contentions—foreign policy, American politics, international affairs, Israel and the Middle East, and more. Below is the list of contributors past and present.

Edward Alexander’s most recent books are Robert B. Heilman: His Life in Letters (University of Washington Press) and Lionel Trilling and Irving Howe: A Literary Friendship (Transaction Publishers).

David Billet is assistant editor of COMMENTARY.

Max Boot is a senior fellow in national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today (Gotham).

Ted R. Bromund is Margaret Thatcher Senior Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom.

Daniel Casse is senior director of the White House Writers Group, a public policy communications firm.

Gordon G. Chang writes widely on China and North Korea and is the author most recently of Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World (Random House).

Linda Chavez, the author of An Unlikely Conservative (2002) and other books, is the chairman of the Center for Equal Opportunity.

Francis Cianfrocca, a businessman and investor based in New York City, is the CEO of Bayshore Networks, LLC.

Kejda Gjermani is assistant online editor of COMMENTARY.

John Steele Gordon is the author of An Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power

Abe Greenwald is policy advisor and online editor at the Foreign Policy Initiative.

James Kirchick is on the editorial staff of The New Republic and is a columnist for the Washington Blade and the Washington Examiner.

Jason Maoz is senior editor of The Jewish Press.

Yascha Mounk is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at Harvard University and editor of The Utopian magazine

Sam Munson’s work has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, the New York Times Book Review, COMMENTARY, and numerous other publications.

Emanuele Ottolenghi, who was born in Bologna, Italy, is the director of the Transatlantic Institute in Brussels.

John Podhoretz is editor of COMMENTARY.

Norman Podhoretz has been writing for COMMENTARY for 56 years.

Noah Pollak, a graduate student in international relations at Yale University, previously worked at the Shalem Center in Israel and as assistant editor of the Middle East Quarterly.

Jennifer Rubin is an attorney and journalist living in Virginia.

Ira Stoll is author of “Samuel Adams: A Life” (Free Press, 2008).

J.G. Thayer is a freelance writer living in New Hampshire  and the former editor of wizbangblog.com.

Jonathan Tobin is executive editor of COMMENTARY.

Michael J. Totten is a freelance writer and blogger who has reported from Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, Libya, Cyprus, Turkey, and Israel. His work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, LA Weekly, Reason, and numerous other publications.

Peter Wehner served as deputy assistant to the President and Director of the Office of Strategic Initiatives in the White House. He is now a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

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