National Review editor in chief Rich Lowry will lead a discussion with NRI fellows Andrew C. McCarthy, Jay Nordlinger, Richard Brookhiser, and Kathryn Jean Lopez. Our speakers will reflect on their memories and experiences living in the New York area at the time of the attacks, and discuss lessons learned two decades later.
About the Speakers:
Richard Brookhiser is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, a senior editor of National Review, and a columnist for American History. He is the author of, most recently, Give Me Liberty: A History of America’s Exceptional Idea (Basic Books, 2019), and host of “John Marshall: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court,” a film by Leo Eaton (summer 2020). His other books include John Marshall: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court (Basic Books, 2018), of Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln (Basic Books, 2014), and of seven other books on revolutionary America: Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington (Free Press, 1997); Rules of Civility: The 110 Precepts That Guided Our First President in War and Peace (University of Virginia Press, 2003); Alexander Hamilton, American (Simon & Schuster, 2000); America’s First Dynasty: The Adamses 1735-1918 (Free Press, 2002); Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution (Free Press, 2004); What Would the Founders Do? Our Questions, Their Answers (Basic Books, 2007); and George Washington on Leadership (Basic Books, 2008). He is author and host of two films for PBS by Michael Pack: Rediscovering George Washington (2002) and Rediscovering Alexander Hamilton (2011). He was the historian curator of “Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America,” a 2004 exhibition at the New-York Historical Society. In 2008 he was awarded the National Humanities Medal.
Kathryn Jean Lopez is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, where she directs the Center for Religion, Culture, and Civil Society. She is also editor-at-large of National Review magazine (where she has been on the editorial staff, including as editor of NationalReview.com, since 1997). She is published widely in Catholic and secular publications and is also a nationally syndicated columnist with Andrews McMeel Universal. Lopez is author of A Year with the Mystics: Visionary Wisdom for Daily Living (Saint Benedict Press, 2019). She speaks frequently on faith in public life, virtue, and prayer.
Rich Lowry is the editor of National Review. He writes for Politico, and often appears on such public-affairs programs as Meet the Press. He is a regular panelist on the KCRW program Left, Right & Center. He is the author of Lincoln Unbound, The Case for Nationalism: How It Made Us Powerful, United, and Free, and Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years — a New York Times bestseller. Lowry began his career as a research assistant for Charles Krauthammer. In 1997 he was selected by William F. Buckley to lead National Review.
Andrew C. McCarthy is a bestselling author, a contributing editor at National Review, a Fox News contributor, and a senior fellow at National Review Institute. A former Chief Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York, he led the terrorism prosecution against the “Blind Sheikh” (Omar Abdel Rahman) and eleven other jihadists for conducting a war of urban terrorism against the United States that included the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and a plot to bomb New York City landmarks. He also contributed to the prosecutions of terrorists who bombed U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Andy is the co-host, along with NR editor in chief Rich Lowry, of “The McCarthy Report”, a podcast produced by National Review.
Jay Nordlinger is a senior editor of National Review and a fellow at National Review Institute. He writes about a variety of subjects, including politics, foreign affairs, and the arts. He is the music critic of The New Criterion. Since 2002, he has hosted a series of public interviews at the Salzburg Festival. He writes a column called “Impromptus” for NationalReview.com and is the host of two podcasts: “Q&A” and “Music for a While.” In 2011, he filmed “The Human Parade, with Jay Nordlinger,” a TV series bringing hour-long interviews with various personalities. He is the author of two books: Peace, They Say: A History of the Nobel Peace Prize (Encounter Books, March 2012) and Children of Monsters: An Inquiry into the Sons and Daughters of Dictators (Encounter Books, September 2015). His journalism has been collected in two books: Here, There & Everywhere (National Review Books, January 2007) and Digging In (National Review Books, December 2016). A native Michigander, Nordlinger lives in New York.