Faculty

Robert BARTLETT

Boston College

Robert C. Bartlett is a graduate of the University of Toronto and holds an MA in Classics and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Boston College.   Read More

Mark BLITZ

Claremont McKenna College

Mark Blitz (A.B. and Ph.D. from Harvard University) is Fletcher Jones Professor of Political Philosophy, Director of the Henry Salvatori Center, and Chairman of the Department of Government at Claremont McKenna College.  Read More

Paul CANTOR

University of Virginia

Paul Cantor is the Clifton Waller Barrett Professor of English at the University of Virginia.  Read More

James CEASER

University of Virginia

James W. Ceaser is Harry F. Byrd Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, where he has taught since 1976, and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution.  Read More

Tobin CRAIG

Michigan State University

Tobin L. Craig is assistant professor in the Political Theory and Constitutional Democracy major and the Science, Technology, Environment, and Public Policy specialization (STEPPs) at James Madison College, Michigan State University.  Read More

Christopher DEMUTH

Hudson Institute

Christopher DeMuth is a Distinguished Fellow at Hudson Institute in Washington, DC.  Read More

Daniel DISALVO

City College of New York

Daniel DiSalvo is an assistant professor of political science at The City College of New York-CUNY and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute's Center for State and Local Leadership.  Read More

Michael DORAN

Brookings Institution

Mike Doran, senior fellow in the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution and previously a vsiting professor at New York University, is an academic expert on US policy toward the Middle East.  Read More

Bryan GARSTEN

Yale University

Bryan Garsten is Professor of Political Science at Yale University.  Read More

William KRISTOL

The Weekly Standard

William Kristol is founder and editor of The Weekly Standard, a journal of politics and ideas located in Washington, D.C.  Read More

Ralph LERNER

University of Chicago

Ralph Lerner is Benjamin Franklin Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago.   Read More

Yuval LEVIN

Ethics and Public Policy Center

Yuval Levin is the editor of National Affairs.   Read More

Alan LEVINE

American University

Alan M. Levine is an Associate Professor of political theory in the Department of Government in the School of Public Affairs at American University and founding Director of AU’s Political Theory Institute.    Read More

Christopher LYNCH

Carthage College

Christopher Lynch is Associate Professor of Political Science and Great Ideas: Intellectual Foundations of the West at Carthage College, where he serves as chair of the Interdisciplinary Studies Division.  Read More

Bill MCCLAY

University of Tennesee

Wilfred M. McClay has been SunTrust Bank Chair of Excellence in Humanities at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga since 1999.

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Diana SCHAUB

Loyola University Maryland

Diana J. Schaub, 2011-12 Garwood Teaching Fellow, Department of Politics, Princeton University, is professor of political science at Loyola University Maryland and a member of the Hoover Institution's task force on The Virtues of a Free Society.    Read More

Nathan TARCOV

University of Chicago

Nathan Tarcov is Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Political Science, the Committee on International Relations, and the College at the University of Chicago, where he received the Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.  Read More



speakers

David BROOKS

David Brooks is an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times.  Read More

Rep. Tom COTTON

Tom Cotton represents the Fourth Congressional District of Arkansas in the United States House of Representatives.  Read More

Thomas DONNELLY

Thomas Donnelly is the director of Center for Defense Studies at the American Enterprise Institute.  Read More

William GALSTON

William Galston is the Ezra K. Zilkha Chair in Governance Studies and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.  Read More

Kimberly KAGAN

Dr. Kimberly Kagan is the founder and President of the Institute for the Study of War, a non-profit, non-partisan public policy research organization in Washington, DC.  Read More

Charles KRAUTHAMMER

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and named by the Financial Times the most influential commentator in America, Krauthammer writes a syndicated column for the Washington Post for which he won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary.  Read More

Harvey MANSFIELD

Harvey C. Mansfield, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Government, studies and teaches political philosophy.  Read More

Charles Murray

Charles Murray is a political scientist, author, and libertarian.  Read More

Amb. Victoria Nuland

Ambassador Victoria Nuland was named Department Spokesperson in May 2011.  Read More

Walter REICH

Walter Reich is the Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Professor of International Affairs, Ethics and Human Behavior, and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, at The George Washington University; a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; and a former Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.  Read More

William Schambra

William A. Schambra is the director of the Hudson Institute's Bradley Center for Philanthropy and Civic Renewal.   Read More

Gary SCHMITT

Gary Schmitt is director of AEI's Program on Advanced Strategic Studies. He is a former staff director of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and executive director of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, the White House.  Read More

Juan WILLIAMS

Juan Williams is one of America's leading political writers and thinkers.  Read More

Robert Woodson

Robert L. Woodson, Sr. is Founder and President of the Center for Neighborhood Enterprise.  Read More