Kayla Bartsch is a current William F. Buckley Jr. Fellow in Political Journalism at National Review. She graduated from Yale College in 2020 with distinction in philosophy and humanities. Prior to joining NR, she worked as a Program Assistant for Hudson Institute Political Studies, and as a Teaching Assistant for their Summer Fellowship, while pursuing an MA in Theology at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC. When away from her desk, Kayla helps lead a debating organization for young professionals in DC called the Cicero Society and sings with the Cathedral Choral Society at the Washington National Cathedral.
Caroline Downey is education reporter at National Review, visiting fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum, and editor of The Conservateur, a women’s fashion & lifestyle magazine.
Jim Geraghty is an NRI fellow and National Review’s senior political correspondent, where he writes the daily “Morning Jolt” newsletter, among other writing duties. He’s also a contributing columnist to The Washington Post. He’s the author of the novel The Weed Agency (Forum Books, 2014), a Washington Post bestseller, the nonfiction Heavy Lifting (Regnery Publishing, 2015) with Cam Edwards and Voting to Kill (Touchstone, November 2007), as well as the Dangerous Clique series of thriller novels. He is a regular guest on Fox News and MSNBC.
Kevin Hassett is the senior adviser to National Review Capital Matters and a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution. Hassett served as the 29th Chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers beginning in 2017 and rejoined the White House in 2020 as Senior Advisor to the President. Prior to his White House service, Hassett was the research director at the American Enterprise Institute for many years. He also served as a senior economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and as an associate professor of economics and finance at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business, as well as a visiting professor at New York University’s Law School. He has been an adviser for many presidential campaigns and has contributed regular columns to National Review for almost 20 years.
Rich Lowry brings his sharp analysis and well-formed opinions to the political discussion through his writing and commentary. Lowry became editor of National Review in 1997 when selected by Buckley to lead the magazine. Today, National Review remains a conservative guidepost, helping to bring to prominence rising conservative leaders and advance conservative policies. Lowry is a syndicated columnist and a political commentator. He also writes a weekly column for Politico. Known for his skillful debating style, Lowry is a frequent guest on NBC’s Meet the Press and the TODAY show. He is the author of The Case for Nationalism: How it Made Us Powerful, United and Free and Lincoln Unbound (Broadside Books, November 2019), which follows Abraham Lincoln’s climb to the presidency. Lowry’s book on Bill Clinton was a New York Times bestseller. He serves on the board of counselors at Arizona State University’s School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership.
Ramesh Ponnuru is the editor of National Review, a columnist for the Washington Post, and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Ponnuru grew up in Kansas City and graduated from Princeton University. He has previously been a columnist for Time and Bloomberg Opinion and a contributor to CBS News and CNN.
Noah Rothman is a senior writer at National Review. He is the author of The Rise of the New Puritans: Fighting Back against Progressives’ War on Fun and Unjust: Social Justice and the Unmaking of America.
Thérèse Shaheen was chairman of the American Institute in Taiwan, the State Department’s office of Taiwan policy, from 2002 to 2004. She is a businesswoman and chairs the USAsia Economic Foundation.
Amity Shlaes is the author of four New York Times bestsellers, The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, The Forgotten Man: Graphic, a full-length illustrated version of the same book drawn by Paul Rivoche, Coolidge, a full-length biography of the thirtieth president, which debuted at number three on the Times list, and The Greedy Hand: How Taxes Drive Americas Crazy. National Review called The Forgotten Man “the finest history of the Great Depression ever written.” The Economist wrote of Coolidge that the book “deserves to be widely read” and made it an editor’s choice for 2013. Miss Shlaes is under contract to write The Silent Majority, a third volume on the twentieth century. She is a fellow at National Review Institute and author of a regular column, “The Forgotten Book,” on NR Capital Matters.