CHARLES C. W. COOKE is a senior editor at National Review and the former editor of National Review Online. He is a graduate of the University of Oxford, at which he studied modern history and politics. His work has focused especially on Anglo-American history, British liberty, free speech, the Second Amendment, and American exceptionalism. He has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times.

LINDSAY CRAIG is the president of National Review Institute. Under Lindsay’s leadership, the Institute has established sound fiscal footing, even as NRI has become the parent company for NR, Inc., significantly expanded and enhanced its existing programs while establishing new ones, and broadened its partnerships with policy organizations and policymakers across the country.

ALLEN GUELZO is a New York Times bestselling author, American historian, and commentator on public issues. He is director of the James Madison Program Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship and senior research scholar in the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University. Previously, he was the director of Civil War Era Studies and the Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era at Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

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 William F. Buckley Jr. to lead the magazine. Lowry is a syndicated columnist and a political commentator. He also writes a weekly column for Politico. Lowry is a frequent guest on NBC’s Meet the Press and the TODAY show.

HEATHER MAC DONALD is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and a New York Times bestselling author. Mac Donald’s work at City Journal has covered a range of topics, including higher education, immigration, policing, homelessness and homeless advocacy, criminal-justice reform, and race relations. Her writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, and The New Criterion.

REV. ROBERT A. SIRICO is president emeritus and the co-founder of the Acton Institute. In that capacity, he lectures at colleges, universities, and business organizations throughout the U.S. and abroad. His writings on religious, political, economic, and social matters are published in a variety of journals, including: the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, the London Financial Times, the Washington Times, the Detroit News, and National Review. Fr. Sirico is often called upon by members of the broadcast media for statements regarding economics, civil rights, and issues of religious concern, and has provided commentary for CNN, ABC, the BBC, NPR, and CBS’ 60 Minutes, among others.

PETER J. TRAVERS is the chairman of the Board of Trustees of National Review Institute and the managing member of Chase Field LLC, a diversified investment and financial business in Princeton, New Jersey. Prior to founding the firm in 1992, Mr. Travers worked as an investment banker at Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Paine Webber Capital Markets, and practiced securities law at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York.