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 is co-editor, with Paul Bogdanor, of The Jewish Divide over Israel: Accusers and Defenders.

Michael Auslin, formerly professor of history at Yale, is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.

David Billet is the 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 teaches history and is associate director of International Security Studies at Yale.

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).

David Gelernter is a professor of computer science at Yale and a national fellow of the American Enterprise Institute.

Abe Greenwald is assistant online editor of COMMENTARY.

Michel Gurfinkiel, an author and editor, is the president of the Jean-Jacques Rousseau Institute in Paris.

Hillel Halkin, who lives in Israel, is a columnist for the New York Sun and the author most recently of A Strange Death (Public Affairs).

Victor Davis Hanson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the author most recently of A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War (Random House).

Arthur Herman, who has taught history at George Mason University and Georgetown University, is the author of The Idea of Decline in Western History and To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World, among other books.

Kay S. Hymowitz, a contributing editor of City Journal, writes frequently for COMMENTARY on social and cultural issues.

Daniel Johnson is a contributing editor at the New York Sun and was formerly a columnist and senior editor for the Times (London) and Daily Telegraph.

Efraim Karsh is head of Mediterranean Studies at King’s College, University of London.

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

Reese Kwon is a writer living in New York.

Yuval Levin was formerly chief of staff of the President’s Council on Bioethics and has served on the White House domestic-policy staff. He is now a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

Michael J. Lewis teaches the history of art and architecture at Williams.

Jason Maoz is senior editor of The Jewish Press.

Wilfred M. McClay, who holds the SunTrust Chair of Excellence in the Humanities at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, will be spending the spring 2007 semester as senior Fulbright lecturer in American history at the University of Rome. His most recent book is Figures in the Carpet: Finding the Human Person in the American Past (Eerdmans).

Sam Munson is online editor of COMMENTARY.

Joshua Muravchik is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He is working on a book profiling Muslim and Arab democrats.

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

John Podhoretz is the editorial director of COMMENTARY.

Norman Podhoretz, who was editor-in-chief of COMMENTARY from 1960-1995, is now editor-at-large and an adjunct fellow of the Hudson Institute. His new book, World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism, is now available everywhere.

Noah Pollak is a Jerusalem-based editor of Azure, the journal of the Shalem Center.

Nidra Poller is an American novelist living in Paris since 1972. She writes a weekly column as Paris editor of Pajamas Media,and her articles and essays have appeared in COMMENTARY, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Washington Times, and City Journal.

David Pryce-Jones has written about systems of belief from Nazism and Communism to Islam. Among his books are The Closed Circle and The Strange Death of the Soviet Empire. His latest book is Betrayal: France, the Arabs, and the Jews (Encounter Books). He is also the author of novels, and since 1999 he has been a senior editor of National Review.

Jennifer Rubin is an attorney and journalist living in Virginia.

Gabriel Schoenfeld is the senior editor of COMMENTARY.

Kevin Shapiro, a research fellow in neuroscience and a student at Harvard Medical School, writes frequently for COMMENTARY on scientific issues.

Fred Siegel, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and former Professor at the Sorbonne, is the author of “Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York, and the Genius of American Life” from Encounter books.

Harry Siegel is a political journalist living in New York.

Saul Singer is editorial page editor and author of the weekly column “Interesting Times” for the Jerusalem Post. His book, Confronting Jihad: Israel’s Struggle and the World After 9/11, was published in 2003 (Cold Spring Press).

Khaled Abu Toameh is a veteran Jerusalem-based journalist specializing in Palestinian affairs.

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.

Eric Trager is a Ph.D. student in Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, where he focuses on the Middle East. He was a 2006-2007 Islamic Civilizations Fulbright Scholar, based in Cairo, Egypt.

Arthur Waldron is Lauder Professor of International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania and Vice President of the International Assessment and Strategy Center in Washington, D.C.

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.

Ruth R. Wisse teaches Yiddish and comparative literature at Harvard. Her new book, Jews and Power, is now available from Schocken. For a video interview with Wisse, click here.