Sohrab Ahmari, Organizer.
Sohrab Ahmari is a founder and editor of Compact magazine. Previously, he spent nearly a decade at News Corp., as op-ed editor of the New York Post and as a columnist and editor with the Wall Street Journal opinion pages in New York and London. In addition to those publications, his writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Spectator, Times Literary Supplement, Dissent, and The American Conservative, for which he is a contributing editor. His books include From Fire, by Water (Ignatius, 2019) and The Unbroken Thread (Convergent/Random House, 2021).

Rachel Bovard

Rachel Bovard is senior director of policy at the Conservative Partnership Institute and a cohost of the Edmund Burke Foundation’s NatCon Squad podcast. She has worked on Capitol Hill for more than a decade and co-authored Conservative: Knowing What To Keep (Fidelis Books, 2019) with Sen. Jim DeMint.

John A. Burtka IV

John A. Burtka IV is president and chief executive officer of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. He graduated from Hillsdale College with degrees in French and Christian Studies and earned a graduate degree in theology from La Faculté Jean Calvin in Aix-en-Provence, France. Burtka began his career at ISI, where he served as a development officer. He returned to ISI after four years at The American Conservative, where he served as executive director and acting editor. He has appeared on Fox News and Fox Business and written for The Washington Post, the Richmond Times-Dispatch, First Things, The American Mind, and the Intercollegiate Review, among other publications. He has been a Lincoln Fellow at the Claremont Institute and has participated in academic fellowships at Washington College and the Trinity Forum.

Patrick J. Deneen

Patrick J. Deneen is a professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame. His books include Why Liberalism Failed, The Odyssey of Political Theory, Democratic Faith and a number of edited volumes. He lives in South Bend, Indiana.

Scott Hahn

Scott Hahn is the Fr. Michael Scanlan Professor of Biblical Theology and the New Evangelization at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, where he has taught since 1990. He is the founder and president of the St. Paul Center, an apostolate dedicated to teaching Catholics to read Scripture from the heart of the Church. He is the author or editor of more than 40 popular and academic books, including bestselling titles Rome Sweet Home, The Lamb’s Supper, and Hail Holy Queen. His most recent titles include The Creed and The Fourth Cup. He is the editor of the academic journal Letter & Spirit: A Journal of Catholic Biblical Theology.

Josh Hammer

Josh Hammer is the opinion editor of Newsweek and a syndicated columnist. He is also a research fellow at the Edmund Burke Foundation and cohosts its NatCon Squad podcast. A constitutional attorney by background and former federal law clerk, Hammer is a frequent commentator and campus speaker on political, legal, and cultural issues.

Anne Hendershott

Anne Hendershott is professor of Sociology and director of the Veritas Center for Ethics in Public Life at Franciscan University of Steubenville, where she has taught since 2013.  Formerly a tenured professor of Sociology at the University of San Diego from 1993-2007, she also served as director of the Politics, Philosophy, and Economics Program at the King’s College in New York City from 2007 until 2013.  She still serves at King’s as a distinguished visiting professor of Urban Studies. A contributor to the op-ed pages of newspapers including The Wall Street Journal, Washington Examiner, USA Today, and the San Diego Union-Tribune, she also has published articles in City Journal, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside HigherEd, Human Life Review, National Review, American Spectator, and Catholic publications including Catholic World Report and Crisis Magazine. She is the author of seven books including The Politics of Envy, Renewal, The Reluctant Caregivers, Status Envy, The Politics of Deviance, The Politics of Abortion, and Moving for Work and she is currently working on a new book on the “faithful few” Catholic colleges and universities.

Mary Imparato

Mary Imparato is assistant professor and chairwoman of the politics department at Belmont Abbey College. She studies political theory, law, and American politics, with research interests in religion and politics, liberty and authority, philosophy of law, Catholic social teaching, and the thought of Saints Augustine and Thomas Aquinas.

Michael Lind

Michael Lind is the author of more than a dozen books of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry, including The Next American Nation and Land of Promise. He has been an editor or staff writer for The New Yorker, Harper’s, The New Republic, and The National Interest. He has taught at Harvard and Johns Hopkins and is currently a professor of practice at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.

Gladden Pappin

Gladden Pappin is an associate professor of politics at the University of Dallas. He is also the cofounder and deputy editor of American Affairs, as well as senior adviser and permanent research fellow at the University of Notre Dame’s de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture. He received his bachelor’s in history (2004), and his master’s and doctorate in government (2012), all from Harvard University, where his undergraduate thesis received the Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize. He lives in Dallas, Texas.

Darel E. Paul

Darel E. Paul is professor of political science at Williams College and author of From Tolerance to Equality: How Elites Brought America to Same-Sex Marriage, among other books.

Chad Pecknold

Chad Pecknold received his doctorate in theology from the University of Cambridge and has since 2008 been a professor of political theology at the Catholic University of America in Washington. He is the author or editor of several books, including Christianity and Politics: A Brief Guide to the History, and is an internationally recognized expert in the relationship between the Catholic Church and political communities. He is a regular contributor to First Things, and his columns have also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, National Review and the New York Post. He was chairman of the Academy of Catholic Theology from 2016 to 2012 and is a fellow of CUA’s Institute for Human Ecology. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia.

R.R. Reno

R.R. Reno, the editor of First Things, a journal of religion and public life, serves on the board of advisers of the Edmund Burke Foundation, the sponsor or the 2019 National Conservatism Conference. After earning his doctorate in religious studies from Yale, he taught theology at Creighton University for 20 years. His previous books include Genesis: A Theological Commentary, Fighting the Noonday Devil, and Resurrecting the Idea of a Christian Society. He lives with his wife in New York City.

Matthew Schmitz

Matthew Schmitz is a founder and editor of Compact magazine. Previously, he was a senior editor of First Things. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Tablet, and The American Conservative, for which he is a columnist. He is the recipient of a Lincoln Fellowship from the Claremont Institute and a Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship from The Fund for American Studies. He holds an A.B. in English from Princeton University and is a native of O’Neill, Neb.

Patrick J. Smith

Patrick J. Smith is an attorney in private practice in Bedford, Indiana, the founder of the Semiduplex blog and a frequent contributor to The Josias.

J.D. Vance

J.D. Vance is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from Ohio and author of the bestselling memoir Hillbilly Elegy. Vance grew up in the Rust Belt city of Middletown, Ohio, and the Appalachian town of Jackson, Kentucky. He enlisted in the Marine Corps after high school and served in Iraq. A graduate of the Ohio State University and Yale Law School, he has contributed to National Review and The New York Times. Vance lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, with his family.

Adrian Vermeule

Adrian Vermeule is the Ralph S. Tyler, Jr., Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School and a council member of the Administrative Conference of the United States. Before coming to Harvard, he was the Bernard D. Meltzer Professor of Law at the University of Chicago. He is the author or co-author of 11 books, most recently Common Good Constitutionalism (2020). He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012.