Rod DREHER
is the author of Live Not By Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents, one of the fastest-selling Christian titles of 2020. He also wrote one of the best-selling books of 2018, The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation. He is a senior editor at The American Conservative, and has written and edited for Touchstone, the New York Post, The Dallas Morning News, National Review, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, the Washington Times, and the Baton Rouge Advocate. Rod's commentary has been published in The Wall Street Journal, Commentary & The Weekly Standard, among other publications. He is a contributing editor of Touchstone.
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R. R. RENO
is editor of First Things.

Adam MACLEOD
is Professor of Law at St. Mary’s University and Research Fellow of the Center for Religion, Culture and Democracy. A co-editor of Christie and Martin’s Jurisprudence, he has authored three other books, dozens of scholarly articles, more than one hundred essays and book reviews, opinion pieces in the Washington Post, Washington Times, National Review Online, and local newspapers, and amicus curiae briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court and state supreme courts. He has been a research fellow at Princeton University and George Mason University, a special Deputy Attorney General of Alabama, and a law clerk to state and federal judges. He currently serves as a trustee of the American Anglican Council and as a legal staff officer in the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary.

Ken MYERS
is the host and producer of the Mars Hill Audio Journal. Formerly an arts editor with National Public Radio, he also serves as music director at All Saints Anglican Church in Ivy, Virginia. He is a contributing editor of Touchstone.
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Michael HANBY
is an Associate Professor of Religion and Philosophy of Science at the John Paul II Institute at the Catholic University of America. He has also taught at Baylor University and Villanova University. He is the author of two books, most recently No God, No Science? Theology, Cosmology, Biology (2013). A collection of essays provisionally titled On Being . . . Human, Catholic, American should appear sometime in 2023 . Dr. Hanby's work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, First Things, and The Federalist, as well as other magazines and numerous academic journals. He has been deeply involved in the movement to renew Catholic education and co-authored the curricula for two schools.
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R. V. YOUNG
is Professor of English Emeritus at North Carolina State University, and a former editor of Modern Age: A Quarterly Review. He is the author of Shakespeare and the Idea of Western Civilization (Catholic University of America Press). He and his wife are parishioners at St. Ignatius of Antioch Church in Tarpon Springs, Florida. They have five grown children, fifteen grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. He is a senior editor of Touchstone.
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Brad LITTLEJOHN
(Ph.D, University of Edinburgh) is Founder and President of the Davenant Institute, and serves as a Fellow in the Evangelicals in Civic Life Program at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. He is the author of five books, including Called to Freedom: Retrieving the Liberty of a Christian in an Age of License. His academic research has focused on the thought of Anglican theologian Richard Hooker, as well as topics in Christian ethics and political theology. He also writes for numerous popular outlets in Christian thought and current affairs, such as First Things, National Affairs, and WORLD.

Thomas BUCHANAN
is the George W. Laird Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Delaware. He has studied at UCSD, Northwestern University and MIT, and has held visiting professorships at the University of Western Australia and the University of Aix-Marseille in France. He has held many academic administrative positions, including department chairman, deputy dean and institute director, as well as national leadership positions such as president of the American Society of Biomechanics and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Applied Biomechanics. He is a senior editor of Touchstone.
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Douglas FARROW
is Professor of Theology and Ethics at McGill University in Montreal and sometime holder of the Kennedy Smith Chair in Catholic Studies. Before coming to McGill he taught in the U.K. at King's College London. His recent books include Ascension Theology; Desiring a Better Country; Theological Negotiations; and 1 & 2 Thessalonians in the Brazos series. Professor Farrow received a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee medal for his contributions to public discourse on social issues. He writes actively on public affairs, from a theological perspective, at douglasfarrow.substack.com.
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Patrick Henry REARDON
is pastor emeritus of All Saints Antiochian Orthodox Church in Chicago, Illinois, and the author of numerous books, including, most recently, Out of Step with God: Orthodox Christian Reflections on the Book of Numbers (Ancient Faith Publishing, 2019). He is a senior editor of Touchstone.
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