Dr. Leo Ribuffo is the Society of the Cincinnati George Washington Distinguished Professor of History at George Washington University. He specializes in 20th century US history and American intellectual history. He has taught in China and lectured in Japan, Mexico, Germany, India, Nigeria, and the Republic of Korea. Dr. Ribuffo holds a Ph.D. from Yale University.

David Shribman is the Washington Bureau Chief for The Boston Globe. Mr. Shribman joined The Boston Globe after serving as national political correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, covering national politics for The New York Times, writing for the feature and national staffs of The Washington Star and working in the Washington Bureau and city room of The Buffalo Evening News. He has served on the Editorial Board of the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, on the Alumni Council and on the Board of Visitors of the Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences, was an alumni interviewer and admissions District Enrollment Director. He serves as Trustee at Dartmouth College.

At Dartmouth, he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, was a member of the Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity and was selected a James Reynolds Scholar for graduate study at Cambridge University, England. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Dilemmas in American Politics, a series of scholarly books published by Westview Press. He was awarded the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of national politics and the Washington scene.

Dr. Jean Bethe Elshtain received her PhD in politics from Brandeis University with a dissertation entitled “Women and Politics: A Theoretical Analysis.” Dr. Elshtain has been visiting professor at Yale University, Oberlin College, Smith College ,and Harvard University. From 1973 to 1988 Professor Elshtain taught at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst; from 1988 to 1995 she taught at Vanderbilt University. Since 1995 she has been on the faculty of the University of Chicago where she is currently Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics in the Divinity School. Professor Elshtain also teaches in the Department of Political Science and the Committee on International Relations.

William McGurn is the Chief Editorial Writer for The Wall Street Journal. He began his career as the managing editor at the American Spectator. In 1989, he moved to National Review where he was the Washington Bureau Chief until 1992. From 1992 to 1998, McGurn served as the senior editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review, before moving to The Wall Street Journal in 1998. He holds a B.A. in philosophy from Notre Dame.

Stephen L. Carter is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale, where he has taught since 1982. Among his courses are law and religion, the ethics of war, contracts, evidence, and professional responsibility. Among his books on law and politics are God’s Name in Vain: The Wrongs and Rights of Religion in Politics; Civility: Manners, Morals, and the Etiquette of Democracy; The Dissent of the Governed: A Meditation on Law, Religion, and Loyalty; The Confirmation Mess: Cleaning up the Federal Appointments Process; The Violence of Peace: America’s Wars in the Age of Obama; and The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion. Professor Carter writes a column for Bloomberg View and is a regular contributor to Newsweek and The Daily Beast. He blogs about professional football for the Washington Post. Professor Carter was formerly a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, as well as for Judge Spottswood W. Robinson, III, of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He is a graduate of Stanford University and Yale Law School, and has received eight honorary degrees.

Jeffrey Rosen is the legal affairs editor at the New Republic. Rosen is a graduate of Harvard College, Oxford University, and Yale Law School.