personal Portrait (2003). She is on the board of directors of the Heritage Foundation and a senior fellow at the Institute of Religion and Public Life. Her second husband, Norman Podhoretz, is editor of Commentary. Decter has four children.
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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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| Bernard Lewis |
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Bernard Lewis (born in London, England) is the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. He specializes in the history of Islam and the interaction between Islam and the West and is especially famous for his works on the history of the Ottoman Empire.
Lewis is a widely-read expert on the Middle East. His advice is frequently sought by Republican policymakers, including the Bush administration concerning the war in Iraq, for instance. In the Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing Martin Kramer, whose Ph.D. thesis was directed by Lewis, considered that, over a 60-year career, he has emerged as "the most influential postwar historian of Islam and the Middle East."
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