James Ceaser is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Harry F. Byrd Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia and director of the Program for Constitutionalism and Democracy. He is the author of several books on American politics and American political thought, including Presidential Selection (Princeton University Press, 1979), Reconstructing America (Yale University Press, 1997), and Nature and History in American Political Development (Harvard University Press, 2006) ), and Designing a Polity (Rowman and Littlefield, 2010). He has held visiting positions at Harvard University, Princeton University, Oxford University, the University of Basel, and the University of Bordeaux. He is a frequent contributor to the popular press, most recently the Weekly Standard and the National Review.

Robert P. George is the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. A member of the President’s Council on Bioethics, he served as a presidential appointee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights and as a judicial fellow at the U.S. Supreme Court. A graduate of Swarthmore College and Harvard Law School, he holds a doctorate in the philosophy of law from Oxford University and several honorary degrees. He is the author or coauthor of five books and editor of nine more. His articles have appeared in the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the Review of Politics, the Review of Metaphysics, and other scholarly journals, as well as in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard, and National Review. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Harvey C. Mansfield is the Carol G. Simon Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government at Harvard University, where he studies and teaches political philosophy. He has written on Edmund Burke and the nature of political parties, on Machiavelli and the invention of indirect government, in defense of a defensible liberalism, and in favor of a constitutional American political science. Mansfield is a recipient of the 2011 Bradley Prize. He was chairman of the government department from 1973 to 1977, has held Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, and was on the Advisory Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has rarely left Harvard since his arrival in 1949, receiving an AB in 1953 and a PhD in 1961; he has been on the faculty since 1962.

Clifford Orwin is a professor of political science, classics, and Jewish studies at the University of Toronto. He is a regular contributor to the Globe and Mail, Canada’s national newspaper of record, and to numerous American publications. He is the author of The Humanity of Thucydides (Princeton University Press, 2nd ed., 1997) and coeditor and coauthor of The Legacy of Rousseau (University of Chicago Press, 1997); he has also written dozens of articles on classical, modern, contemporary, and Jewish political thought. He is currently completing a book for the general reader entitled Deeply Compassionate. He received his BA in history from Cornell University and his MA and PhD in political science from Harvard University and has taught as a visitor at Harvard and Chicago as well as in Jerusalem, Paris, and Lisbon.